Dogs are great. Dogs are the greatest animals on earth. We love our dogs as much as we love our own family and would do anything for our dogs – WHEN! – they are good dogs. Bad dogs are given away to the pound and abandoned on the street.
The difference between bad dogs and good dogs is that good dogs have a leader that disciplines them when needed and rewards them with affection when needed.
Bad dogs have weak owners.
Dogs are not Men. They should not be treated as men, thought of as like men, or held to the same standards as men.
They are dogs and they should be treated as dogs.
No matter how much you personalize a dog it is still not a man, it is a dog. It can never, ever be like a man, possess the characteristics of a man, can never lead man, and should absolutely never be thought of as the boss.
When a dog thinks it’s the boss it is very, very unhappy. A dog’s natural place is subservient to man. It must be led with discipline and love. A dog with no discipline will act out aggressively because it has no guidance. A dog with guidance and discipline is a happy, happy, content dog.
A dog does not have the mental capacity to make the decisions of man.
Your dog will love you until the day you die and will do anything for you, including die for you, but you’ve got to be the leader of your dog. You can never let your dog think it’s the leader.
When the dog think it’s the leader it will begin to constantly test you, it will lash at you, it will growl jealously at other people for getting too close to you, it will walk in front of you instead of behind you, it will walk in doors before you – it will think it owns you and not the other way around.
When your dog does something that pleases you you will reward the dog with attention, affection and possibly a treat.
When the dog does something out of line you will punish the dog with withdrawal of attention, stern correcting, ignoring, or a swat to the behind.
You will never reward the dog for bad behavior. You must never give your dog a treat if it does not explicitly follow your command and your lead.
When you reward the dog when it hasn’t earned it you have reinforced the negative undesirable behavior and now the dog thinks that not only is the behavior acceptable, but that the negative behavior is good.
When you tell your dog to do something (i.e. sit) your dog must sit before it can do anything else. Never, ever tell the dog to sit and then let it walk away. You must make sure that dog complies with your command at all costs.
You are the leader of your dog. You must always walk in front of the dog, never let the dog lead the way. Always walk in doors first, in front of your dog. It is unacceptable for the dog to walk in a door before you.
Follow these rules and your dog will love you more than anything in the world. You will be the entire world to your dog. It will look out the window and wait for you while you are gone, it will be excited beyond belief when you arrive home, and it will covet and do anything for affection.
Your dog will be a happy, happy dog until the day it goes to doggy heaven for it will know beyond a doubt that it had a master who loved it very much and provided it with the guidance, discipline and leadership that it needed so very much.
You can always tell the mark of a man by how his dog regards his word and guidance. If they sit when told to sit, if they don’t eat until he eats, if they joyously follow behind him on the leash you can be sure he knows how to properly guide them. And you can be sure that his dog loves him to death.
Dogs can make men very, very happy. We love to spend time with our good dogs. But a bad dog can be a miserable burden.
A dog can be an angel or a demon.
All a good dog wants to do is please its owner.
All a bad dog wants to do is control, and act out aggressively and viciously.
Thankfully now we know there is a way to turn many bad dogs into the good dogs that we love very much.
One man’s nightmare dog is another mans love sick puppy.
Unfortunately there are many, many bad dogs that are too far gone and cannot be helped. They have had no positive guidance and have had free reign to be bad dogs, have never received punishment for their bad behavior and now they can never recover. Those bad dogs should be left for the pound to deal with, they are not your problem. Those bad doggies cannot be helped and will only bite the hand that tries to help.
There are still many good dogs all over the world who love to be good dogs and are waiting for the right owner to take them home. If those doggies could say “I love you” they’d say it joyfully – but only to a strong owner. Those same doggies with a weak owner will growl and bite and protect it’s property – the weak owner.
The good news is that there are millions and millions of good doggies in the world and all the bad doggies can be ignored.
How can you learn to be a leader?
Think real hard about the parallels of dog training and your leadership role in human life. You may think I wouldn’t compare people to dogs, but you would be wrong. Human behavioral psychology cannot be subverted by women with fancy and useless degrees who talk to you about the need for communication. There is no need for open communication from a leader and there is no need to “work together”, there is need for dominance and an iron will.
If you, Regular Joe, have a problem with dominance and leadership you need to go buy yourself a puppy dog. Do not go to the pound and rescue an older dog who has already learned its behaviors. You want a puppy dog so you can teach it at it’s most important developmental stage. To get a dog who is old and is already potty trained, leash trained and can follow commands is useless to you. You must be there to teach the dog discipline when it is young and not prone to discipline.
It is a power of wills to teach a puppy dog to obey. If you don’t follow through with your commands your little puppy dog will do whatever it wants. This is why anytime you meet a single woman who owns a dog she always says the same thing, “My dog has behavioral problems”. These dogs do not have behavioral problems, they have no leadership or discipline.
