Hello everybody and welcome back to the no bad dogs podcast with me Tom Davis

America's canine educator the podcast where we love live and of course work with dogs

thank you guys so much for listening to me and supporting me and following me along here.

I really do appreciate that.

So today I'm going to talk a little bit about why my plant is dead.

No, not really, but my plan is dead.

That's discouraging, dying.

Anyway, moving forward, I want to talk

about a conversation I just had with one of my online clients

from Arkansas.

It was pretty much the discussion of

primal instincts and when we as dog owners

should be stepping in during these primitive natural type of behaviors.

And so what she was having a problem with, for an example, which is relatable to a lot of other problems that people have with their dogs is we had one female that was mounting the other dogs in a in a dominant way and

dominant is as a term same thing as alpha, that people use a lot, probably overuse in the dog world,

and they kind of just use it and use it and use it.

Don't really know what it means.

Sometimes it's applicable, most times it's not. But so the dog is mounting,

jumping up, putting her chin on the other dogs and you know, yeah I guess being a little

dominant. And so her question was how do you fix that and the answer is is you can't

you cannot fix primal instinctual behaviors and if you do it's it's it's very stressful situation very stressful

process and it's a lot easier to just try to do it the natural way and or try to do it

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