| Re: Introducing dog to pigs?
Oh you gotta laugh.... Someone mentions the word "dog" and suddenly its all about DOMINANCE!
Let me explain something - not everything the dog does is related to its position in the hierarchy. It is nonsense to assume that every dog is dominant, or that every behaviour is a sign of dominance.
Dogs are predators. Guinea pigs are prey. Ta-da! Dominance has nothing to do with it, and nothing to do with teaching them to live together!
Milan is a dog abusing moron quite frankly. His methods are not new and impressive - they are the same old abusive crap, based on complete misunderstanding of dog behaviour, and sold to the public who sadly do not know any better. His "theories" (that are not his original theories anyway) were disproved decades ago, and most modern trainers gave up on them way back then. Milan has even been accused of setting dog training back by decades - as "yank and stomp" and "dominance" bull has come back into dog training fashion.
Sorry - its early - and the dominance myth pushes all those buttons.....  |