Defining dogs as family versus pack

Did we throw useful stuff out with the dominance theory bathwater? A vital shift in dog behavior occurred when trainers and behavior consultants everywhere, from all walks, threw out the outdated and debunked theory that dogs are always striving to dominate us. But when we stopped thinking about dogs as living in packs with humans we also stopped talking about them as living in family units with humans, and that is a mistake. So what’s the difference between a pack and a family? What does it mean to be a family? Explore these questions in this episode.