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August 2003 Issue

By Pat Miller

Why Force-Based Training Methods Are Not Advocated

Why you shouldn’t worry about being “dominant” to your dog pack.

Dominance has become something of a dirty word in many dog-training circles, and for good cause. Behaviorists once used the word to appropriately define a relationship between two individuals in a social group. However, over recent decades, the word has been warped and twisted to inappropriately describe an assertive dog’s personality.

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