Whether you respond or not is of course up to you, but I fail to see why you post a subject on a forum if you don't want to debate it.
I suggest respectfully that you read the article you quoted properly, because as I pointed out to you in my first post, your chosen author actually states:
"when one puts a random group of species together artifically, these animals will naturally compete with each other and eventually form a type of dominance hierarchy. In such cases, it is appropriate to refer to the top-ranking individuals as "alphas", implying that they competed and fought to gain their position. And so too it was with wolves when placed together artificially."
In other words, in family groups there is no fight for hierarchy, but in non-family groups - and as Mech himself states, this applies to all species so your remarks about dogs not being wolves is superfluous - there is. And if, as you state about your own dogs:
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Originally Posted by leashedForLife
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what i do is STOP any and all serious aggro, and also harassment - they can sort how they feel, i do not care;
but NOBODY hurts anyone else, and NOBODY torments or teases another, period.
if they do not love one another, fine - but by DoG, they will be civil. 
cheers,
--- terry |
then obviously you have experienced this in the domestic environment too! So the expert says it happens, you yourself have experienced it happening - I hope you do continue to post because in view of all this I'm really interested to find out why you think it doesn't happen?