![]() Chica was a well-behaved dog, but she was easily discouraged when I tried teaching her something new. I read classic dominance-oriented books by the renowned upstate New York trainers The Monks of New Skete, among others, to teach her I was the leader of her pack, even when that meant stern corrections, like shaking her by the scruff of the neck. Those methods made sense when I raised my last dog, Chica, in the early aughts. ![]() It eschews the old, dominating, Cesar Millan–style methods that were based on flawed studies of presumed hierarchies in wolf packs. This emphasis on socialization is an important element of a new approach to raising the modern dog.
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