For a very good guide to all sorts of dog training processes and dog behavior challenges, I use and recommend Clickertraining ...that link goes to the description of this terrific ebook you download immediately, wherever you are! -- Rosana

You may hear a lot about dogs’ dominance these days, depending on what television shows you favor. I’ve been working up to doing an article on dominance and how badly the concept is misused generally. Luckily, two top websites beat me to it so I will just link to them today.

The Association of Pet Dog Trainers is an organization of dog training professionals who advocate and use positive, pain-free methods. I am a member, and you can see their logo and my blurb about the organization at the bottom of every page of this blog. The renowned Dr. Ian Dunbar started this organization some years ago

Well, the APDT has recently issued a position statement about dominance and dog training.  I just went looking for a sentence or two to quote here but really the whole thing is so good that I suggest you go read that wolf are not organized according to dominance, that dogs are not wolves anyway, and much more.

And here is another really interesting article, a blog post with quite a few comments from readers as well: How Dominance Can Make You Dumb.

Happy reading! I welcome comments here, and will approve ones that don’t agree with me only if they are well written and don’t use namecalling. I’ve gotten some of those before, when I blogged about CM. But since I didn’t use his name here, I should stay under the radar of his more rabid fans.  Do I disagree with him completely? No. But significantly. Oops, starting a rant… do read those articles!

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