For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend
10 best books like For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend (Patricia B. McConnell): Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know, The Possibility Dogs: What a Handful of "Unadoptables" Taught Me About Service, Hope, and Healing, How To Speak Dog: Mastering the Art of Dog-Human Communication, Decoding Your Dog: The Ultimate Experts Explain Common Dog Behaviors and Reveal How to Prevent or Change Unwanted Ones, Before and After Getting Your Puppy: The Positive Approach to Raising a Happy, Healthy, and Well-Behaved Dog, On Talking Terms with Dogs: Calming Signals, Reaching the Animal Mind: Clicker Training and What It Teaches Us About All Animals, Excel-Erated Learning: Explaining in Plain English How Dogs Learn and How Best to Teach Them, Bones Would Rain from the Sky: Deepening Our Relationships with Dogs, The Power of Positive Dog Training
Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
| Author | Alexandra Horowitz |
| ISBN | 1416583408 |
The bestselling book that asks what dogs know and how they think. The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human.
Temple Grandin meets Stephen Pinker...
An inspiring story that shows how dogs can be rescued, and can rescue in return.
With her critically acclaimed, bestselling first book, Scent of the Missing, Susannah Charleson was widely praised for her unique insight into the kinship between humans and dogs, as revealed through her work...
“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.
Parlez-vous Doggish?
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| 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 | Ian Dunbar |
| ISBN | 1577314557 |
Very few dog trainers have not been influenced by Dr. Ian Dunbar's dog-friendly philosophy. In the 1970s, Dr. Dunbar sparked a dramatic shift in dog training — away from leash corrections and drill-sergeant adult dog classes based on competitive obedience and toward a positive approach using toys,...
| 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...
| 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 | 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...
| Author | Jim Gorant |
| ISBN | 1592407315 |
The author of the New York Times bestseller The Lost Dogs shares the heartwarming tale of one plucky, unwanted pit bull who achieved international celebrity.
Today, Wallace is a champion. But in the summer of 2005, he was living in a shelter, a refugee from a suspicious pit bull–breeding...
Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training
| Author | Karen Pryor |
| ISBN | 1860542387 |
A fabulous and easy-to-understand book about how to best use behaviorism. What is behaviorism? Essentially, the study of human and animal behavior - so this book sheds light on the most effective principles to use if you want to better the way you act. You can apply these concepts to so many areas, ranging...
