Rooted in studies on wolves in captivity by David Mach in the 1970s, it suggested that dogs try to assert dominance over their humans to establish a hierarchy as if to become the “leader of the ...

Asserting dominance over a dog is not the best way to train ... for the more complex relationships between domesticated dogs and humans. Yet, Schenkel’s theory persists even today, where dog ...

This idea is often related to the outdated dominance theory – that dogs will naturally form hierarchies and need an ‘alpha’ leader. But it has no grounding in reality; the thing is, dogs don’t ...