Humanizing. That’s the word for you who think that dogs have same feelings and thoughts as humans. We actually forget, that dog really is a dog, descend from a wolf with matching 99% gene pool. Instincts and urges are the driving force behind their behaviour, and only man made selective breeding has moulded many breeds bit to a more friendly form.

As a professional dognom , a person trained to train the dogs and their owners, I see problems every day at my work. Biggest problems are with those very nice dog owners, who think their dogs as fellow humans. They don’t want to demand, they try to ask, but with no success. In dog (or wolf) herd power of the strongest rules, and others are happy with it. Like little child, you can’t really give the decision power to the dog. You make the rules and teach the dog that the leader of the pack is happy when he or she is obeyed. So let’s no humanize. Let the dogs be dogs.

-Karoliina Nuutinen
Dognom (licenced dog trainer), Finland