Understanding Your Dog

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Understanding Your Dog, is a short documentary exploring our relationship we have with our dogs that has also been nominated for an RTS Award.

It explores how their behaviour can be tracked all the way back to wolves, which Looks upon how they feed and socialise within their social groups and how within dogs we can misunderstand this as being aggressive.

[dracomancer]

i was attacked and mauled when i was 4 years old by a brittney spaniel...she ran out of the unfenced backyard next door and latched onto my face...i was the 7th kid she mauled..did i hate her? no...did i become afraid of dogs? nope...i love all dogs..reason for her attacking? her owners were neglectful idiots...unfortunately that dog was punished for their stupidity by being put down...i am now 32 and i still remember it all and still carry the scars as a reminder of the cruelty of human beings..not of dogs.

[weirddudeize]

I think schools should have a class where somone would teach the kids about dogs. That would be so usefull.

[YourBeingParanoid]

It;s so refreshing to see a human respect the animals rules of interaction. I've had dogs all my life - there's no bad dogs just bad bad humans.

[mysticunleashed]

Before my pups become dogs.  As I feed them I remove food from their bowls as they eat.  I put it back and then take more and put it all back.  Over time the dogs become accustomed  to hands going into the bowl while they are eating.   They do not growl or bite if a child approaches them.  I do this every few days.   My Sheppard would share his food with any child.  Excellent program. 

[liltigerette]

I believe what the "Wolf man" is doing is absolutely Awesome!! We can learn SO much from what he has learned being in the "pack".  I hope he gets some books and instruction information out and we take advantage of his incredible knowledge regarding wolf and dog behavior. Keep up the good word. Bravo!

[MrRikardoe]

There should be a worldwide requirement for somekind of "dog license". Something pretty basic where you have to take a Dog behavior course in order to be allowed to own a dog.

Even more so with bigger breeds.

[callysto_ii]

the only problem with dog is when you see a chihuahua growl and bite it's cute, when you see a pitt bull growl and bite, it's put down, double standards...

[wolffoley]

This is one of the most important piece of information about dog behavior. It's essential as a dog trainer to understand how wolves order their pack. This gives us the essential understanding of how we can best treat our relationships with dogs.
Right On James,
Wolfy :)

[davistran]

I think it's time we realize domesticated dog are NOT wolves, nor are they little human babies. They should be recognized as a species within themselves, a domesticated dog...

[EclipseDagger]

And people think I'm crazy when I growl at my dogs when they do something bad instead of shouting at them. Just yesterday on the daily pack walk my chihuahua growled at a woman so I barked and growled at my dog and he snapped back into shape. The look on the lady's face was priceless. Anyway, the opinion of dogs not being able to be around children, I call BS, my life was saved by the family dog we had when I was 3 or 4. She woke up my mom in the middle of the night when I was having an asthma attack, by the time my mom got to me I was purple.

[KeikoBushnell]

I wish this was mandatory for everyone to watch or just played on everyone’s phone.... and not just people who have dogs either. Good job mister. 🙌🏻

[samduffield]

i like what the wolf guy said regarding eating infront of your dog,  

[monealex]

My little toy poodle intimidated a Rottweiler. Seriously. She ran up to him and started barking and growling like crazy and he whimpered and his ears bent back. I actually felt bad for him. Pit bulls and Rottweilers can be gentle creatures if raised properly. Unfortunately, many of them are not raised correctly. I personally would not get a Pit bull or a Rottweiler because I don't think that I am able to raise one properly.

[linettelow]

This is so valuable a documentary, personality over aesthetics ~ works even with humans.
Thank you for sharing this. I find dogs some of the best, most endearing friends.

[rautaranka]

This is very informative. I've had trouble with my dog being insecure around other dogs, often resulting to him "attacking" for a few seconds and then going back to what he was doing, which is clearly a fearful reaction to an uncomfortable situation. This clarified what signals I need to take into account when meeting other dogs, and stressed the importance of socialisation on dogs, which I strongly agree on. Very good video.

[stefanstefutz]

please more films like that, , , to show and a BIG like from me !!! bravo

[agentfungus]

I fell down a flight of concrete stairs when I was 3 years old and fell upon a broken Windex glass bottle with my face. I still have a scar from that 55 years later. Therefore, all Windex and glass bottles should be banned.

[CameronEly]

That woman in the beginning of the video is very arrogant, in the sense of raising dogs with children. If you raise a dog around people, they aren't going to hurt children. Dogs aren't naturally aggressive, unless they have been abused. I myself have been attacked by dog three times, but I still love and respect dogs, and I know how to train them so the will be ok to be around all types of people.

[siloPIRATE]

11:50 People are staring at scar. * Zooms in closer to the screen * Can barely see it

[tracyvaillancourt]

This video is one of the best I have ever seen regarding the true nature of dogs. I couldn't agree more. I have had several bull terriers and they are the sweetest dogs. Any dog can become un-naturally aggressive from abuse. Dogs should be allowed their NATURAL aggression. It is part of the animal. If you beat a chihuahua it could become un-naturally aggressive and bite the shit out of you. The difference is that a chihuahua can't inflict the same level of damage that a larger dog of any breed can.