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More Great Science Sep 20 2011 4 Comments
Hormones Don’t Cause Behavior Sep 16 2011 8 Comments
Water As Midpoint Sep 12 2011 3 Comments
A Bark Comes In Handy 12 Comments
Cousy Getting Under The Charge Sep 11 2011 14 Comments
Soft Puppy Mouth 4 Comments
Making Traits On Demand 9 Comments
Object of Attention To Object of Attraction 1 Comment
The Heart as CPU of Consciousness Sep 09 2011 3 Comments
The Bubble Problem Sep 07 2011 12 Comments
2nd Free Interaction Sep 06 2011 6 Comments
First Free Interaction With Strong-Natured Dog 9 Comments
First Structured Interaction With Strong-Natured Dog Sep 05 2011 1 Comment
First Off Lead Play With Soft-Natured Dog No Comments
Converting Instinct to Drive-Part Two 3 Comments
Turning Instinct Into Drive 23 Comments
Review of “Your Dog Is Your Mirror” Aug 23 2011 4 Comments
Interesting Commentary on “Your Dog Is Your Mirror” Aug 22 2011 22 Comments
Colorado Public Radio Interview Jul 30 2011 No Comments
Do You Believe In Evolution? Jul 28 2011 9 Comments
Emotion As Energy In Service To The Network Jul 25 2011 No Comments
Principles of Leadership Jul 19 2011 4 Comments
To Play Or Not To Play? Jul 11 2011 16 Comments
Flip Flopping Polarities Jul 08 2011 13 Comments
Better To Receive Than To Give Jul 05 2011 6 Comments
Pavlov’s Theory of Correction Jun 30 2011 11 Comments
Kevin Behan on NPR’s On Point Tomorrow, June 2nd Jun 01 2011 1 Comment
Who Knows You Better than Your Dog? May 31 2011 1 Comment
Science Takes One Step Forward, but then………………… May 27 2011 No Comments
More On Emotional Projection May 20 2011 24 Comments
Why Does The Cat Raise Its Tail? May 11 2011 11 Comments
Choice May 07 2011 17 Comments
The Physical Center-Of-Gravity and Perception May 06 2011 4 Comments
Science on the Heart as the “Network Brain” No Comments
Stump A Chump Redux May 01 2011 12 Comments
Stump A Chump Apr 27 2011 11 Comments
Pavlov’s Discovery Apr 25 2011 8 Comments
New ‘Vacation-Training’ Package for You and Your Pet! Apr 15 2011 No Comments
Fence Duty and Canine Cognition Apr 11 2011 8 Comments
An Amazing Example of Emotional Sonar Mar 30 2011 8 Comments
The Information Is In The Energy Mar 21 2011 48 Comments
Your Thoughts on ‘Your Dog Is Your Mirror’ Mar 17 2011 50 Comments
Upcoming Radio Interviews Mar 10 2011 No Comments
The King’s Speech Mar 06 2011 22 Comments
Brattleboro Book Signing March 4th Feb 28 2011 No Comments
Walks with Dogs Feb 26 2011 No Comments
Kevin Behan Radio Interview on Word of Mouth, NHPR Feb 24 2011 No Comments
The Hungry Mind and the Runner’s High Feb 20 2011 10 Comments
Listen to Kevin Behan on Vermont Public Radio Feb 19 2011 1 Comment
February Book Signing Events for Your Dog Is Your Mirror Feb 05 2011 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.