subject: Dominance in Dogs [print this page] Have you ever come across a dominant dog? You cannot boss over a dominant dog. Normally, most of the dominant dogs are quite independent and they are likely to ignore your orders and commands. These types of dogs are leaders of the pack by birth. So you need to make sure that they recognize you as the leader so that you can continue with the training. If you actually want to know how to recognize the dogs then observe the basic behavior of them. A dominant dog would actually display defensive behavior. If you don't allow a dog to do whatever he or she wants to, then it growls or barks at you.
But still you don't need to worry because even they are trainable. You can still make such kinds of dogs obey all your commands when you're actually taking up the training sessions. But first of all, you need to completely understand how they actually behave so that you can train them in a proper way. If you don't know how to handle or behave with dominant dogs, then it would be quite difficult to actually tackle them.
You should not get irritated when these kinds of dogs don't obey your orders. So make it a point that you completely know the basics of training these dominant dogs in a proper way. So it is quite important to completely know the way to handle these kinds of behaviors of dogs so that you can make sure that nothing goes wrong when you're actually taking up the training sessions for them. There is lots of information about how to train such types of dogs on the Internet. It would be better if you can actually go through the information in order to gain a picture about how various types of dogs behave when they actually attend training sessions.
