Tough Love: A Meditation on Dominance & Dogs (bite, training, eating)
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I stumbled over this documentary while looking for something else entirely
Please, do NOT be turned off from watching this by the title. It is about a lot more than dominance. Some of the top dog trainers, wolf specialists, and ethologists today participated in making this documentary. It is a fascinating look at dog behavior, the study of wolves, ethology, and different training methods.
Most poignant is Dr. Sophia Yin, who passed away about a year ago now.
I stumbled over this documentary while looking for something else entirely
Please, do NOT be turned off from watching this by the title. It is about a lot more than dominance. Some of the top dog trainers, wolf specialists, and ethologists today participated in making this documentary. It is a fascinating look at dog behavior, the study of wolves, ethology, and different training methods.
Most poignant is Dr. Sophia Yin, who passed away about a year ago now.
Thank you for this. I'm not done watching it, but the first few minutes...it's like I wrote the script that she was saying. (Except for the "hit on the nose with a stick" part.) I know the bad advice, I know the frustration, I know the struggle, and I know the guilt.
Timely! I just got a brother sister foster with dominance issues, and that is creating some issues in the pack dynamic, along with a day one bite incident (dog to dog, foster was the aggressor, but actually "called off" when I yelled at her, so I am chalking it up to a very firm warning and dominance establishment).
Normally, the fosters have just fallen into the pack at the back of the pecking order after a day or so. These two have a different idea...
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