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Old 03-02-2008, 03:46 AM
Mick Trainer Mick Trainer is offline
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Re: "Pack...Alpha" terms really meaningful?

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Originally Posted by RottsNScotts View Post
I think the problem lies in that people who "get it" about training and working with dogs (or other animals for that matter) usually, at some point, get asked or paid to give people who don't "get it" lessons on how to "get it". Because we communicate verbally, the person who "gets it" has to find some words to try to draw a picture the person who doesn't "get it" can have a hope of understanding. Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn't but it does end up misnaming, limiting, overanalyzing the whole human-dog relationship.
That is one of the greatest things I have ever read here. It could fit so many posts.

Mick.
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