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be your dog's best friend Jan 01, 2006
Rebeccasreads enthusiastically recommends YOUR DOG IS WATCHING YOU as a book which will make you look at your dog in very different ways.
Jim Heath's family had always had dogs. As a boy he didn't give them a second thought, they were just there. Then he & his wife got a little male Jack Russell, which they named Mono -- you'll have to read the book to find out why. They doted on, played with & patronized the pup. Ergo, he grew to doghood with no training or social manners. He dragged his bemused humans into dog attack after dog attack as they walked the narrow proscribed areas where they lived -- in the Antipodes.
After one particularly hair-raising encounter with a loose German Shepherd Jim sought salvation. Everyone had ideas, mostly bad & Jim spent a small fortune on pepper spray, fog horns & cattle prods -- even resorting to carrying a spear.
Still, like a law-abiding human being, our Jim continued to keep Mono on a short leash & reacting to incoming dogs inappropriately until... he discovered Jacquie Humphrey - dog psychologist. That she was also a human psychologist perplexed our Jim, after all it was his dog who had problems, right? During his first desperate phone call with her, he gleaned some worthy advice & started to put it into practice.
He also read the books Jacquie recommended, & a whole new territory of thought opened up, & our Jim was finally on the path to becoming the leader of his pack & his dog's best friend. Some of what he learnt is simple common sense -- something in short supply these days -- much of what our Jim gleaned is about the long story of wolf & man, & the social life of dogs -- as in peeing, smells, hierarchies, body language & the "getting to know you dances."
At 129 pages YOUR DOG IS WATCHING YOU is a delightful read, & only 4 stars? Because it's unedited & poorly formatted -- not one of BookSurge's better editions, however, our Jim's sense of humor will pull you along, eager to find out what's on the next page.
A good primer of what NOT to do to your pet as well as how to train yourself as its owner, & for all dog-lovers, no matter where in the world you & your dog go a-walking.
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