Hi William first, sorry to hear from your loss of Rollei, that was sad news but when I loaded your Powerpoint presentation in a viewer helper application inside of Outlook instead of Powerpoint, the slideshow did not run and I saw only some photos which did it not make clear to me.
My understanding is that there will be one Alpha, a Beta, lots of Gamma's (the normal members of the group) and an Omega in a "normal" group of human, maybe that is not true for a dog or other animal "pack"? greetings Markus >>-----Original Message----- >>From: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 2:20 PM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: PESO - Dash >> >> >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Markus Maurer" >>Subject: RE: PESO - Dash >> >> >> >>> But it is my understanding that you or your wife should be the "Alpha", >>> not >>> the other dog ;-) >>> greetings >> >>Alpha is a relative term. The dog we just lost was a very strong willed >>Alpha male. We never had problems, since we are even stronger >>willed, but he >>ruled the other dogs with an iron fist. >>Where dog owners run into problems is not providing their animals with a >>consistent pack structure that places the people on top. >>The dog needs this structure to function as a social animal, and if their >>people don't provide it, the dog has no choice but to try to run things >>himself. >>In a home environment with neutered animals, even a strong Alpha is quite >>willing to take a subservient role to his people, since breeding does not >>factor into the dog's behaviour formation, and it is easier to >>let someone >>else run the show. >> >>William Robb >> >>
