“Can’t We All Just Get Along?”

Simple Tips for Living Happily with Your Dog Human beings and dogs have coexisted interdependently for thousands of years. In developing countries and in primitive societies, dogs are not always treated with the degree of love and kindness we give them in the United States. However, dogs in those places don’t seem to have all the issues and neuroses that they have here, either....

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Cesar’s Fulfillment Formula for a Balanced and Healthy Dog

This book isn’t a “how-to” manual. As I mentioned in the introduction, I’m not here to teach you how to get your dog to recognize voice commands or hand signals; I’m not here to teach you how to properly make your dog “heel” or do tricks. There are plenty of guides and books related to dog training, and many qualified specialists out there who can do that. But although my...

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Dogs in the Red Zone

Dangerous Aggression Imagine this—you come home to your upscale apartment building after doing a little grocery shopping. The elevator stops at your floor and the door slides open. The first, and last, things you see are two snarling 120-pound Presa Canario/mastiffs breaking away from their owner’s leash and charging straight toward y...

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Cesar’s Way: Issues

How We Screw Up Our DogsAlmost all dogs are born naturally balanced. If they live as they do in nature—in stable packs—they spend their days in peace and fulfillment. If any dog in a pack becomes unstable, that dog will be forced to leave the pack or will be taken out by the other pack members. It sounds harsh, but it is nature’s way of ensuring that the pack survive and continue...

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Cesar's Way: Power of the Pack

There’s an aspect of your dog’s psychology that I only touched on in the Dog Psychology, but it couldn’t be a more important concept when it comes to understanding the relationship between you and the dogs in your life. This is the concept of the pack. Your dog’s pack mentality is one of the greatest natural forces involved in shaping his or her behavi...

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Dog Psychology

No Couch RequiredIn the If We Could Talk to the Animals, I define and discuss energy as a concept of communication between humans and animals. Whether you know it or not, you and your dog are communicating all the time through energy, with body language and scent thrown in for good measure. But how do you interpret the messages your dog is sending you? And how do you know...

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If We Could Talk to the Animals

The Language of EnergyWhat is the communication style you use with your dog? Do you implore him to come to you, while he refuses, continuing to run down the street after a neighborhood squirrel? When your dog steals your favorite slipper, do you talk baby talk to him to try to get it back? Do you scream at the top of your lungs for your dog to get off the furniture, while...

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Growing Up with Dogs

A View from the Other Side of the BorderWe woke up before the sun, those summer mornings on the farm. There wasn’t any electricity, so once the sky turned dim in the evenings, there was little for us kids to do in the candlelight. While the adults talked softly into the night, my older sister and I would try to drift off to sleep in the stifling heat. We needed no alarm clocks;...

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