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вЂ“ There were 17 instances of male dogs who social status was not known or stated, who over marked the urine of familiar males or females. вЂ“ There were 14 instances of вЂњnot dominant or submissiveвЂќ dogs over marking the urine of familiar males or females. вЂ“ No вЂњdominantвЂќ male dogs were reported out of 91 comments to over mark over the urine of familiar males or females. So, given that digression, hereвЂ™s a summary of your comments: (Note one comment asked a great question: вЂњHow much of a behavior вЂ¦ is true submission and how much is lack of confidence in the ability to win?вЂќ Great question, because thatвЂ™s actually the EXACT definition of the terms! ItвЂ™s ONLY about individualвЂ™s judgments about who is likely to win and how that informs their decisions about who gets a resource.)ДЄrgh, I didnвЂ™t want to get lost in a discussion about social status, especially given that itвЂ™s a mine field, but again, itвЂ™s hard to talk about over marking without bringing it in. I donвЂ™t want to get too lost in the controversy of social status here, but I will summarize that 1) the term вЂњdominanceвЂќ is misused and misunderstood relentlessly, 2) has not been discarded by researchers who study behavior in wild animals and 3) all it means, if use correctly is: who predictably would get the bone/toy/best place to sleep between 2 individuals if they both wanted it equally.

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I address it at length in earlier posts on Augand in a series of posts starting on March 31st, 2010. And yes yes yes, of course, this is a complicated and controversial topic. The other categories were вЂњnot dominant,вЂќ if the writer used those words or in some way stated that, in their belief, the dog was not highest in social status in a group of dogs, and вЂњunknownвЂќ if the writer didnвЂ™t address that topic, or directly stated that they didnвЂ™t know. Aware of all the obvious problems, but believing there might be some value in it, I categorized a dog as вЂњdominantвЂќ if the writer used that term or described the dog as the one who had priority access to preferred resources. This is obviously the fuzziest part of the projectвЂ“so fuzzy for so many reasons that we canвЂ™t begin to call this вЂњresearch,вЂќ but given that the traditional explanation of over marking has been that it is most often done by a вЂњdominantвЂќ dog, it seemed impossible to ignore completely. Finally, I recorded the writerвЂ™s description about the social relationship of their dogs. I recorded if the urine first deposited was from a familiar or an unfamiliar dog. First, an explanation: I recorded sex of over marker and over markee if known, or noted it as вЂunknownвЂќ if necessary. HereвЂ™s what I came up with when summarizing your comments. ? Maybe total confusion means weвЂ™re getting somewhere? But you know how the learning curve often gets steeper once youвЂ™re making some progress (same thing happens in dog training, right)вЂ¦. Anneke LisbergвЂ™s research on urine marking, I now am completely flummoxed about what it all might mean.

After reading every single one of your comments, recording them by sex, familiarity and social status (maybe, sort of, more on that later) and comparing it to Dr.