Ian, I forget how much you've influenced me over the past 25 years. The first time I saw you, you talked about dogs jumping up and all the mean recommendations, such as kneeing dogs in the chest, stepping on their hind feet, pinching between their front toes, and correcting with a prong or chain collar. You said something to the effect of, "Why not teach the dog to sit, even when it's excited?" I knew I was home.
Good video. I don’t dominate my dog but he knows I am boss. He is happy when he knows the rules so he knows what he needs to do to please me. He is happy and so am I. Lots of love, be consistent, lots of praise when he does good and make sure he knows his place. Now he has me fully trained so I will bend the rules when he wants me to 🤔. He is my mate and gets treated like one.
I have seen this method work, but I have already seen Dominance training works wherein positive reinforcement has failed because the dogs was intelligent enough to know that it can get rewards when it behaves and it only works as long as the dog is reinforced with treats, but it was too Alpha that none of them methods work until it was put in its place. I don't think one method works with all dogs.
That happens because of poor training. Food rewards can, and - in my opinion - SHOULD be faded. If you don't have strong rapport with the dog, you won't get very far, either.
Thank you so much for sharing your valuable knowledge and research! I came across this after searching for proof of what I heard: "the dominant dog always has the highest sleeping spot." I am grateful that you have dispelled this myth as I have the most interactions with my dogs on the furniture, so bed or sofa -- because adults spend very little time on the floor! I certainly have rules, and use the "off" command, but it's so important to me to get to share my life and frequently interact with them. Thanks again!
Very informative. I recently discover you and I’m loving your knowledge. I have a question. I have had a female GSD for about 1.5 months now. She is 5 months old. She was responding well to training but somewhere in the process I messed up and now she isn’t as interested to train. With the pandemic, has been hard to get her to socialize with other dogs but with lots of patience and love, she has stop barking and launching at other dogs. She is a low energy dog and is not interested in toys nor food. I am growing frustrated because I haven’t been able to find something to get her excited enough to train her. She gives me max 5 mins of attention maybe twice a day which I really try to make the best out of it. That is the background and here is the question or maybe two. What can I do to get her attention? Am I expecting too much from her for the short period of time she has been with me? I think she was abused before I got her because she is terrified when I raise my voice. Please help me! Thank you.
Ian Dunbar has a lot of information and ran (runs?) seminars on dog aggression/behavioural issues and how to manage and remediate them, so I don't think that's a fair assertion. The reality is that you can bully a dog into almost anything, but you aren't correcting the underlying issue. At the same time, you may be setting the dog up to take its aggression out on someone else at a later date, potentially a child or a stranger. Think of all those 'wouldn't hurt a fly' family dogs that 'out of the blue' turn on their owners' kids. Ian goes through the process of how this happens, how it's never out of the blue, and ways to prevent it. I think a lot of people wouldn't recognise a dominant dog if it bit them in the genitals, and even fewer would really know how to forge a healthy relationship with that dog, without actually doing some work to understand why it behaves the way it does. Anthropomorphising dogs and assuming they think the way toxic people do (I'm going to get one over on you / I'm guilty for what I did) are ways in which people completely miss the mark in understanding the way dogs work.
This video: Dominance and alpha behavior doesn't really exist Also this video: Proceeds to explain, literally how the hierarchy works using terms like "top dog" and "middle ranking dog" and dogs ways of climbing up the ladder and asserting themselves. Am I the only one who thinks these people are experiencing cognitive dissonance?
They do. I'm pretty sure, somehow they don't understand the meaning of "dominance" word. I've check dictionary and it reads "influence over others", not being "abusive".
@@Maciek80511 I'm not trying to be a jerk. It seems the problem is with your definitions and negative caveats associated with what you think the words mean. Dogs definitely exhibit dominance.
I think you've misunderstood. He is speaking first of how groups of dogs without human interaction/intervention act, as he researched them formally. In those scenarios, the "top dog" has priority access to scarce resources - which is literally the DEFINITION of dominance - as the others defer to that dog without fighting. Between people and dogs, the old timey recommendations about how to show dominance over dogs as a human are "Mickey Mouse." He is not saying that dogs do not form hierarchies amongst themselves when living with humans. The "top dog" does not need to assert itself using aggression; it is the insecure dog that uses aggressive behavior to control others or get information about the environment. I think we are already dominant over our dogs because we control their access to food, shelter, breeding, and freedom of movement. Our brains are denser and heavier than dogs'. We usually outweigh them. It is not necessary to assert ourselves or train in such a way that makes dogs behave only because they know we can beat them in a fight.
Ian, I forget how much you've influenced me over the past 25 years. The first time I saw you, you talked about dogs jumping up and all the mean recommendations, such as kneeing dogs in the chest, stepping on their hind feet, pinching between their front toes, and correcting with a prong or chain collar. You said something to the effect of, "Why not teach the dog to sit, even when it's excited?" I knew I was home.
