Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet
10 best books like Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet (John Bradshaw): For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend, How To Speak Dog: Mastering the Art of Dog-Human Communication, Feeling Outnumbered?: How to Manage and Enjoy Your Multi-Dog Household, How to Behave So Your Dog Behaves, Pukka's Promise: The Quest for Longer-Lived Dogs, Decoding Your Dog: The Ultimate Experts Explain Common Dog Behaviors and Reveal How to Prevent or Change Unwanted Ones, Control Unleashed: Creating a Focused and Confident Dog, On Talking Terms with Dogs: Calming Signals, Reaching the Animal Mind: Clicker Training and What It Teaches Us About All Animals, Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior Evolution
| Author | Patricia B. McConnell |
| ISBN | 0345477146 |
The last book I read by her was all about communicating with your dog, with much emphasis on how humans act around dogs and why some of what we do is just plain wrong. The subject of this book was dogs and emotion.
There has been a lot of debate over the years as to whether or not dogs (and other non-human...
“A must read for all dog owners.” —The Washington Post
“The best key to what dogs are thinking.” —The Seattle Times
How to Speak Dog
is one of the few books today that show us what dogs are trying to tell us, not just how we can control them.
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| Author | Karen B. London |
| ISBN | 1891767062 |
This is a really short book. If you are looking for an exhaustive tome on managing multiple dogs, you may feel somewhat disappointed, especially since the authors direct you to a large list of comprehensive books at the end. But I think that would be selling the book (or as the author calls it, pamphlet)...
| Author | Sophia Yin |
| ISBN | 0793806445 |
How to Behave So Your Dog Behaves takes a scientifically sound yet practical approach to explaining dog behavior and training theory, and then shows you how to apply these concepts so you can train your dog to be well behaved. Written by one of the leading veterinary behaviorists in the country, this...
| Author | Ted Kerasote |
| ISBN | 1469258773 |
When Ted Kerasote was ready for a new dog after losing his beloved Merle — who died too soon, as all our dogs do — he knew that he would want to give his puppy Pukka the longest life possible. But how to do that? So much has changed in the way we feed, vaccinate, train, and live with our dogs from even a decade...
| Author | American College of Veterinary Behaviorists |
| ISBN | 0547738919 |
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...
| Author | Leslie McDevitt |
| ISBN | 7818926941 |
I loved this book. The whole book is about reframing how you work with your dog, specifically in agility classes.
I have started using some of her techniques with my distracted, reactive dog and after a few days of me focusing on connecting with him and raising my rate of reinforcement there is...
| Author | Turid Rugaas |
| ISBN | 1929242360 |
One of our all time best selling books is now in its second edition with three additional chapters, color photos and descriptive captions. Turid Rugaas is a noted expert on canine body language, notably "calming signals" which are signals dogs give to other dogs and humans to denote stress and to attempt...
| Author | Karen Pryor |
| ISBN | 0743297768 |
From the founder of “clicker” training, the widely praised humane approach to shaping animal behavior, comes a fascinating book—part memoir, part insight into how animals and people think and behave.
A celebrated pioneer in the field of no-punishment animal training, Karen Pryor...
Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior Evolution
| Author | Raymond Coppinger |
| ISBN | 0684855305 |
Marking the first time that dogs have been explained in such detail by eminent researchers, "Dogs" is a work of wide appeal, as absorbing as it is enlightening. Drawing on insight gleaned from forty-five years of raising, training, and studying the behaviors of dogs worldwide, Lorna and Raymond Coppinger...
| Author | Pamela J. Reid |
| ISBN | 1888047070 |
This book is the secret for increasing the speed and efficiency of dog training. With the freedom of understanding "how your dog learns" comes the ability of making the process easy, efficient, and enjoyable for your dog. You'll be in a position to excel-erate your dog's learning! At long last we have...
Akin to Monty Roberts's The Man Who Listens to Horses and going light-years beyond The Hidden Life of Dogs, this extraordinary book takes a radical new direction in understanding our life with canines and offers us astonishing new lessons about our pets. From changing the misbehaviors and habits that...
| Author | Pat Miller |
| ISBN | 0764536095 |
The Power of Positive Dog Training is the best book yet on explaining how and why purely positive training works. Inside, you'll find easy to read discussion of the philosophy of positive training followed by training tips and exercises. This book is geared toward the dog owner who wants to develop a...
| Author | Brenda Aloff |
| ISBN | 1929242352 |
So, I had to send this back. Library and their rigid rules about due dates and such. Maybe I'll get it again. Maybe I won't. But I should do this book some justice.
It was really quite interesting. You'd think it might be dated, that there might be something revolutionary that's happened in the...
| Author | Grisha Stewart |
| ISBN | 1617810509 |
Think "functional" to solve your dog's reactivity issues Behavior Adjustment Training (BAT) was developed by author Grisha Stewart to rehabilitate and prevent dog reactivity. BAT looks at the function of growling, lunging, or fleeing and helps dogs learn socially acceptable behaviors that serve...
| Author | Jennifer Arnold |
| ISBN | 1400068886 |
A stirring, inspiring book with the power to change the way we understand and communicate with our dogs.
Few people are more qualified to speak about the abilities and potential of dogs than Jennifer Arnold, who for the past twenty years has trained service dogs for people with physical disabilities...
| Author | Jean Donaldson |
| ISBN | 1888047054 |
Winner of the Maxwell Award for BEST DOG TRAINING BOOK (1997) from the Dog Writers? Association of America. Voted #1 BEST BOOK (2000 & 2001) by the Association of Pet Dog Trainers?the largest and most influential worldwide association of professional pet dog trainers. The Culture Clash is utterly...
| Author | Jon Katz |
| ISBN | 1400066298 |
Do animals have souls? Some of our greatest thinkers–Aristotle, Plato, Thomas Aquinas–and countless animal lovers have been obsessed with this question for thousands of years. Now New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz looks for an answer and finds even more questions as he recounts the...
