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Maya2001 -> RE: The Dog Whisperer (11/10/2007 6:06:11 PM)
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Okay I am the dissenter here [:D]
Sorry but as owner of 4 dogs plus have been raising dogs since a child, and after 40 years of watching how dogs interact together in a pack, I say the man if full of crap and does not understand dominance nor the alpha roleand he confuses aggression with dominance, his concept lies along the line in human term as the alpha being of machoman bully or wife batterer who rules through fear of abuse and has series of very strict unbending rules to follow, and breach of them then discipline is dished out regardless of reason. Most alpha dominant dogs rarely ever use agression, they are the most intelligent of the pack they use their brains instead to resolve and rarely need agression because they have earned the love and respect of their pack, so the pack is happy to follow and obey, there is very little rules but the ones they deem important are enforced they allow leeway, they do not always expect to have the favorite bed or thru a doorway first, but the others will sense when the alpha needs and move out of the way to allow the alpha to have, the alpha is fair in dealings with underling and is tolerant , and if one of the others has strong skills in a certain area they all that dog to take over that task without interference. My former alpha dog passed away almost 5 years ago and she was the one that taught me a lot about what dominance means, when she passed away the male dog grieved for several months afterward he had to assume control of the pack but he does not have that natural inborn talent to lead there he is constantely griping at the others he tries to lay claim and rights with growls and snaps and chasing but the others view him as unfair and weak therefore challenge him, something that Callie had problems with because the pack respected her as the leader and it was easy to bring in foster dogs then she would spend all of 2 minutes letting them know she was the boss sometimes with one alpha roll that would be all that is took they would then watch her for cues on what to do for what was allowed or not, but Callie accept me as her dominant she more of less took over the role of general in charge of the troops which freed up my reponsibilities, with the male in charge of the pack that is not the case I still have to oversee and be the peacekeeper. that is another problem with Cesar Millan he is so into the macho headspace he tends to believe that only males are alphas, but from all the dogs I have seen through my years of rescue/placemnt and fostering I have seen about equal numbers and if a dominant male and female are placed together in a pack they split the duties, but when it comes to something they both want the male will tend to give way to the female rather than start a fight
true natural dominance can be found in world leaders such as J F Kennedy, Gandhi, Suddam Hussein, Winston Churchill, where G W Bush may be the powerful agressive bully but he is not a true natural dominant leader, the difference is the respect that comes from below him. where you have bullies leading or ineffective leaders/dominants there is a dissention, strong division amongst the ranks of those below.
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