Modern Dog Magazine

Modern Dog Magazine is "the lifestyle magazine for modern dogs and their companions."

Of course, they feature the "modern way" of thinking about dogs. Just looking at the current issue online, I see article by big-name heavyweights such as Nicole Wilde, Jean Donaldson, Ian Dunbar, and Stanley Coren (I can imagine hearing LCK groaning now). But Coren's article on dog's body language seems to be a good one (to me). Actually I guess they're all good.

Interesting to see though that Coren actually dared to include "dominant" behavior in the article. It's kind of funny how the positives try to avoid the use of that term when it's so obvious that dominant behavior exists (not just among dogs but everywhere). Whatever you want to call it or however you want to explain it.

[More surfing, here's a post while googling semantics in dog training. It's by a so-called balanced trainer (apparently meaning he's not all positive or all negative) named John Wade aka The Dog Shouter. I suppose they want to be careful about how the general public might use/misuse the term. Patricia McConnell writes about dominance in chapter seven in The Other End of the Leash. Cesar writes about it in Be The Pack Leader.]

Thus with that tone, I was a surprised to see an pretty-much "positive" interview with Cesar with mostly positive comments (in fact, that's how I found this magazine). Of course, the editor felt compelled to precede it with a disclaimer.