“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.” ~ Groucho Marx
Educate yourself. Learning is Free. It should be fun!
Recommended Reads
- Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin
- How to Behave So Your Dog Behaves by Dr. Sophia Yin
- Cat Training in 10 Minutes by Miriam Fields-Babineau Fields-Babineau
- The Other End of the Leash by Patricia McConnell
- Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin
- It's Me or the Dog: How to Have the Perfect Pet by Victoria Stilwell
- Culture Clash by Jean Donaldson
- Effectiveness Is Not Enough by Dr. Susan Friedman.
- History of Operant Conditioning and dog training by Dr. Sophia Yin (published in THE BARK magazine)
- The Importance of Choice in Animal Training by Peta Clarke (YouTube video)
- When Good Walruses Go Bad by Kathy Sdao
- The Damage of Dog Whispering by Rachel Garner
- 51 Shades of Grey: Misuse, Misunderstanding and Misinformation of the Concepts of “Dominance” and “Punishment”
- Click to Calm by Emma Parsons
- Feisty Fido by Patricia McConnell and Karen London
- Control Unleashed by Leslie McDevitt
- Think Like a Cat: How to Raise a Well-Adjusted Cat--Not a Sour Puss by Pam Johnson-Bennett
- Positive Perspectives by Pat Miller
- Kinship with All Life by Allen Boone
- Off-Leash Dog Play by Robin Bennett & Susan Briggs
- Clicker Training for Cats by Karen Pryor
- Cat vs. Cat: Keeping Peace When You Have More Than One Cat by Pam Johnson-Bennett
- The Puppy Whisperer: A Compassionate, Non Violent Guide to Early Training and Care by Terence Cranendonk & Paul Owens
- Clicker Training for Birds (Getting Started) by Karen Pryor
- Train Your Dog Positively: Understand Your Dog and Solve Common Behavior Problems Including Separation Anxiety, Excessive Barking, Aggression, House training, Leash Pulling and More! by Victoria Stilwell
- Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training by Karen Pryor
- Chase! Managing Your Dog’s Predatory Instincts, by Clarissa von Reinhardt
- The Complete Guide to Holistic Cat Care: An Illustrated Handbook by Dr. Celeste Yarnall
- The Behaviour of the Domestic Cat by John W. S. Bradshaw, Rachel A. Casey, Sarah L. Brown
- Dog Sense: In Defense of Dogs by John Bradshaw, Ph.D.
- When Elephants Weep - The Emotional Lives of Animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
- Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
- Venomous Reptiles of North America by Carl H. Ernst
- Retrieving for All Occasions - "Do you have a gun dog, and want to have a great time activating your dog and perhaps enter a field trial? Do you want to find a training method where your dog has just as much fun as you do during training? Then this is a book for you!"
Image from 1963, Walter Chandoha's Book of Kittens and Cats
Train Your Dog Positively: Understand Your Dog and Solve Common Behavior Problems Including Separation Anxiety, Excessive Barking, Aggression, House training, Leash Pulling and More! By Victoria Stilwell
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Chapters include:
Part I. The Relationship: The Way Dogs Developed, How They Learn, and What We Need to Understand Them
Part I. The Relationship: The Way Dogs Developed, How They Learn, and What We Need to Understand Them
- Chapter 1. Dominance and Pack Theory: Are Dogs on a Quest for World Domination?
- Chapter 2. The Power of Positive Reinforcement
- Chapter 3. Leading Without Force: The Future of Dog Training
- Chapter 4. Building the Bond: Understanding Canine Language
- Chapter 5. The Positive Puppy: Building a Solid Training Foundation
- Chapter 6. Housetraining Hell: Solving Toileting Issues
- Chapter 7. Home-Alone Blues: Easing Separation Distress and Anxiety
- Chapter 8. Stress, Anxiety, and Fear: From Thunderstorm Phobia to Compulsive Behavior
- Chapter 9. Canine Aggression: From Resource Guarding to Leash Aggression
- Chapter 10. Solving Common Behavior Problems: Stealing, Running Away, Jumping Up, Barking, Leash Pulling, Poop Eating, and Mouthing
Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You A Better Friend to Your Pet
Dogs have been mankind's faithful companions for tens of thousands of years, yet today they are regularly treated as either pack-following wolves or furry humans. The truth is, dogs are neither--and our misunderstanding has put them in serious crisis.What dogs really need is a spokesperson, someone who will assert their specific needs. Renowned anthrozoologist Dr. John Bradshaw has made a career of studying human-animal interactions, and inDog Sense he uses the latest scientific research to show how humans can live in harmony with--not just dominion over-- their four-legged friends. From explaining why positive reinforcement is a more effective (and less damaging) way to control dogs' behavior than punishment to demonstrating the importance of weighing a dog's unique personality against stereotypes about its breed, Bradshaw offers extraordinary insight into the question of how we really ought to treat our dogs.
Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet
by John Bradshaw
Cats have come a long way from being animals charged with catching mice to treasured, adorable creatures that snuggle with us in our beds. But this relatively new arrangement is creating issues for cats and the people who live with them.
Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on the planet, and yet cats remain more mysterious, even to their most adoring owners. Unlike dogs, cats evolved as solitary hunters, and, while many have learned to live alongside humans and even feel affection for us, they still don’t quite “get us” the way dogs do, and perhaps they never will. But cats have rich emotional lives that we need to respect and understand if they are to thrive in our company.
In Cat Sense, renowned anthrozoologist John Bradshaw takes us further into the mind of the domestic cat than ever before, using cutting-edge scientific research to dispel the myths and explain the true nature of our feline friends. Tracing the cat’s evolution from lone predator to domesticated companion, Bradshaw shows that although cats and humans have been living together for at least eight thousand years, cats remain independent, predatory, and wary of contact with their own kind, qualities that often clash with our modern lifestyles. Cats still have three out of four paws firmly planted in the wild, and within only a few generations can easily revert back to the independent way of life that was the exclusive preserve of their predecessors some 10,000 years ago. Cats are astonishingly flexible, and given the right environment they can adapt to a life of domesticity with their owners—but to continue do so, they will increasingly need our help. If we’re to live in harmony with our cats, Bradshaw explains, we first need to understand their inherited quirks: understanding their body language, keeping their environments—however small—sufficiently interesting, and becoming more proactive in managing both their natural hunting instincts and their relationships with other cats.
A must-read for any cat lover, Cat Sense offers humane, penetrating insights about the domestic cat that challenge our most basic assumptions and promise to dramatically improve our pets’ lives—and ours.
How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet, which is a follow-up to John Bradshaw's book Dog Sense.
Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on the planet, and yet cats remain more mysterious, even to their most adoring owners. Unlike dogs, cats evolved as solitary hunters, and, while many have learned to live alongside humans and even feel affection for us, they still don’t quite “get us” the way dogs do, and perhaps they never will. But cats have rich emotional lives that we need to respect and understand if they are to thrive in our company.
In Cat Sense, renowned anthrozoologist John Bradshaw takes us further into the mind of the domestic cat than ever before, using cutting-edge scientific research to dispel the myths and explain the true nature of our feline friends. Tracing the cat’s evolution from lone predator to domesticated companion, Bradshaw shows that although cats and humans have been living together for at least eight thousand years, cats remain independent, predatory, and wary of contact with their own kind, qualities that often clash with our modern lifestyles. Cats still have three out of four paws firmly planted in the wild, and within only a few generations can easily revert back to the independent way of life that was the exclusive preserve of their predecessors some 10,000 years ago. Cats are astonishingly flexible, and given the right environment they can adapt to a life of domesticity with their owners—but to continue do so, they will increasingly need our help. If we’re to live in harmony with our cats, Bradshaw explains, we first need to understand their inherited quirks: understanding their body language, keeping their environments—however small—sufficiently interesting, and becoming more proactive in managing both their natural hunting instincts and their relationships with other cats.
A must-read for any cat lover, Cat Sense offers humane, penetrating insights about the domestic cat that challenge our most basic assumptions and promise to dramatically improve our pets’ lives—and ours.
How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet, which is a follow-up to John Bradshaw's book Dog Sense.
It's natural to feel that we really know everything about our canine family members, but maybe we really don't.
Dognition has collected some surprising facts from a five-question survey that they sent out this morning to 600 dog guardians, asking them, "How well do you know your dog?". The answers they found may surprise you.
Learn more at Dognition.com
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
