Is the book “For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend” any good?
am looking for a dog’s book that explain dogs in general. Not a dog training book (I already have 101 Dog Tricks). I run into this book that looks very promising. I have read some reviews in amazon, an apparently is very good. However, I would like to know if there is a better book that deals with the topics in this book. Any recommendations on books about understanding you dog.
I am getting a new puppy from a breeder. I do not want to make the mistakes that I made when I got a dog (I was 10) and did not know that obedience training and understanding your dog is very important. For training my dog, I got this book The Only Dog Tricks Book You’ll Ever Need: Impress Friends, Family–and Other Dogs! http://www.amazon.com/Only-Tricks-Book-Youll-Family–/dp/1593372566/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1287601090&sr=1-2 . Now, I want a book that tells me how to interpret what my dog wants to tell me. Knowing when my dog is sad, thirsty, bored, happy, etc.
Its a book by Patricia McConnell. A well respected woman in canine behavior people. How can you doubt it just based on its title?
Anyway to answer your question: I like the book. Will it do everything you want, maybe, maybe not. There is no book or item out there that will just give you everything. Your dog is unique to what he responds to and dog behavior is just as varied as human behavior is. Time will teach you when your dog is thirsty as an example.
Now after that, this book is a good book but so are her other books, Suzanne Clothiers articles/book and many others linked within the elite group they are in. I still want to read Brenda Aloffs book on aggression in dogs, but its 40bucks and I just dont have that yet.
Combination is key. This book will help you understand your dogs behavior better, no doubt.
As an answer to your question: get the book.
I’m still reading it along with about three other books in rotation, but I remember a chapter where she was doing a seminar and she asked the audience to count one second. They did and she did anything she could think of in that one second. Then went on to explain there is no way to ever truly know every second what your dog is thinking. But as you start to notice one thing, you get better at it and can notice more things in that second. Kind of like going back and describing all the things she did in that one second. Maybe the first time you try, you only get one or two, but the next time, you get three or four.
If you are looking for a well respected book to read on dog behavior, you can not go wrong with a patricia mcconnell book.
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