Through A Dog's Eyes: Understanding Our Dogs by Understanding How They See the World - Softcover

Arnold, Jennifer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0285641115 ISBN 13: 9780285641112

Publisher: Souvenir Press, 2012

Synopsis

Jennifer Arnold has trained service dogs for people with physical disabilities and special needs for over twenty years. In that time, she has developed a unique understanding of dogs untapped potential. By understanding their capabilities, intelligence and extrasensory skills she has taught dogs to make choices, instead of following commands, and her results have been extraordinary. Through A Dog s Eyes reveals the science behind Jennifer Arnold s remarkable training methods. Based on the belief that dogs are naturally trusting beings attuned to their owners needs who aim to please, Jennifer Arnold calls for an end to traditional dog-training strategies based on the theory of alpha dominance that is being increasingly challenged by modern science. Jennifer Arnold s choice-based, positive-reinforcement-only methods are based on kindness and respect, founded on scientific discoveries from the work of Charles Darwin, Edward O. Wilson, Rupert Sheldrake and many others. In the book Jennifer shares her training methods developed from 20 years of studying and working with dogs. She explains that by knowing how a dog sees the world owners can build up trust, avoid confusing signals, and teach new skills. For example, her own dogs wouldn t jump into the back of her SUV yet they were happy to go onto the seats. Dogs have relatively poor eyesight compared to their other senses and Jennifer realised that from the dogs point of view they were jumping into a black hole rather than onto a dark carpet. By putting pale towels onto the surface she removed the problem and the dogs happily jumped into the back of the vehicle. Based on kindness and encouragement she shows how you can teach dogs to make choices rather than simply follow commands. When teaching a puppy to walk to heel Jennifer suggests taking the lead off in a safe area and allowing it to choose between running off, or walking beside you and being rewarded with a treat. The puppy will soon learn to walk calmly by your side.

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Review

The inspiring story of the hundreds of assistance dogs Jennifer has now trained, and the science behind her remarkable methods. --Dogs Today

A captivating read which will change the way you see your own dog by showing you the way your dog sees the world. --Dog Training Weekly

Jennifer Arnold has developed a profound understanding of canine psychology. In Through A Dog s Eyes, she relates many of the insights she has gained over the course of her experiences and the scientific basis behind them. --Pet Focus

About the Author

Jennifer Arnold is the founder of Canine Assistants, one of the US s largest service dog organisations.

About this edition

• Publisher: Souvenir Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0285641115
• ISBN 13: 9780285641112
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240