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Pro-Hunt

When a training program rests on permanently diverting your dog away from its instinct over a prey instead of just briefly turning its attention toward you for proper coordination on a hunting pursuit, you will never get your dog to indulge on its primary disposition which will adversely affect their entire framework. Their misbehavior hinges upon this problem, hence, when they get bored or anxious, they are allured to satiate that restricted instinct by either pillaging whatever is accessible to them, howling or excessive barking. However, coddling to satisfy them on a regular basis with a legitimate hunting treat will then permit them to anticipate another experience with you. On that account, the significance to hunt or indulge in their instinct without the directing, honing and the care of an alpha dog will somewhat be watered-down. They would now, to a greater extent, solicit your company to every hunt they take or whenever that indulgent instinct hits them.  And appropriately so since recent studies show that a dominant characteristic of an Alpha dog is not its prominence over its subordinate. Decades of wildlife observation done by biologists confirm that dogs, like wolves, do not control through aggression; while traveling, they do not take the lead position but stay on the hind end to have a more suitable evaluation; when a subordinate male matures, they do not compete to overthrow the pack leader but simply leave and find a mate to start their own family. What this means, is that the hypothesis that most trainers carry today about a hierarchical model is off base. They have been misled by stories and movies based on an anecdotal premise, not by scientific studies. They liken them with the behavior of horses in a pack that fight for dominance.

Unlike human beings, hierarchal conflict for dominance does not exist among the pack; this is taboo. They do not compete with each other but merely interact by assessing what works and what does not with each interaction. In other words, they simply draw conclusions based on the others’ action. Recall that contrary to human behavior, dogs do not have conscious minds, they do not reason or assume, they simply react to a given circumstance, as noted in our previous article. As a result, the one who knows how to direct them, sharpens their skill and cares for each of them ultimately becomes the Alpha dog. Therefore, to the one that plays that role on a hunting expedition that accompanies the likelihood of gratifying their ingrained impulse to catch prey - earns the title. This is distinct to the cruel and unnatural method of one who dupes a dog with emotional frenzy to permanently divert its prey instinct with an objective of making the dog stay at home politely. Howbeit, in our dog-training world today, the type of training that has been indicated is what is commonly known as positive or modern training, which is distinct to a more severe method known as traditional dominance or punishment-based method. They both differ on the trainer’s leniency and intolerance in meeting the same objective that is to permanently divert the dog’s prey instinct. I however call the method that I am publishing as the ‘Pro-Hunt Training’.     

What does this so-called ‘Pro-Hunt training’ have to do with our modernized world? What does a hunting treat do to man’s ultimate goal in domesticating a dog to live in their home? Well, it is not really far from an objective to keep a pleasant dog in the house, except that the manner that primarily drives them to be orderly is their forbearing temperament and not largely an indulgent sensation. I say that because a hunting treat exposes them to intermittently refrain from enforcing what is due them hastily; a hunting treat makes them use up their intense energy and enthusiasm; and a hunting treat conditions them to treat you as the alpha. More about this in the next article.