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Dogs Sleeping On The Bed Jan 27 2011 41 Comments
The Deer Is In The Dog Jan 26 2011 No Comments
Dogs Decoded Jan 20 2011 1 Comment
Moving the Pile and Shifting the Paradigm 9 Comments
Tears of Flow Jan 07 2011 5 Comments
Stay up-to-date with NDT in the New Year! Dec 31 2010 No Comments
Heart To Heart: Stories of Transformation Dec 22 2010 33 Comments
Physical Memory On Sixty Minutes Dec 20 2010 No Comments
The Body Plugs The Brain Into The Mind Dec 15 2010 4 Comments
Embodied Cognition Dec 11 2010 5 Comments
Playgrounds Are Network Play At Work 47 Comments
Stump A Chump Dec 10 2010 10 Comments
Moose and Wolf Dec 06 2010 8 Comments
The Emperor Has No Model Nov 28 2010 92 Comments
Kevin Behan’s Upcoming Book to Be Published in January 2011 Nov 24 2010 No Comments
Book Of The Month Club Nov 22 2010 28 Comments
What Does Dunning-Kruger Have To Do With Dogs? Nov 20 2010 181 Comments
“Stroke of Insight” Nov 13 2010 2 Comments
Dogs Are Stupid People Too! 4 Comments
Dogs and Cats Playing Tug Nov 02 2010 7 Comments
Where’s the Beef? Oct 29 2010 15 Comments
The Value In A “Reward” Oct 27 2010 11 Comments
Evidence of Group Consciousness Oct 25 2010 1 Comment
Evolution of a Group Mind Oct 16 2010 16 Comments
Natural Dog Training and Evolution Oct 12 2010 5 Comments
The Evolvability of Dogs Oct 06 2010 44 Comments
Mother Knows Best? Sep 20 2010 10 Comments
How Physical Memory Makes Pleasure In The Moment Sep 17 2010 7 Comments
There Is Only One Energy Sep 15 2010 13 Comments
The Broken Wing Ruse Sep 10 2010 6 Comments
Why Dogs Aren’t Stumped By Cars Aug 27 2010 40 Comments
Stump A Chump Aug 24 2010 36 Comments
Jayward Thinking and Self-Defeating Logic Loops Aug 22 2010 13 Comments
The Heart of the Matter Aug 18 2010 44 Comments
Two Brain Makeup Aug 16 2010 22 Comments
Check Out Lee's Latest Blog Jul 31 2010 9 Comments
Canine Thought Experiment Jul 26 2010 7 Comments
Be The Moose Jul 23 2010 20 Comments
Stump The Chump Continued Jul 21 2010 13 Comments
Thoughts on Whitehead Jul 15 2010 210 Comments
Stump A Chump Jun 30 2010 70 Comments
Your Questions Jun 27 2010 506 Comments
Physical Center of Gravity Jun 24 2010 27 Comments
Stump the Chump Part 2 Jun 23 2010 32 Comments
Stump the Chump Jun 21 2010 72 Comments
Charlie Rose Brain Series 8 Damasio and the Role of Emotion in our Lives May 30 2010 3 Comments
Emotional Projection is a Trans-species Form of Communication May 20 2010 5 Comments
Examples of Emotional Projection in the Wild May 19 2010 6 Comments
Athens Stray Dogs Participate in Protests May 13 2010 5 Comments
Listen to the Q&A with Neil Sattin, Kevin Behan and Your Questions! May 08 2010 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.