Guarantee Tory was the pack leader. Had trouble housebreaking a Cairn Terrier and brought in a dog psychologist. She suggested domination exercises. I lost.
Have taken the leash of alpha dogs from their owner and demonstrated what alpha behavior looks like. I only do this on one condition and that is that the dog had never displayed aggressiveness, either offensive, or defensive. My guarantee...”if you’ll trust me for five minutes with your dog, on his leash, right in front of you and you are to say nothing during the process, I’ll bring back your dog with a COMPLETELY different personally, because I will demonstrate my alpha status and imprint this on your dog.”
Every time, it is successful.
When I come back to them, the dog is unharmed and almost always prefers to be beside me rather than return to the owner, two feet away. When I’m done, the dog will lay down beside me stare at me and not move as I drop the leash on the ground. I can walk around the dog and it will watch me as I walk around it staring at me, completely oblivious to its owners.
I’ve run into these “furry students”years later and the behavior remains toward me. They remember, even if the owners fall back to their beta roles, which they most often do.
It’s astounding. Not because I’m special, or super smart, or a dog whisperer (though I might be), but because the behavior is simple pack behavior. Once your alpha status is displayed to the dog, it responds as expected.
Studied this when had a chow chow and before “adopted” a guard dog/mountain dog puppy which I knew would grow to over 100 pounds, with 1200psi bite force. I had to learn to imprint and maintain my alpha status very fast.
Cesar Milan has EXCELLENT videos. I learned from him. He walks with twenty or so dogs,off leash and NONE of his dogs walk ahead of him. They all follow him. He imprints his alpha role very well.
Kindly check out his videos!