Alpha/Pack Leader/Dominance Ideology in Dog Training I recently saw a video of a red-dyed hair “trainer” “dominating” an aggressive, muzzled Akita (I lost the link), and a week or so ago, a video where Cesar Millan snatched a triggered owner resource guarding Dachshund from the owner’s lap and tossed it to the ground (which considering

“Stubborn Dogs” – Fact or Fallacy The term “stubborn” is frequently applied to certain dogs or breeds—sometimes by frustrated dog owners, other times by frustrated dog trainers. But what if we’ve misunderstood the whole idea of stubbornness in dogs? In my experience, labeling a dog as stubborn often misses the point. This mislabeling is especially

Discouraging a Behavior “The Rule Of Three” One Of The Required Colors In The Dog Training Pallette Dogs, like humans, learn best when we see a pattern.  Responding to an undesired behavior and immediately moving on is merely a reaction to a behavior, which at the very least can be confusing, while three times, one