Natural Dog Training Articles

A Horse and His Toy Car Jul 18 2012 1 Comment
Hunting Equals Bonding Jul 16 2012 No Comments
A Snark Is An Explosive Yawn Jul 02 2012 10 Comments
Mental Ether Jun 29 2012 4 Comments
What’s the Difference Between NDT and Lure/Reward Training? Jun 27 2012 5 Comments
Why Did Wolves Kill Swedish Wolf Keeper? Jun 19 2012 1 Comment
Eric Brad’s Blog Jun 15 2012 22 Comments
The Reactive Dog and the Power of Will Jun 12 2012 15 Comments
Dog Star Daily May 31 2012 6 Comments
The Constructal Law and the Canine Mind May 04 2012 No Comments
Tonight! Whelden Memorial Library Event in Barnstable, MA Apr 18 2012 No Comments
Words Matter Mar 31 2012 4 Comments
April 11th Mark Twain Library Event Mar 30 2012 No Comments
April 28th – Gentle Spirit Farm Seminar Mar 28 2012 1 Comment
Vicarious Emotional Experience 5 Comments
Your Dog Is Your Mirror Arrives in Paperback! Mar 24 2012 No Comments
Design In Nature -9- Mar 16 2012 No Comments
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Design In Nature -7- Mar 14 2012 1 Comment
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Design In Nature -5- Mar 13 2012 No Comments
Design In Nature -4- Mar 11 2012 2 Comments
Design In Nature -3- Mar 10 2012 No Comments
“Design” by Robert Frost Mar 09 2012 No Comments
Design In Nature -2- Mar 07 2012 6 Comments
Social Dominance or Intuitive Physics? Mar 06 2012 No Comments
Design In Nature Mar 04 2012 1 Comment
Making Sense of “Making Sense of the Nonsense” Mar 03 2012 3 Comments
Why “Making Sense of the Nonsense” Doesn’t Make Sense Mar 01 2012 1 Comment
Anatomy of a Discussion on Dominance Feb 24 2012 17 Comments
Dominance: Out with the Old and in with the New Feb 21 2012 2 Comments
Strogatz On Sync Feb 20 2012 2 Comments
Body/Mind Feb 19 2012 10 Comments
Why Was The News Anchor Woman Bitten? Feb 16 2012 5 Comments
May 10-13: NDT Workshop for Canine Assisted Response & Canine Assisted Therapies Feb 07 2012 1 Comment
Intuitive Physics Feb 03 2012 1 Comment
The Principle of Emotional Conductivity Discovered in Sea Slugs Jan 28 2012 3 Comments
Northampton Book Signing Rescheduled to Jan 28th Jan 23 2012 No Comments
Ian Dunbar On Bite Inhibition Jan 06 2012 14 Comments
Jan 21st Book Discussion & Signing Dec 30 2011 No Comments
Roger Abrantes On Dominance Dec 17 2011 7 Comments
The Function of Dysfunction Dec 13 2011 No Comments
Salon Series: Author Kevin Behan this Sunday Dec 02 2011 No Comments
Push Away Stress Nov 30 2011 No Comments
Important Book Nov 12 2011 3 Comments
Do Dogs Grieve? Nov 11 2011 6 Comments
More On Growling Oct 30 2011 11 Comments
Why I Don’t Train My Lion Cub “Bite Inhibition” or to Not-Jump-Up Oct 26 2011 25 Comments
Kevin Behan Radio Interview Wed, 10/19 Oct 18 2011 1 Comment
Emotional Capacity Oct 08 2011 27 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.