Sentences with phrase «alpha dog hierarchy»
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Since dogs are pack animals and understand the hierarchy of the pack, basic obedience places you in the Alpha, or leadership position.
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We now know that the assumption that dogs form a social hierarchy with an alpha at the top, is flawed.
It was widely believed, until quite recently, that left to themselves dogs form «packs» with a structured hierarchy culminating in the «alpha» or «top dog» that controls all the other dogs.
What is more, the formation of these dog packs was supposedly based on the desire or drive of certain dogs to be the alpha or top dog of the group, and the resulting hierarchy was based on competitive success.
Within the pack their is a hierarchy with the alpha dog in the lead and then a second dog, third etc..