The Dog Listener: Learning the Language of Your Best Friend - Hardcover

Fennell, Jan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002572044 ISBN 13: 9780002572040

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2000

Synopsis

You’ve heard of the Horse Whisperer – now meet the woman who uses similar methods to train dogs.

Jan Fennell’s remarkable gifts have earned her the nickname “the dog listener”. Her unique understanding of the canine world and its instinctive language has enabled her to bring even the most desperate and delinquent of dogs to heel.

This easy-to-follow guide to understanding Jan’s simple techniques draws on her countless case histories of problem dogs – from biters and barkers to bicycle chasers – to show how we can bridge the language barrier that separates man from his best friend.

In The Dog Listener Jan shares her secrets, telling us how she grew determined to find a more compassionate alternative to standard “obedience” training techniques and ultimately how to communicate with canines.

About this title

About the Authors

Jan successfully appeared in Channel 5’s programme The Dog Listener (‘It was amazing.’ – The Daily Mail), and she has previously appeared on Yorkshire TV, in the series ‘Problem Pooches’. She lives in Lincolnshire but her work takes her all around the country. ‘The Dog Listener’ was her first book, and the follow-up, ‘The Practical Dog Listener’, was published in March 2002.

Monty Roberts has been working with horses for more than fifty years. He lives on the central coast of California with his wife, Pat, on their major thoroughbred horse farm.

From the Back Cover

Jan's story is an inspirational and at times moving one. She tells of the tragic death that led her to reassess conventional attitudes to dogs. She describes how she grew determind to find a more compassionate alternative to standard 'obiedience' training techniques. Most importantly of all, she provides an easy-to-follow guide to understanding her technique, a method made all the more remarkable by its simplicity.

Drawing on a wide range of case histories that include even the most desperate and delinquent of dog, Jan shows how she has learnt to communicate with man's best friend, and how anyone can learn this language. Her book will fascinate animal lovers and prove indispensable to dog owners.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0002572044
• ISBN 13: 9780002572040
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 187