The Culture Clash
10 best books like The Culture Clash (Jean Donaldson): The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs, For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend, How to Behave So Your Dog Behaves, Before and After Getting Your Puppy: The Positive Approach to Raising a Happy, Healthy, and Well-Behaved Dog, Click to Calm: Healing the Aggressive Dog, 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, 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 Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs
| Author | Patricia B. McConnell |
The Other End of the Leash shares a revolutionary, new perspective on our relationship with dogs, focusing on our behavior in comparison with that of dogs. An applied animal behaviorist and dog trainer with more than twenty years experience, Dr. Patricia McConnell looks at humans as just another interesting...
| 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...
| 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 | 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 | Emma Parsons |
| ISBN | 1890948209 |
Positive Answers for the Aggressive Dog. The dog that bites. The dog that attacks other dogs. The dog who may not survive his own aggressive behavior. What can be done to help these dogs? When Emma Parsons, canine behavior consultant, discovered that her own dog was aggressive, she developed innovative...
| 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...
| 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 | Mary R. Burch |
| ISBN | 0876053711 |
How Dogs Learn explores the fascinating science of operant conditioning, where science and dog training meet. How Dogs Learn explains the basic principles of behavior and how they can be used to teach your dog new skills, diagnose problems and eliminate unwanted behaviors. It's for anyone who wants...
| Author | Patricia B. McConnell |
| ISBN | 1891767003 |
This book offers a fantastic training program for reactive dogs. Start at the very lowest level of reaction, create a positive association with whatever it is that creates the anxiety and work from there. I know first hand that when your dog reacts, it's easy to let yourself also get anxious and excited....
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...
