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Review of Monique Bladder seminar on dogs and dominance

By Canis bonus | Published: 23 January 2015

Review of Monique Bladder’s 22 January seminar about dogs and dominance in Maasland, The Netherlands By Laure-Anne Visele, Jan 2015 Full illustration credits at the end of the post. About the author: certified dog trainer in The Hague I am a behaviour therapist for dogs (Canis bonus, The Hague, Westland, Delft and region) and the co-founder and head trainer […]

Posted in Science | Also tagged alpha, behaviour therapist, behaviour therapy, behaviourist, canine behaviourist, David Mech, dog behaviourist, dogs, dominance, dominantie, dwangloze trainer, force-free training, gedragstherapeut, gedragstherapie, honden, hondenschool maasluis, lecture, lezing, maasland, monique bladder, seminaire, seminar, wolf pack | 6 Responses

New book review out: Dog Sense

By Canis bonus | Published: 17 December 2012

Book review: John Bradshaw’s Dog Sense By Laure-Anne Visele, written Dec 2012. This article is part of my collection of book reviews. AUTHOR: John Bradshaw PUBLISHING YEAR: 2011 SUMMARY: Dog Sense is a giant research literature survey, written in layman’s terms, about dogs’ behaviour through: evolution, domestication, cognitive abilities, emotions, genetics, and training methods. REVIEW It […]

Posted in Dog writing | Also tagged book review, canids, canine behaviour, canine evolution, canis familiaris, Canis lupus, cognitive ethology, comparative psychology, culture clash, dog behaviour, dog evolution, dog sense, domestication, dominance, ethology, gray wolf, grey wolf, in defence of dogs, jean donaldson, literature survey, sensitive period, socialisation period | Leave a comment

Scientific literature on dogs and dominance

By Canis bonus | Published: 9 November 2012

Science popularisation article on domestic dogs and dominance By Laure-Anne Visele, written Nov 2012. Dogs, dominance, and science ‘Writing in the sciences‘ just gave us the greatest assignment: strip down an ethology paper into such a smooth summary that even science newbies are gripped. To hear me talk about dominance in The Doghouse radio show, […]

Posted in Dog behaviour | Also tagged agonistic dominance, alpha dog, alpha wolf, canis familiaris, Canis lupus, dog behaviour, dog vs. wolf, dogs, domestic dog, domestication, dominance, Dominance in domestic dogs: useful construct or bad habit?, ethology, formal dominance, linear hierarchy, misconception, pack, pecking order, resource holding potential, science, wolf | 3 Responses