Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
What is an alpha? This is a question that gets asked on internet chat rooms and online.
I get emails asking "what is an alpha?", "What is an alpha"? quite a lot.
An alpha, beside being the Greek letter of the alphabet in the first, an alpha gives
the impression that it's first and a lot of people conceive of what the role of an alpha
is. I cant' tell you want exactly an alpha is
to everybody. I can tell you what it is to the sirius pups and perhaps that gives you
some insight and helps you along the way. This is my alpha Gpup here. For us at Sirius
Pup an alpha is a role different to other pups in that the alpha stands outside the
pack or stands outside the relationship that a boss or a sir conventionally has with a
pup. It's such a paternal relationship where as a boss a pup master a sir you're leading,
grooming, educating a pup. You still have that relationship with your alpha, most of
the time you'll be helping them educating them however the alpha goes a little bit divergently
for your alpha has to have a little big of indepencance.
Your alpha is your peer, in a way your comrade. They're within the pack to help his master.
Not as an intercessory to mediate disputes, nor to guide the other pups deliberately in
an educational fashion. An alpha for the sirius pup pack has a very
specific role to look out for his other pups. He's a leader of his pack in that he shows
how to be a good pup by example by demonstration and by being brave and by forging into new
territory before the other pups to show them how it's done and to allow them to see that
it's safe for them to venture into new territory to learn new skills to enjoy new activities.
Importantly also an alpha cares for his pack. He's there to keep attention to how they're
being treated and to take it to me, to his boss to his sir if I'm out of line because
it's important for the alpha to always protect his pups to make sure they're ok.
There's going to be times as a boss, as a master you over step the mark a little and
your alpha is there as your comrade as your peer to help you pull back and get more of
a sense of rational behaviour as opposed to getting carried away with passion. I think
we all know how that can be. Finally your alpha does step aside a little.
WHen you have disputes, or when you have interactions between you and the other pups that can get
a little passionate that can get a little testy or get nervous, alpha steps back and
observes and watches and this comes to the final thing about being an alpha, it's all
about the timing. To be an alpha you've got to have a sense
of timing of knowing when to step in, when to step back, when to nudge another pup along.
You can't simply be pushing, bullying, dominating and that's where, I believe, a number of other
pups may go a little astray. That feeling of rugged domination, maybe that
makes them feel they're an alpha but here at Sirius Pup you don't need to be a hard
*** *** to be a strong alpha pup.