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!
thank you for the tip :)
You are a walking miracle! I’ve heard of him. The problem is that I’M a beta. Horses shove me into fences. One of my memories of my first wolfhound, Corie, was when I took him to a forest preserve and he REALLY wanted out of the car. He leaped over me but, luckily, I still had his leash. So I’m upside down on the ground with my feet still under the pedals while lapdog Corie tries to get to the woman backing away so that he can lick her all over as he did his persian kitten. And I’m saying to the lady, “You’re not afraid of dogs, are you?”
I took in a rescue Bichon that I didn’t know was there for biting. I used to try to dominate my Cairn by going nose to nose to him. Which is how I got stiches in my lip from the Bichon. I was bitten once more and husband once before we got him emotionally dependent. I still remember my joy when the vet announced that he had become a happy dog. When we lost him, I finally realized that I was the one that had become emotionally dependent in making him that happy dog.