> You don't need to show brute strength and intimidate your dogs. You need to respect them and teach them to respect and love you. Work with them and show them how to work with you. Dogs don't want to take over the house, as old-think tried to tell us. Dogs look to us to guidance. Positive training is the way to go. I have raised 4 amazing Bouvier des Flandres dogs (a protective herding breed used as police dogs in Europe and some American areas before Mals took over.)
> Carol
Perhaps you need some experience with other breeds.
After decades of raising Borzoi, we got a German Shepherd. She was quite an experience. She seemed to have a obedience instruction manual hard-wired into her brain. All we had to do was remind her of which command we were interested in right now. All summer she patrolled the fence line, while the Borzois lay there and watched her pace back and forth, like doggie television.
Wolves don't look to us monkeys for guidance, and neither do many breeds of dog. At least not without training to do so.
> Dogs don't want to take over the house, as old-think tried to tell us.
Perhaps your dogs don't.
New-think also tries to tell us that canines don't actually have a hierarchical social structure.
New-think is wrong.
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