{"id":166,"date":"2015-10-26T20:53:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T20:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pawcanine.com\/?page_id=166"},"modified":"2025-08-08T13:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:54:20","slug":"dominance-or-miscommunication","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pawcanine.com\/index.php\/dominance-or-miscommunication\/","title":{"rendered":"The Myth about Dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This video will explain why\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">DOMINANCE<\/span>\u00a0is a myth. No, your pooch doesn&#8217;t want to take over your household. He just wants to belong. Please watch this wonderful video that will\u00a0give you a\u00a0true perspective\u00a0on how your dog understands and benefits from a fluid hierarchy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l\/XAQHJN23dAQF5gcXT3ysYwaaP0YUejbmnPKtRAt6WySjgLQ\/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv=OIjMBfhyNDE\"><strong>Tough Love: A Meditation on Dominance &amp; Dogs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OIjMBfhyNDE\"><strong>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OIjMBfhyNDE<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Many trainers will talk to you about dominance, why because they have not kept with new scientific discoveries, they are misinformed and sadly some old school trainers do not know how to train your\u00a0loyal companion\u00a0without using force, pain and fear. As I mentioned before, dogs should be trained in the same manner as a sea lion or other animals, through positive association, following the principle of OPERANT CONDITIONING and the QUADRANT OF LEARNING THEORY.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">People confuse\u00a0their furry friend&#8217;s\u00a0non performance for a rebellion on the dog&#8217;s part, when in fact the poor dog is trying to figure out how to understand human language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">On a human level, it would be like you\u00a0going to\u00a0a foreign country, without any knowledge of the language, traditions or rules?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video will explain why\u00a0 DOMINANCE\u00a0is a myth. No, your pooch doesn&#8217;t want to take over your household. He just wants to belong. Please watch this wonderful video that will\u00a0give you a\u00a0true perspective\u00a0on how your dog understands and benefits from a fluid hierarchy. Tough Love: A Meditation on Dominance &amp; Dogs https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OIjMBfhyNDE\u00a0 Many trainers will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pawcanine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pawcanine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pawcanine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pawcanine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pawcanine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.pawcanine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/www.pawcanine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pawcanine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}