Decoding Your Dog: The Ultimate Experts Explain Common Dog Behaviors and Reveal How to Prevent or Change Unwanted Ones Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00HNVHUPC | Format: EPUB
Decoding Your Dog: The Ultimate Experts Explain Common Dog Behaviors and Reveal How to Prevent or Change Unwanted Ones Description
More than ninety percent of dog owners consider their pets to be members of their family. But often, despite our best intentions, we are letting our dogs down by not giving them the guidance and direction they need. Unwanted behavior is the number-one reason dogs are relinquished to shelters and rescue groups.
The key to training dogs effectively is first to understand why our dogs do what they do. And no one can address this more authoritatively than the diplomates of the American College of Veterinary Behavior, whose work, the culmination of years of rigorous training, takes them deep into the minds of dogs in an effort to decode how they think, how they communicate, and how they learn.
In Decoding Your Dog, these experts analyze problem behaviors, decipher the latest studies, and correct common misconceptions and outmoded theories. The audiobook includes: Effective, veterinary-approved positive training methods. Expert advice on socialization, house-training, diet, and exercise. Remedies for behavior problems such as OCD and aggression.
With Decoding Your Dog, the experts' experts deliver a must-have dog behavior guide that ultimately challenges the way we think about our dogs.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 12 hours and 8 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Tantor Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: January 7, 2014
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00HNVHUPC
As the owner/manager of an older dog and a new rescue, I was amazed how much I learned in a short time with this book. I can't say I now understand what's going on in their heads, but I learned how to improve our relationship -- and that' s even better! The authors follow two critical themes: establishing a mutually trusting environment with your dogs, and developing realistic expectations, reliable training, and ongoing enrichment. They note canine mental processes and behaviors are NOT the same as those of humans, despite our tendency to anthropomorphize dogs and think we can understand them. You can find other dog behavior books, but perhaps none have the qualifications of the authors. They are all Board certified Veterinary Behaviorists (a specialty recognized by the authoritative America Board of Veterinary Specialties), and their articles were then vetted (pun semi-intended) by two authors who are also Board certified specialists. Post-Doctorate Board Certification is no easy feat and represents, at the least, high levels of dedication and training, not to mention surviving a stressful process of testing and frequent evaluation by experienced professors. The book reflects advances in measuring and interpreting behavior that you can't always find in canine "self-help" books or even from dog handlers and breeders. Our vet and a breeder we know were impressed with the authors' credentials and credibility, and I noticed our vet copied the title when we showed them the book. This book may have the potential to be a classic and you can learn (or reinforce) much from it. Its caring advice may save the lives of many dogs and will doubtlessly enrich the lives of others.
The fourteen remarkably well-coordinated chapters were written and overseen by twenty-two veterinary specialists.
You can't go wrong with this book if you have or want a dog. An excellent book to get before you bring a dog into your family. It should be required reading before anyone gets a dog. I asked Vine to send me this book for the reasons most will be drawn to it: I have a dog that has behaviors I don't understand and I need some help. I did not find the solution, but no book is perfect. What I did find was solid information about the overall training of and living with dogs and some insightful, credible, science-based information about why dogs do what they do.
I did not know the book was written by veterinarians, which may have turned me off. HOWEVER, author Steve Dale has done a great job of making the book readable or the vets were good writers because the book is engaging and clever. Information is presented with examples of specifically named dogs, which brings the information to life; pictures are included; and each chapter has a wrap up "What Did we Say?" Since each chapter was written by a different person as is common in books by academicians, there is no index*, which I would have liked, but each chapter is a jewel. The chapter "I Know They're Normal Behaviors, but How do you Fix Them? Common Problems That Can Drive any Dog Owner to Howl," should be required, like a marriage license. "Can't we Just Talk?" and "Creating a Mensa Dog?" are also standouts. As I have an older dog in my family and have ushered two other dogs through their older years, I really appreciated the chapter on "Dogs with an AARF Card." The chapter on phobias, "I know it's going to rain, and I hate the Fourth of July," is another that can save lives because as the book points out, "unwanted behaviors is the number-one reason dogs are relinquished.
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