Good video. I don’t dominate my dog but he knows I am boss. He is happy when he knows the rules so he knows what he needs to do to please me. He is happy and so am I. Lots of love, be consistent, lots of praise when he does good and make sure he knows his place.
Now he has me fully trained so I will bend the rules when he wants me to 🤔. He is my mate and gets treated like one.
Thank you, yes they do often have us trained well!
Thankyou for sharing this Dr Ian Dunbar has done so much for positive dog training thankyou Sir 🙏
I have seen this method work, but I have already seen Dominance training works wherein positive reinforcement has failed because the dogs was intelligent enough to know that it can get rewards when it behaves and it only works as long as the dog is reinforced with treats, but it was too Alpha that none of them methods work until it was put in its place. I don't think one method works with all dogs.
That happens because of poor training. Food rewards can, and - in my opinion - SHOULD be faded. If you don't have strong rapport with the dog, you won't get very far, either.
Thank you so much for sharing your valuable knowledge and research!
I came across this after searching for proof of what I heard: "the dominant dog always has the highest sleeping spot." I am grateful that you have dispelled this myth as I have the most interactions with my dogs on the furniture, so bed or sofa -- because adults spend very little time on the floor!
I certainly have rules, and use the "off" command, but it's so important to me to get to share my life and frequently interact with them. Thanks again!
So glad I watched beyond the first 30 seconds
Very informative. I recently discover you and I’m loving your knowledge. I have a question. I have had a female GSD for about 1.5 months now. She is 5 months old. She was responding well to training but somewhere in the process I messed up and now she isn’t as interested to train. With the pandemic, has been hard to get her to socialize with other dogs but with lots of patience and love, she has stop barking and launching at other dogs. She is a low energy dog and is not interested in toys nor food. I am growing frustrated because I haven’t been able to find something to get her excited enough to train her. She gives me max 5 mins of attention maybe twice a day which I really try to make the best out of it. That is the background and here is the question or maybe two. What can I do to get her attention? Am I expecting too much from her for the short period of time she has been with me? I think she was abused before I got her because she is terrified when I raise my voice. Please help me! Thank you.
Can we have your dog sounds and use them as a ringtone? That would be great!
Hehe we’ve not had that request before, which sounds are you wanting?
The dog sound killed me! What an articulate, well intentioned, brilliant man!
finally some good unbiased source of information regarding this topic
This works, for subordinated dogs, once you are faced with a dominant dog, these people prefer to just put it down.
Ian Dunbar has a lot of information and ran (runs?) seminars on dog aggression/behavioural issues and how to manage and remediate them, so I don't think that's a fair assertion. The reality is that you can bully a dog into almost anything, but you aren't correcting the underlying issue. At the same time, you may be setting the dog up to take its aggression out on someone else at a later date, potentially a child or a stranger. Think of all those 'wouldn't hurt a fly' family dogs that 'out of the blue' turn on their owners' kids. Ian goes through the process of how this happens, how it's never out of the blue, and ways to prevent it. I think a lot of people wouldn't recognise a dominant dog if it bit them in the genitals, and even fewer would really know how to forge a healthy relationship with that dog, without actually doing some work to understand why it behaves the way it does. Anthropomorphising dogs and assuming they think the way toxic people do (I'm going to get one over on you / I'm guilty for what I did) are ways in which people completely miss the mark in understanding the way dogs work.
This video: Dominance and alpha behavior doesn't really exist
Also this video: Proceeds to explain, literally how the hierarchy works using terms like "top dog" and "middle ranking dog" and dogs ways of climbing up the ladder and asserting themselves.
Am I the only one who thinks these people are experiencing cognitive dissonance?
They do. I'm pretty sure, somehow they don't understand the meaning of "dominance" word. I've check dictionary and it reads "influence over others", not being "abusive".
@@Maciek80511 I'm not trying to be a jerk. It seems the problem is with your definitions and negative caveats associated with what you think the words mean.
Dogs definitely exhibit dominance.
I think you've misunderstood. He is speaking first of how groups of dogs without human interaction/intervention act, as he researched them formally. In those scenarios, the "top dog" has priority access to scarce resources - which is literally the DEFINITION of dominance - as the others defer to that dog without fighting.
Between people and dogs, the old timey recommendations about how to show dominance over dogs as a human are "Mickey Mouse."
He is not saying that dogs do not form hierarchies amongst themselves when living with humans. The "top dog" does not need to assert itself using aggression; it is the insecure dog that uses aggressive behavior to control others or get information about the environment.
I think we are already dominant over our dogs because we control their access to food, shelter, breeding, and freedom of movement. Our brains are denser and heavier than dogs'. We usually outweigh them.
It is not necessary to assert ourselves or train in such a way that makes dogs behave only because they know we can beat them in a fight.
@@Maciek80511 A lot of the training methods used are very aversive. Yeah, they "work" but there is a cost.
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