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.Why “getting dominance” over your dog is a bad idea.How to use your voice so that your dog is more likely to do what you ask.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. 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. Since we each speak a different native tongue, a lot gets lost in the translation. Quite simply, humans are primates and dogs are canids (like wolves, coyotes, and foxes). 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.Īfter 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.  An applied animal behaviorist and dog trainer with more than twenty years experience, Dr. 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. Learn why pet owners rave, 'This book changed our lives!' and how these pioneering techniques can work for you too. Explorations of exciting new uses for reinforcement training.Tips for house-training the dog, improving your tennis game, or dealing with an impossible teen.  The 10 laws of 'shaping' behavior–for results without strain or pain through 'affection training'. 8 methods of ending undesirable habits-from furniture-clawing cats to sloppy roommates. The principles of the revolutionary 'clicker training' method, which owes its phenomenal success to its immediacy of response-so there is no question what action you are rewarding. Here are the secrets of changing behavior in pets, kids-even yourself-without yelling, threats, force, punishment, guilt trips.or shooting the dog: Now this revised edition presents more of her insights into animal-and human-behavior.Ī groundbreaking behavioral scientist and dynamic animal trainer, Karen Pryor is a powerful proponent of the principles and practical uses of positive reinforcement in teaching new behaviors. Karen Pryor's clear and entertaining explanation of behavioral training methods made Don't Shoot the Dog! a bestselling classic.

A Dog's Guide to Humans by Karen Davison

He’s also utterly overcome with love, struck and possessed by love to an overwhelming extent. He handles a devastating failure with great dignity (not that he’s free of turmoil, or frustration and dejection). Thornton becomes more inclined to flexibility and compromise. Their presence in each other’s lives and the upheavals they go through work certain influences on them. At the start of the novel, both she and Thornton are, in their own ways, quite sure of themselves. Margaret tries to do good and be dutiful, not always with success or consistency (which I like, because it’s more realistic than if she were a spotless angel free of all biases or lapses). The nature of change, the influences that work on people’s character, aren’t always straightforward in this book. He’s disposed to it, susceptible to these influences by virtue of his own character. Also, because Thornton has the potential to change in these ways. But the adjustments in perception and attitude are there, in part because of Margaret’s influence (some of his words later in the book echo hers from earlier on), and possibly because Thornton has been taking lessons from the gentle Mr. The book isn’t sentimental about these changes – it’s not like they all become the best of friends and eliminate poverty and disease from the town. By the end of the novel, he has taken some initial steps to forging a relationship with his workers that’s more cooperative and less antagonistic. Thornton, for instance, seems to have two sides to him: the cold and calculating manufacturer, and the man who brings fruit to Margaret’s ill mother. What does it mean to live well and be a good person within this brutal system? Mr. Hunger, rage, strikes, fluctuations in trade, wild speculations, and shifting, uncertain social positions are all a part of this northern town the Hales now live in.Īlong with portraying some of these societal changes, the author, Elizabeth Gaskell, explores the personal changes as well. Margaret is horrified to witness workers living in grinding poverty and dying from the cotton fluff they’ve inhaled.  The novel’s upheavals also come from the cotton mills of England’s Industrial Revolution. By the time he stops being so distasteful, there are enough misunderstandings and intervening events to keep them apart for a while. In the coming months, Margaret struggles to understand a new culture, suffers the deaths of people close to her, and meets John Thornton, a young industrialist who initially inspires distaste. Hale starts working as a tutor, meaning that he and his family slide down in social rank.  The family moves from a lovely, sleepy village in the south of England to a polluted industrial town in the north, where Mr.  The main character, Margaret Hale, is the teenaged daughter of a vicar who decides he can’t be a vicar anymore and leaves the church.

Etherwalker by Cameron Dayton