Alpha Dog Training

Be The Pack Leader

In order to communicate and deal with your dog effectively, you must understand the dog's basic instinctual nature. The dog is a pack animal and each pack has a pack leader, otherwise known as the alpha dog. The alpha dog is the most dominant in the pack and all others submit to him. He eats first, takes a higher position when he sleeps and the alpha pair are the only ones to mate.

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If you want your dog to behave as you desire, it is absolutely essential that you put yourself in the alpha dog position. The alpha position isn't fixed and from time to time the alpha dog may be challenged for his position.

This means that you continually need to position yourself as the alpha dog. You cannot just do it for a week and then think that it will stay the same forever after that.

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As with humans where adolescents start to challenge their parents, so in the pack it's common for adolescents to challenge the alpha dog. You should be aware that this is a time to be wary and to secure your alpha position. Adolescence is around 6 to 14 months.

You should understand that all of your family need to position themselves as more dominant than your dog, not just you.

Meal Times

Meal times are a very significant time when you can make your alpha position clear. Jan Fennel, the Dog Listener, introduced the useful technique of "gesture eating" which she suggests you only need to engage in for a couple of weeks. All human members of the household need to join in with this activity.

The technique is that all family members eat something before the dog is given its meal. You can just use a biscuit or other small item. Have the biscuits on the counter near the dog's bowl, so that it looks like you are taking the biscuits from the dog's bowl. Then when each family member has taken and eaten their biscuit without looking at or talking to the dog, you can place the dog's bowl on the floor.

Note that you should never feed your dog scraps from the table when you are dining. This would be quite contrary to showing your dominance and would also devalue the use of food treats as a reinforcement in training.

Nothing In Life Is Free (NILIF)

As mentioned in the main page for this section, NILIF is a great way to put yourself in the alpha dog position. The dog must not get any attention or affection without first giving something to you such as a desired behavior. All activities are at your instigation not at your dog's. When the dog demands your attention, you just ignore it, looking or turning away. Or you ask it to sit. Once it obeys a command, you can give it attention and affection.

If your dog wants to go outside, you first get it to obey a command such as going to its crate. Only then do you let it out.

These are some of the main points of alpha dog training.

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