Taking a dominant relationship with your dog is essential to her happiness and her obedience—her “willingness to obey.”
Discover how to establish a dominant role and stay consistent to create trust between you and your dog.
In this episode, you’ll discover another angle to observe your dog training and assess what might cause inconsistent behavior.
Show Highlights
- Devin and Bennie discover that they have been talking about a sub-series within the Back to Basic Series.
- When I say the word Dominance, when it comes to dog training, what does that mean to you, Devin? Christian and Anastasia! 50 Shades of Grey!!
- There are old wives-tales that you have been brought up with make you think there are certain things you can do to create a dominant role.
- Talk goes briefly to the hierarchy and how that plays out within your family and other dogs.
- In the pack, the highest dog in the pack is the most dominant and most trusted. A dog earns this position by proving itself to the others. Once the position has been established, the other dogs look to the dominant dog when making choices. This is what your dog expects from you.
- If you are not consistent or taking a role as the pack leader, your dog will eventually test the boundaries.
- If you are consistent and you are trusted to act, or react, in the same way every time you are creating good communication and trust from your dog.
- The most dominant person in a room is not always the biggest baddest thug around. People hang around others they like and trust.
- When your dominance (trust) is unquestioned, you can do whatever you like with your pack and they will follow or do, without hesitation.
- In “The Stand,” by Stephen King, there are clear lines between good and evil. The people that trust the good leader stick with her and are willing to do whatever is necessary to protect her and carry out her goals. The same is true on the evil side. When the followers believe what the leader says, even though he rules through fear, they follow and obey orders. They believe in his mission and ways to accomplish that mission.
- Once that trust is established, a strong bond forms. It is this bond you are working to accomplish through taking a dominant role and creating trust from your dog.
Homework
An exercise to help you finding where you are in your dog’s mind as far as the dominant is concerned.
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