What is the dominant dog? Some people attribute all bad dog behaviors to “dominance”, while others do not want to use the “dominant dog” label at all. We examine dominance in dogs and present techniques for handling this issue.
Alpha Male or Alpha Female?
An alpha dog is the one that usually takes the lead, controls the resources, and the one that the other dogs defer to. In a multi-dog household, is it more common to have a male or female alpha dog? Which do you think is more common?