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If it's not more practical, then it's him relieving inner pressure.

The most natural way for a human to relieve inner pressure is to dance and drum. For a dog it's barking and skipping.

In human wars, you use marches, battle drums etc... In dog wars they bark, bounce and stand on their hind legs. When highly agitated, or moved, a dog will accumulate a lot of excitement in their back legs and you often see dogs- unable to express this- do crazy, low dashes using their front legs weirdly. This is common among breeds who have forgot a lot of their nature. Ever seen a pack of siberian huskey sled dogs? They tend to use a lot of barking since they still have a good deal of primal behaviour in them, but their back legs are more focused on sledding - exercise and fellowshipping. An alaskan malamute will be seen skipping up or forward/backward as well as mild barking to channel excitement, which is an efficient and relevant way to behave for a dog.

A deaf or a blind dog will be more in touch with their primal sides, since there will be less distractions. Since men have led them to forget primal behaviour, it's man's responsibility to support dogs and help them be alive. Dogs have traded wild behaviour to be domesticated, and now are in pact with man, exchanging services. Dog owners will have to honour this pact, as well as confirm it. Since nowadays you have a lot of retrievers who don't get to retrieve, you have to give them other work.

THUS, find work for the dog and be a pack leader.

It all comes down to Cesar's simple teachings: Let the dog work for its food, be a calm and assertive pack leader.

If a dog gets stuck in a behaviour, challenge it and lead it out of it, making sure its needs are properly fulfilled.

Personally I specifically train dogs to channel energy. This is not something that you see Cesar do... he leads them and fulfills them and let them do the rest and use strong dogs like daddy to teach the dogs the channeling parts etc... I don't have any Daddy or stuff though so I help dogs go through emotions by teaching them channeling as well as teaching restrictions. One dog that was sexually frustrated  I taught him to breathe and work through that frustration and I also have "jump"(in Swedish) as one of my commands, along with "stay", "sit" etc; that I use to help dogs realize their hind legs. As for barking I guess you can work it out with a command, but I think it's too stern, so I bark myself and am the example to them."

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