Why does a dog not become a leader for a person?

Some owners are so preoccupied with maintaining “leader status” in the eyes of their dog that it resembles paranoia or a delusional disorder. After all, if the dog knew about this concern, it would be very surprised. Simply because there is absolutely no basis for it.

After all, the leader for a dog is not the one who walks through the door first, but the one who provides security and allocates resources.

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So if your dog…

• Doesn’t decide when and where you go for a walk (and she doesn’t have keys to the apartment, does she?)
• Does not determine what and when you will eat (do you still have a refrigerator at your disposal?)
• Doesn’t buy or order groceries or other things (she doesn’t have a card or cash, does she?)
• Does not choose where you will work and what education you will receive (or was it the dog who wrote your resume?)
• Doesn’t manage your time (or does she handcuff you to the radiator?)
• And so on and so forth…

… it is a bit premature to assume that your dog is dominating you.

Well, if your dog distributes the resources, then I have bad news for you. It’s too late for you to “drink Borjomi” and solve the problem with alpha flips or waving a stool.

And if a dog “behaves badly”, it means that something is unfavorable in her life, and something needs to be done about this trouble. But this has nothing to do with “attempts to become a leader and put in place.”

If you want your dog to behave well, we recommend using our video tutorials on raising and training dogs in a humane way!▼