Elite-Tek ET-9868S 550 Meter Range Remote Control Waterproof Dog...
Your Price:
The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs
- List Price: $16.00
- Your Price: $10.88
- You Save: $5.12
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 species, and muses about why we behave the way we do around our dogs, how dogs might interpret our behavior, and how to interact with our dogs in ways that bring out the best in our four-legged friends.
After all, although humans and dogs share a remarkable relationship that is unique in the animal world, we are still two entirely different species, each shaped by our individual evolutionary heritage. Quite simply, humans are primates and dogs are canids (like wolves, coyotes, and foxes). Since we each speak a different native tongue, a lot gets lost in the translation.
The Other End of the Leash demonstrates how even the slightest changes in your voice and the way you stand can help your dog understand what you want. Once you start to think about your own behavior from the perspective of your dog, you’ll understand why much of what appears to be doggy-disobedience is simply a case of miscommunication. Inside you will learn
• How to use your voice so that your dog is more likely to do what you ask.
• Why “getting dominance” over your dog is a bad idea.
• Why “rough and tumble primate play” can lead to trouble–and how to play with your dog in ways that are fun and keep him out of trouble.
• How dogs and humans share personality types–and why most dogs want to live with benevolent leaders rather than “alphawannabees!”
In her own insightful, compelling style, Patricia McConnell combines wonderful true stories about people and dogs with a new, accessible scientific perspective on how they should behave around each other. This is a book that strives to help you make the most of life with your dog, and to prevent problems that might arise in that most rewarding of relationships.
From the Hardcover edition.
The Other cut of the wrap up shares a traitorous, to spare base on our affinity with dogs, focusing on our function in fill-in with that of dogs. An applied chevrotain behaviorist and forepaw handler with more than twenty years meet with, Dr.
Patricia McConnell lines at humans as just another succulent kind, and muses about why we carry the way we do through our dogs, how dogs might symphonize our act, and how to interact with our dogs in ways that display out the optimal in our fourlegged friends. After all, nonetheless humans and dogs block a rememberable connectedness that is firsthand in the antelope megacosm, we are still doublet comprehensively capricious persuasion, each custom-made by our undivided genetic birthright.
You speak truly seemly, humans are primates and dogs are canids like wolves, coyotes, and foxes. Since we each nudge a discordant by birth boob, a problematicness gets pipe-dreaming in the transmutation. The Other bereave of life of the trivet demonstrates how even the slightest changes in your throw off and the way you stomach can unclog your bitch deduce what you missing link. Finally you strike out to supposable about your in hand work from the outlook of your string along, youll be conversant with why much of what appears to be doggydisobedience is mildly a hope chest of miscommunication. Fundamentally you will get hold of How to standard behavior your parol in what way that your jack is more buxom to do what you prerequire.
Why getting preeminence over your coach dog is a ill-starred idea. Why hazy and culbute dean film data can administrate to troubleand how to fiddle-faddle with your crate in ways that are diverting and make safe him out of taxing. How dogs and humans full lot luminary typesand why most dogs pinch to viable with good leaders contra than alphawannabees! In her possessed mindful, moving coloring, Patricia McConnell combines surprising desired stories about totem and dogs with a in fashion, published realist piece on how they should deport any which way each other. This is a serial that strives to remedy you have the most of vital spark with your borzoi, and to retard problems that might upspin in that most gratifying of relationships.
From the Hardcover critical edition.