Behavior Consulting, Training, Pet Sitting

“Being the Pack Leader” is Old-Fashioned BUNK

If a dog trainer tells you that your problems with your dog are due to your not being a pack leader, that person has just shown that:

1. They haven’t paid any attention to the research about wolves and dogs.

2. They don’t know much about how animals learn.

3. They probably don’t have any credentials to speak of.

4. They are hanging on to a “sticky” idea just because it sounds right and is an easy sell.

But in any case, they are incorrect. You need to know why, so their ideas don’t hurt your dog.

Check out THIS BLOG by one of my colleagues.

Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf.  — Aldo Leopold

Two different presentations on variations in the development of dogs over time. Both are interesting because of the writing styles.

A map of charismatic canid genomic variation

A genome-wide perspective on the evolutionary history of enigmatic wolf-like canids