Natural Dog Training Articles

Physical Memory Is Transferable Dec 07 2013 2 Comments
The Primordial Connection ala the Higgins Method Dec 04 2013 No Comments
What Is Energy? Dec 03 2013 4 Comments
2014 International Natural Dog Training Conference, Ninevah, Indiana. Dec 02 2013 1 Comment
Reptiles and Emotional Projection Nov 26 2013 No Comments
Of Wolves, Dogs, Women and Men Nov 22 2013 4 Comments
Wired To Be Social Nov 03 2013 3 Comments
NDT and the Science of Collective Behavior Nov 01 2013 8 Comments
Elephants and Pointing Oct 11 2013 No Comments
Babies and Feeling Weightless, Guilt and Feeling Weighted Oct 10 2013 2 Comments
Be The Owner Oct 06 2013 23 Comments
New Paradigm for Modern Behaviorism? Oct 04 2013 3 Comments
Hunger For Babies Sep 29 2013 3 Comments
Why We Like Sad Music: Part Two Sep 27 2013 4 Comments
Why We Like Sad Music Sep 23 2013 13 Comments
Downward Dog: Restorative Exercises for Dogs & Their Humans: Nov 15-17 Sep 19 2013 No Comments
Indiana NDT Conference Final Note Sep 13 2013 1 Comment
John’s Question about Growling Sep 07 2013 11 Comments
Indiana NDT Conference Note Three Sep 02 2013 3 Comments
John Locke and the Immediate Moment Manner of Analysis 1 Comment
Indiana Conference Note Two Sep 01 2013 40 Comments
First Note On Natural Dog Training Conference in Indiana Aug 29 2013 13 Comments
Objects, and the process of Objectification as a Function of Emotional Conductivity Aug 13 2013 7 Comments
Consciousness is Energy Aug 09 2013 1 Comment
The Principle of Emotional Conductivity Aug 05 2013 6 Comments
How A Dog Constructs Its View of Reality Aug 04 2013 2 Comments
Point Five Aug 01 2013 7 Comments
Point Four: Physical Memory Jul 30 2013 6 Comments
Point About Energy Jul 26 2013 No Comments
Point Three Jul 23 2013 13 Comments
Point Two Jul 22 2013 7 Comments
They Don’t Know What I’m Saying Because They Don’t Know What They’re Saying Jul 21 2013 2 Comments
More Evidence of Physical Memory Jul 12 2013 1 Comment
Society for the Promotion of Applied Research in Canine Science Conference Jul 09 2013 9 Comments
Athletic Machines and Attraction Jun 19 2013 No Comments
George Carlin On the Nature of Intelligence Jun 11 2013 No Comments
Feeling The Midpoint Jun 03 2013 6 Comments
Canine Constructal Mind and Ant-Bots May 31 2013 2 Comments
Dogs Know Us More Than We Know May 25 2013 3 Comments
Why Don’t Free Ranging Dogs Live In Packs? May 22 2013 2 Comments
More on the Forest for the Trees May 21 2013 No Comments
The Trees In Our Forest May 16 2013 6 Comments
Synchronization and Alignment May 15 2013 No Comments
Resource Holding Potential May 10 2013 10 Comments
Emotional Projection May 08 2013 5 Comments
Grid Cells and Physical Memory May 03 2013 2 Comments
Misattribution? Apr 30 2013 No Comments
Emotional Fusion Apr 26 2013 No Comments
Heart as a State of Mind Apr 25 2013 2 Comments
Cognitive Research as Alchemy Apr 23 2013 6 Comments

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Books about Natural Dog Training by Kevin Behan

In Your Dog Is Your Mirror, dog trainer Kevin Behan proposes a radical new model for understanding canine behavior: a dog’s behavior and emotion, indeed its very cognition, are driven by our emotion. The dog doesn’t respond to what the owner thinks, says, or does; it responds to what the owner feels. And in this way, dogs can actually put people back in touch with their own emotions. Behan demonstrates that dogs and humans are connected more profoundly than has ever been imagined — by heart — and that this approach to dog cognition can help us understand many of dogs’ most inscrutable behaviors. This groundbreaking, provocative book opens the door to a whole new understanding between species, and perhaps a whole new understanding of ourselves.
  Natural Dog Training is about how dogs see the world and what this means in regards to training. The first part of this book presents a new theory for the social behavior of canines, featuring the drive to hunt, not the pack instincts, as seminal to canine behavior. The second part reinterprets how dogs actually learn. The third section presents exercises and handling techniques to put this theory into practice with a puppy. The final section sets forth a training program with a special emphasis on coming when called.