Este livro põe em causa os métodos de treino tipo alfa dog.
O livro - que se baseia em investigações científicas,por vezes aborrecidas - procura desenvolver o tema da especificidade da relação humanos/cães.Wolf packs are supposedly despotic hierarchies dominated by alpha wolves. Dogs are believed to behave in the same way in their dealings with humans. Thus training a dog effectively becomes a contest for dominance in which there can be only one winner. To achieve this the trainer must use a variety of punishment techniques to gain the dog’s submission to his mastery...Mr Bradshaw argues that the theory behind this approach is based on bad and outdated science.
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Quem estiver interessado,consulte este artigoDomestication has been a long and complex process,” Mr Bradshaw writes. “Every dog alive today is a product of this transition. What was once another one of the wild social canids, the grey wolf, has been altered radically, to the point that it has become its own unique animal.
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