Sentences with phrase «idea of the alpha dog»
Current research challenges the idea of the alpha dog.
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The now - outdated dominance theory of dog training was based on the idea that dogs travel in hierarchical (alpha, beta, et al) packs like wild wolves do.
The idea that humans should exert physical control over animals was first widely - popularized in the 1970s in the book «How To Be Your Dog's Best Friend» by the Monks of New Skete, which recommended the «alpha roll» to deal with undesired behaviors.