Posted in Alpha dog, Dog Star Daily, Dominance, Ian Dunbar, Jean Donaldson, Karen Pryor, Nicholas Dodman, Sophia Yin, Suzanne Clothier, Turid Rugaas, Uncategorized on Apr 17th, 2010
Tweet Boulder Dog Blog is one year old today and to commemorate the occasion I’d like to share with you Boulder Dog’s greatest hits. Now, there are a few ways we can sniff out the best posts. I could highlight the most popular posts according to the number of views they received from you, my […]
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Tweet The doggie gods smiled on Sadie and me. Celestial kongs aligned. A solution to a challenge that has vexed us for months—walking across a bridge under which Sadie was convinced there lurked a dog-devouring troll–seemingly magically appeared. See the guy on the bridge? He’s not a troll. That’s Ira, Sadie’s dad, and she’s worried that he surely […]
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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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