It is not casual, indeed that with the resurgence of the «
dominance alpha wolf theory» fueled by Cesar Millans» National Geographic show the «Dog Whisperer» the number of dog bites are one the rise.
Not exact matches
As the writer Saladin Ahmed pointed out, the concept of «
alpha male»
wolves that assert
dominance over their pack through aggression comes from a debunked model of lupine social groups.
This brand of
dominance represents a radical transformation from the snarling
dominance of an
alpha male in a pack of
wolves, or the mouse tyrant lording it over his trembling colony.
The now - outdated
dominance theory of dog training was based on the idea that dogs travel in hierarchical (
alpha, beta, et al) packs like wild
wolves do.