John Bradshaw's book 'In Defence of Dogs' is turning out to be a good read. His basic premise is that domestic dogs are not wolves and therefore don't operate according to the 'dominance' behavioural model favoured by folk like Cesar Milan. According to Bradshaw, a dogs prefered social model is the family group with a mother, father and siblings. A dogs behaviour, he argues, centres around acts of co-operation and through thousands of years of domestication the dog has become hard wired to want to be and co-operate with humans. So when I tell everybody that I am Mac and Kizzy's 'Mum' I don't feel like so much of a nutter now I can back it up with a bit of science! See what the Guardian says about it at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/24/in-defence-of-dogs-review
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