MonicaMc
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The last thing I want to hear is that "birds are dominant" and then people assume that a behavior is dominance and must use force to train a bird which can cause trust breaking rather than trust building.
You sound as if you are almost contradicting yourself. If a human is the "alpha" then that states that the human asserted dominance, and yet you also say it's about the inability to train the animal at that time. Positive reinforcement training has nothing to do with dominance and everything to do with being a teacher and learning to communicate with the bird. Flooding uses the dominance theory and about relentlessly forcing an animal to endure something that it does not enjoy - sometimes even to the breaking point that an animal learns that no matter what it does, it has no choice, aka learned helplessness.
You sound as if you are almost contradicting yourself. If a human is the "alpha" then that states that the human asserted dominance, and yet you also say it's about the inability to train the animal at that time. Positive reinforcement training has nothing to do with dominance and everything to do with being a teacher and learning to communicate with the bird. Flooding uses the dominance theory and about relentlessly forcing an animal to endure something that it does not enjoy - sometimes even to the breaking point that an animal learns that no matter what it does, it has no choice, aka learned helplessness.