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Date Posted: 09:06:06 11/05/09 Thu
Author: Ron
Subject: Re: Aggression issues
In reply to: Michelle 's message, "Re: Aggression issues" on 02:25:56 11/05/09 Thu


Just FYI on that "climbing the ladder" thought, some links:

http://blog.boerboels.ca/?p=169
http://doggonesafe.blogspot.com/2009/04/wolf-packdominance-myth.html

Basically, I don't think that's quite right. I think Kerie is more correct, that the dog isn't sure what the hell to do, so he does what comes to mind. He has decided your GSD is in the way, but I don't think I'd read some climb through some fanciful hierarchy into that, just that he really has decided that guy is annoying, and he doesn't see anything significant standing in his way to take him out and reduce the annoyance ("sure, I may not get a treat if a take a run at him, but whatever, I have this annoying dog to kill."). You have to actively tackle the "I can do this, and no-one will stop me" attitude IMHO. If you want to call that dominance, that's fine (but wrong in my opinion) but sometimes the solutions align, so that may be fine.

Sometimes, I think the solutions people suggest for "dominance" are wrong headed and ... odd. For example (from the NILIF church) you telling him who goes through the door first, or who eats first or whatever might wake him up to the fact that you're actually running things, but I don't buy the theory that all this magic symbolism will protect your GSD the next time he appears to be really annoying again. In my opinion you'll have to orchestrate interactions between those two carefully regardless of whatever other NILIF crap people are telling you to do, or else you could still end up with a bad vet bill, or worse.

Just my opinionated opinion. :)
Ron

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  • Re: Aggression issues -- DanD, 23:26:16 11/18/09 Wed
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