Sentences with phrase «fact alpha dog»

However, if you assert that you are in fact the alpha dog, your Presa Canario will treat you like the leader.

While even I was thrown by the fact Alpha Dog juggles both, I still enjoyed most of this movie.

Not exact matches

But we do take them to dog parks, and they DO live with their «parent alpha» until they die, both things are unnatural, so once again, we do have to see how they behave in this captivity or domesticated state and take note on how to handle it better because this is in fact how dogs live with us in reality, just like those wolves in captivity.

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That said, for those of us who have heard again and again that dogs are just domesticated wolves living in a «pack» of humans — and who hasn't heard that more times than you can count, thanks to the popularization of the concept on TV — it might be helpful to learn all the scientific reasoning behind how wolves and dogs are different (and how we misunderstood wolves and their pack interactions for a very, very long time), why those «alpha dog» approaches aren't the best way to relate to your dog (and in fact, can even cause more problems), and why alternate approaches like positive reinforcement and reading the body language of a dog as a dog and not a mini wolf do work.

Alpha is one of those fun words that stick, maybe because it sounds good on tv and makes a fun story in print where we really get to be in control that has nothing to do in fact with how wolves or dogs live.

In fact, one expert told me that every Akita born thinks it is the alpha dog.

A study published in the Journal of Applied Animal Behavior concluded that confrontational training methods such as hitting dogs, intimidating them with punitive force and using techniques of restraint like the «alpha roll» actually do very little to correct dogs» behavior and in fact increase the likelihood that they will be fearful and aggressive.