Doglinks

The most revealing, thought provoking book that I've read about the origins of dog is by Coppinger. Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior, and Evolution Then I found out from Stanley Coren who wrote many books about dogs and has a TV show. He's a professor from UBC (University of British Columbia) in Canada. The one that im... pressed me the most was The Intelligence of Dogs. I knew my lad was up there in the smarts... He also wrote How to Speak Dog Other books include The Social Lives of Dog by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, and a book written by a single woman who got a dog for companionship but the dog became her life. She wrote about how the dog transformed her life. She started to stay home and not go out because of she didn't want to leave her dog alone! I can't remember the name, but it hit a cord with me. The Dog Whisperer by Paul Owens is another one of those gems.. Other books are about training... Karen Pryor's Don't Shoot the Dog , the 101 things you can do with a clicker, Clicker Training for Obedience by Morgan Spector, Karen Pryor So You're Dog is not Lassie was written for me! Definitely! Holmes is an independent thinker, and takes quite a bit of convincing to get him to do silly things like having an interest in a dumbell and bringing it to me (that was an achievement!). Betty Fisher, the author, convinced and reassured me that my dog will do the tricks and to not get frustrated. A great book for me. Without her, I would have had a hard time completing my dog training course. My background is a teacher, and so dog training actually taught me a lot in terms of understanding the 'now' of life. Many of the kids that I taught were somewhat like this too. I love them all dearly. My teaching has brought me to many corners of the world. But I will say that I have taught primary school kids in a little village called Te Hapua in the Far North, travelled around New Zealand with the Science-Technology Roadshow (helped financially by Telecom) showing the benefits of computers to ...Read More