doomryder · Early Member · 1 points · *
The theory of dominance in dogs has been disproven time and time again, it is by far the biggest misconception in dog behaviour. That is something thats true with wolves (keep in mind that a pack of wolves usually is mostly related to one another so this is similiar to a hierachy in family, although obviously not an exact comparison). Generally stuff like this is thought behavior, the biggest hint to this is that most of the toys are plushies which he brings to his bed (probably thought to not leave them roaming around), only after a bunch of them do they take the traditional toys, which is not that difficult to teach if he already has learnt to bring the plushies, however in both cases of the tug toys you can see him pause and think before deciding to clean them up as well. My guys is that theyre training him to clean up all toys when not playing with them instead of only the plushies.
That being said, it is entirely possible that the dog considers those things his and takes it for that reason, however starting in the secondary socialisationphase dogs dont generalise that easily anymore, meaning that even if that would be the case, odds are low this would turn into other behaviour, but that is impossible to know without some testing and if it would turn out to be problematic, its a very easy thing to correct. But again, this is hypothetical since I'm pretty confident that thats not whats happening here and that this is thought behaviour (especially when looking at the dogs body language).
When its multiple domestic dogs there isnt 1 alpha dog (unless you have an abnormally territorial dog and an abnormally submissive dog), often its as simple as what which dog values. If a dog values toys way higher than the other dog, its not uncommon to try and take it, if the other dog also values it you might get a small nonviolent conflict (usually only a couple of seconds) after which the issue is resolved. However the dog that doesnt value the toy as much might value food or attention more and might get protective over eating first or you greeting him first when you return from work.
If you treat owning a dog as a hierarchical structure and always try to be at the top, the dog will always be waiting to get the upper hand (there have been accounts of those type of owners getting attack by their own dog after falling down the stairs for example). If you treat your dogs in a positive and correct way, they will try to help you instead.
Anyways its late and Im on mobile so I just ranted a bit. Ill proofread and edit it tomorrow of I see it doesnt make sense.
Edit: Added some more context to why I believe this video is a training session and fixed a typo.
Thanks for removing the sarcastic "expert" in your comment.
That being said, it is entirely possible that the dog considers those things his and takes it for that reason, however starting in the secondary socialisationphase dogs dont generalise that easily anymore, meaning that even if that would be the case, odds are low this would turn into other behaviour, but that is impossible to know without some testing and if it would turn out to be problematic, its a very easy thing to correct. But again, this is hypothetical since I'm pretty confident that thats not whats happening here and that this is thought behaviour (especially when looking at the dogs body language).
When its multiple domestic dogs there isnt 1 alpha dog (unless you have an abnormally territorial dog and an abnormally submissive dog), often its as simple as what which dog values. If a dog values toys way higher than the other dog, its not uncommon to try and take it, if the other dog also values it you might get a small nonviolent conflict (usually only a couple of seconds) after which the issue is resolved. However the dog that doesnt value the toy as much might value food or attention more and might get protective over eating first or you greeting him first when you return from work.
If you treat owning a dog as a hierarchical structure and always try to be at the top, the dog will always be waiting to get the upper hand (there have been accounts of those type of owners getting attack by their own dog after falling down the stairs for example). If you treat your dogs in a positive and correct way, they will try to help you instead.
Anyways its late and Im on mobile so I just ranted a bit. Ill proofread and edit it tomorrow of I see it doesnt make sense.
Edit: Added some more context to why I believe this video is a training session and fixed a typo.
Thanks for removing the sarcastic "expert" in your comment.
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