(Part 2) Top products from r/dogswithjobs

Yes, the pup is amazing and adorable. But lately I have really been thinking about how modern did training affects us people. That was all positive, all praised based. It really changes you when you spend hours giving praise. I raise guide dog pups, we do the same "good girl" stuff. I think I'm a better person now, better to other people, because of that.


To be fair this is the message Steve Kuusisto gives in his wonderful Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet's Journey. We went to a talk he gave. We took out service pup with us. One of the in service guide dogs got up to say hi to my sweet baby. Who behaved herself.

Highly recommend reading Cat Warren's book What The Dog Knows. It's about her training her first cadaver dog, and she does a great job weaving in some history and general info.


I finished it two months ago and immediately got my dogs enrolled in scent work classes lol.

u/hoveringintowind is right. Modern wolves and dogs evolved from a common ancestor. Dogs evolved naturally to scavenge our waste. Humans did not begin artificially selecting them until much later. Wolves can also interbreed with coyotes and jackals. All four are widely divergent species that fill different ecological niches. Your position is outdated, like dominance theory. In my lifetime, our understanding of canine and lupine ethology and biology has completely changed.

Source: All Coppinger and Feinstein work, but most seminally, Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior & Evolution

https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Mile-War-Aleutians-Classic-Reprint/dp/0912006838


Thousand Mile War is definitely my recommendation.