Natural Dog Training Articles

“A Radical Concept Could Revise Theories Addressing Cognitive Behavior” Apr 20 2013 1 Comment
Misinterpretation of Behavior Due to Calming Signal Theory Apr 15 2013 1 Comment
Reflections on University of Tennessee Conference Apr 14 2013 6 Comments
Untested Assumptions Apr 01 2013 No Comments
Eating is Physics Because Emotion is Physics. Mar 31 2013 No Comments
Aesop Had It Wrong Mar 19 2013 No Comments
Panksepp, SEEK, and Natural Dog Training Mar 18 2013 No Comments
Panksepp, Natural Dog Training, Part Two Mar 16 2013 4 Comments
Hunting Is A Circle Mar 14 2013 4 Comments
Jaak Panksepp and Natural Dog Training Mar 10 2013 14 Comments
The Math Underlying Natural Dog Training Mar 07 2013 7 Comments
What Can We Know For Sure? Feb 28 2013 7 Comments
Natural Dog Training at Battleground, Indiana in August Feb 24 2013 3 Comments
Keynote Speaker at BMDCNV Annual Meeting – April 28th Feb 23 2013 No Comments
Censorship In Dogdom and the Nature of Dominance Feb 22 2013 10 Comments
The Higgins Method Feb 15 2013 12 Comments
Seeing By Heart Feb 13 2013 9 Comments
Do Dogs Understand Human Perspective? Feb 12 2013 3 Comments
Construct of a “Self” Feb 07 2013 3 Comments
Smell and the Quantum Canine Jan 31 2013 4 Comments
A Critique of Context-Is-Everything Followed by an Introduction to Canine Body Language Jan 19 2013 2 Comments
Hierarchy as a Function of Flow Jan 14 2013 No Comments
Body Language 3 Jan 11 2013 No Comments
The Drive Principle versus the Premack Principle Jan 10 2013 1 Comment
Birdsong, Music, and Emotion as Networked Intelligence Jan 03 2013 No Comments
Body Language 2 Dec 30 2012 2 Comments
Canine Body Language Dec 28 2012 15 Comments
Being In Sync Dec 19 2012 17 Comments
Distractibility and Time Dec 04 2012 7 Comments
The Information is in the Energy Nov 20 2012 No Comments
Comfort Food Nov 15 2012 19 Comments
Recent Nova and Nature Episodes Nov 09 2012 5 Comments
Barking On Command Oct 22 2012 7 Comments
Jane Austen and Emotional Projection Oct 09 2012 No Comments
Natural Dog Training Workshop Nov. 4th Oct 06 2012 No Comments
Antje Hebel Oct 04 2012 No Comments
Behavior Is Attraction Oct 02 2012 No Comments
The Predator, The Prey, and the Earth Form One Circle Sep 30 2012 1 Comment
Why Wolves Hunt and Dogs Can Play Sep 29 2012 No Comments
The Constructal Law and Behaviorism Sep 20 2012 No Comments
The Debate Over Training Methods Sep 14 2012 1 Comment
Reinterpreting “Calming Signals” 8 Comments
Flow Solves All Problems Sep 06 2012 1 Comment
Why We Need To Know About Drive Sep 03 2012 1 Comment
Cambridge Statement on Animal Consciousness Aug 23 2012 1 Comment
Kevin Behan Guest Blogs on Psychology Today Aug 18 2012 3 Comments
Constructal law and the Canine Mind Aug 11 2012 1 Comment
The Unknown Scientist 3 Comments
Emotional Projection and the Self Aug 10 2012 No Comments
Calculating Center Mass Jul 24 2012 No 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.