Expert reports

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Here you find a mixture of scientists reports and inputs from dog trainers written for a general public.

informative page written by a lot of scientists

similar page - Expert statements about aversive training

Welfare in dog training

Position paper about the „pack leader“ theory and punishment from the American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior:

Position Statement of The Pet Professional Guild:

Blog of Marc Bekoff Ph.D. (Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder):

Review of Andrew Luescher DVM, Ph.D, DACVB submitted to National Geographic:

The Problem of citronella/water collars "get out of my face"

A very good movie from Dr. Sophia Yin about canine science - modern dog training and its scientific fundament.

A lot of well known scientists talk about the danger of dominance based, aversive dog training

Over 370 dog trainers in the whole world joined the - "I don't need to be a packleader" - oder "Ich muss kein Rudelführer sein" project

Dr. David Mech, a famous scientist observing wolves over decades, talks about the misconception of the "Alpha" Wolf

A very good documentary series about how solving severe behavioral problems nonaversive is called: "Dogs - their secret lives".

Victoria Stillwell about positive reinforcement training