DOMINANCIA EN PERROS, ¿MITO O REALIDAD? | Nuestro Fiel Amigo

Hi, I'm Adrian from our loyal friend, and in today's video we're going to talk about the topic of dominance. Myth or reality? Dominance has been used in recent years to justify many behavioral problems. But is it really appropriate to use this term? Where did it come from? Well, we'll explain all that to you today. Dr. David Elimech, after conducting research on large groups of unrelated wolves in captivity, ended up designating that there was an alpha male and an alpha female. Years later, the same researcher denied this claim because in wolves in the wild, these types of roles did not occur and it was more correct to talk about a breeding pair instead of an alpha pair. Furthermore, these groups are family groups that cooperate with each other. Therefore, the term alpha male is obsolete. These claims, together with certain training television programs, have done a lot of damage to dog training. What has been specifically proven in the case of dogs, both in feral dogs and in owner dogs, is that roles are very flexible, so it is not appropriate to talk about dominance in the case of dogs. In the absence of many studies, we must be very careful when using this type of term. What is the main problem with the term dominance? The main problem is that dominance has been associated with aggression, and that is not the case at all. I will give you some examples that I am sure have been mentioned to you more than once to disprove them. Surely if your dog does not want to get off the sofa and has bared its teeth at you, you have been told that it is because it wants to rise in family status and wants to dominate over you, and this is not true. What is probably happening to your dog is that it is protecting its resources. When a dog raises its velum and bares its teeth, it is because it has previously made other types of appeasement signals which have not been taken into account. And since you haven't taken them into account, the dog stops emitting these types of signals and increases the intensity. Nor does it try to be dominant with you. If it goes out ahead of you through the door, it doesn't have to eat after you. And the characteristic or practice that has been talked about the most regarding dominance is the subject of mounting. The main function of mounting is reproductive, but beyond that it has many other meanings that are not dominance. For example, many times they use it among themselves to relax themselves or to relax the other dogs. In addition to many other possible justifications, the fact that the dog does certain things in certain situations may indicate fear, lack of socialization, insecurity, stress and many other causes, but not dominance. Forget about these types of obsolete terms that, rather than helping the dog, have drastically worsened its emotional health. Do you know what the alpha roll or rollover technique is? You've probably seen this type of technique on many television programs and it consists of putting the dog in a position of learned helplessness on the ground, showing its soft parts. This type of technique is very harmful to both your dog's relationship with you and to your dog's relationship with other dogs. So under no circumstances should you use this type of technique. We must understand our dog's education as a cooperative effort and not as a job between a boss and a subordinate. In this way, your dog's education will be based on trust, not fear. If you contact an education professional who talks to you about these terms as nonsense, that the dog is trying to be dominant over you, that he wants to rise in family status, I recommend that you run away from this professional. And that's it for the video on dominance. I hope you enjoyed it. Don't forget. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel and follow me on my social networks where you will find me as your loyal friend and for the good of dogs. Share this video no.