News & Events

Stay up-to-date with NDT in the New Year! Dec 31, 2010

Over the last year or so, we’ve been pleased to be able to grow the NDT community over our various social media channels. We’re happy to announce our newest installment, the Your Dog Is Your Mirror Facebook page. Visit the page by clicking here. We certainly will not neglect the growing community at the main […]

Kevin Behan’s Upcoming Book to Be Published in January 2011 Nov 24, 2010

This January, New World Library will be releasing Kevin’s second book, “Your Dog Is Your Mirror: The Emotional Capacity of Our Dogs and Ourselves”. It is currently available for pre-order online, on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other major booksellers. About the Book “Man’s best friend” is more than a phrase to Kevin Behan. He […]

Seminar: Journey to the Heart of the Dog – Rowe, MA Mar 17, 2010

Click to Register Online Now the subject of increased scientific inquiry, the connection between dogs and human beings is far more profound than ever imagined. Dogs are the only animal to integrate themselves into every aspect of human existence. Dogs know us “by heart”—this is what bonds humans and dogs and each dog to its […]

News from Trisha Selbach: Jan 13, 2010

Natural Dog Training’s own Event Coordinator and training guru, Trisha Selbach, is now representing a new collection of limited edition prints featuring dogs, cats and horses with their fashionable humans, in conjunction with the Mark Shaw Photographic Archive. Mark Shaw, who in the 50s and 60s was a leading fashion and celebrity photographer, is best […]

NDT T-shirt Line! Dec 02, 2009

The Natural Dog Training T-Shirt Line is Here! For those of you who have worked personally with Kevin, you know that there are certain expressions in the NDT land that just hit home. “Be the Moose”, “Thinking is the Box”, “If you ARE the charge, you are IN charge” and many others. Natural Dog Training […]

October 23 – 25 Seminar: Journey to the Heart of the Dog Oct 04, 2009

The connection between dogs and human beings is far more profound than ever imagined. The only animal to integrate themselves into every aspect of human existence, dogs know us “by heart.” Learn what bonds humans and dogs and each dog to its owner. Thinking is what separates our two species; feelings are what we have […]

New NDT Blog! Jul 16, 2009

Trisha Selbach, Natural Dog Training’s Event Coordinator, recently decided to add another pet to the family, and found Hero, a German Shepherd puppy. Like she did with her now eight-year old dog Athos, Trisha will be raising her new puppy the ‘natural way’, using the Natural Dog Training method and techniques. This time around, Trisha […]

Rowe Seminar – Journey to the Heart Jun 01, 2009

Kevin Behan and the NDT staff delivered a great seminar at Rowe! The weekend started out with discussion about theory, personal reflection on pets and some simple training ideas. The rest of the weekend was a mixture of hands-on training in the field, as well as more in-depth information on Kevin’s theory. The Spring Rowe […]

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.