i read about a book recently which argued that we'd got the wolf/dog thing wrong.
The vast majority of domestic dogs are descended from domesticated Eurasian wolves, which are comparatively unstudied (being extinct in much of Western Europe), and not the North American Timber Wolf (genetically v similar). American wolves tend to be much more hierarchical than Eurasian ones, which are more, well, doggy.
So trying to train dogs by thinking about how Timber Wolves behave isn't all that useful.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 15:00, Reply)