Posted in Alpha dog, Behavior, Calm-submissive, Dominance, Dumbinance, Ian Dunbar, Pat Miller, Shock collar, Trish King, Uncategorized on Nov 24th, 2009
Tweet Dominance theory, or dumbinance theory as I prefer to call it, reared its howling head again, this time as a prescription for child rearing—“Becoming the Alpha Dog in Your Own Home.” (As of today, the most popular article in the NYT.) Meet Cesar Millan, the new no-nonsense nanny. Here. In the New York Times. […]
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Tweet Tears, no, make that sobs, shattered my usual I-am-a-rational-person persona. The quesadilla I was eating momentarily stuck in my throat, caught in the crosscurrents of my trying to swallow against erupting emotion that seemed to come out of nowhere. It all began very innocently. Turid Rugaas and I were seated alone at adjacent tables […]
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Tweet Twitter is all a flutter. The now notorious, 2007 YouTube video of Jean Donaldson’s Chow, Buffy, vigorously humping her extended leg on cue, has resurfaced. You can see it here. Reactions to the video when it first appeared were swift and caustic. (And, they are still coming! The last one on YouTube was posted two […]
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