Training a puppy dog is the greatest way to learn how to be a leader if you are not a natural leader. You can take the little tricks you learned about your puppy dog and use them to gain dominance in other areas of your life where you feel you have no control or you feel people are walking all over you. Remember, someone will always be doing the walking. If it isn’t you, it’s someone else. But if you’re letting an unqualified leader guide you then you deserve all the shit that you eat. No one is going to give you dominance or control if you are spineless. But if you have courage, heart, strength and an iron will you will take what is yours.
-Victor Pride
I think it is funny but I have seen what you said about the girls with dogs several times. Yet they are always amazed that they pay attention to me almost immediately.
Lol, i though he was going to say now replace the word dog with women
Victor, this is an interesting article. The main issue of being able to become a leader by owning a dog is, of course, humans are much more complicated psychologically and intellectual beings. So, while you only need stern discipline coupled with love to train a dog, I think a bit more is required in leading men.
Rob, you are not wholly incorrect but I will clarify one thing: This is not an article about how to lead men. It is also not truly about dogs. In the first section you can replace the word dog with ______ and it may take on a new meaning.
There are no bad dogs, only heartless, sellfish bastards who can’t even take care of themselves, let alone an animal. I see this everyday at the animal rescue league near where I live. I donate time to care for unwanted pets who belonged to spineless jellyfish.
“We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
– Immanuel Kant, German philosopher
John, this post isn’t really about dogs. It is written in code.
Exactly. I apply it my underlings no matter how hard that may be.
In most cases, I genuinely do believe women are not Men. They should not be treated as men, thought of as like men, or held to the same standards as men.
Love reading your stuff, man. Just found it recently and love the perspective – a lot of this used to be taught to young men on how to be men. Our culture lost it, maybe sometime around the 60s…
Anyway, the dog analogy is great. The best advice I was ever given and it really works is One Command. Do not ever repeat commands if the dog heard you. Make him obey. I’ve been doing this for years, and it’s in line with everything else you’re saying.
Funny, this works with your children too, I’ve found. You don’t get angry – you just don’t tolerate ignorance towards your words. And guess what? My kids and dogs are immensely happy. We get comments all the time on both, “they’re so happy, so behaved”.
Thanks for the insight. I look forward to learning more from your writing.
Thank you Victor. You’ve reminded me the elements of being a true man. This helped me out a lot.
Victor – It’s funny. When I met my wife, I had a gorgeous, incredibly smart, absurdly well trained, well mannered, self controlled, sickeningly sweet and loving Czech Wolfdog. A good dog. Rin-Tin-Tin good. Lassie good. My wife told me that when she saw this dog and how we worked together, she knew right then and there that I was the man she wanted to have children with. Pretty wild. I do believe that you really can tell a lot about a person by how they deal with their dog.
You’re right about some dogs.. some ARE too far gone to deal with, but I’m not sure it’s so cut and dry. It’s hard as hell, but it can be done, a lot of the time, but is it worth spending two years to undo every year of damage from a bad owner? Hard to tell… and even then you never know if it’s going to latch on to your kid’s face out of the blue. I guess it’s all about the context and the kind of environment you’re in that determines whether it’s appropriate to be the martyr and take on that kind of job. I for one would never trust a rescue around one of MY kids.
All told, I agree with you. The relationship a person has with a dog is a barometer for the kind of person they are. Well done.
Good points. I get fucking pissed every time I see people reward dogs/women/other people for bad behavior. How hard can it be to understand those very basic principles of punishment and reward?
Great article, at no point in time did I think this article was primarily about raising puppies. For clarification, were you actually talking about a dog in the 2nd part of the article where you said it was a good way to learn leadership? Thanks for the help.
Yes.
This is the best and most simple analogy around and works to the point of it being insanely effective .
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i did a little research on ‘game’ websites.and looked at a few other self help guides on being attractive to women , getting ex gf’s to want you again, all kind of stuff just out of curiosity.
There all long winded and boring ,overcomplicated instructions and you would need to spend months n months just learning it all . People trying to sell huge e- books on subjects on getting exes back and all kind of crap.
The funny thing is ,I’ve been subconsciously doing most of what these other long websites suggest by just reading short posts like this one !.
These rules are simple to follow, require little thought and result in you following most of the overcomplicated crap so called gurus are trying to promote . You do all of this without thinking !
fantastic job
Civilisation has advanced and we have technology such that we are able to land on the moon but you cannot change nature. Nature has intended man to be the leader and for dogs to be subservient to man. You can’t go against nature, its foolish and you will not succeed.
For example a good happy dog will want to play with your ball any chance it gets.
Treat it as an equal or spoil it with unlearnt rewards then when you say ‘Go fetch’, all you’ll get in return is an expression that says ‘I’ll fetch your dam ball when I want, not when you order me to you beehutch’ (Seee, now you are the Beehutch!)
Victor Pride, You speak the TRUTH