Rooner & Luna's School of Obedience

[Luna]

Originally posted by Rooner

Pack shmack....I don't go by that pack/alpha stuff. It's a buncha doody. Dogs aren't wolves and wolves aren't dogs. They have very different traits and the enviornment wolves and dogs are raised in is much different.

Lemme guess.... you won't feed your dog first either, right? Humans always eat first. You give scruff shakes, too, right? Hmmm... what else? :confused:

Eh... I still love ya, tho. :grin2:

You DO know that dog and wolf DNA is like 99.999999999% the same dont you? Yup, people eat first, go up stairs and through doorways first, he MUST be submissive to the kids and all visitors, and he does all that and is the happiest dog Ive ever seen. I use scruff corrections when they are pups, with my breed its uneffective when the are adults. First I try treat and positive reinforcement. If that doesnt work I go with the choker. If that fails, out comes the prong collar. My dog was particularly dominant when he was young, he took a while to break.

I bet your dogs sleep on the bed, get on the couch, beg for food, run to the door when people are trying to come in, and eat out of the trash.

Yes, I do know that wolves and dogs can mate and have offspring as a result BUT... wolves are different than dogs. They are shyer than the domestic dog. Wolf pups sleep far less than a dog puppy. I met a wolf/dog hybrid. She was very undog-like, very different than a regular domestic dog.

My adult dog will sleep on the leather couch. Why not? What does that hurt? My adult dog will get on my bed during the day to nap or when he gets "spooked" (ex: fireworks), but, he will not sleep at night there. He actually prefers the cold, hard floor even tho he has beds all over the place. When the door bell rings he stands behind me and he greets than goes and lays back down. He will stay and "kiss" depending on if the visitor encourages it. He NEVER gets in the trash. I have a covered garbage anyway. He doesn't beg me for food when I'm eating, he will lay on the floor and wait. When I take him to the dog park to play with the other dog he sits before I unhook his leash. When we are walking on the street and another dog is approaching he will sit and wait as well.... so there!

The one point I am trying to make, tho, is sometimes negative attention is still attention. For example scruff shakes.... before I knew what I was doing I gave my dog a scruff shake.... it's very unnatural and half the time a puppy thinks you're just playing with him/her anyway and depending on the dog you could be setting yourself up for a misplaced aggression problem later in life.