In This Chapter
- Discovering how a good leader communicates
- Understanding why every dog needs a trusted leader
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Showing posts with label Understanding Your Dog. Show all posts
Ten Ways to Become Your Dog’s Leader
Ten Common Misunderstandings
In This Chapter
- Knowing what hugs, kisses, and tail wags mean to dogs
- Understanding the expression of guilt and spite in dogs
- Exploring what leadership and control mean in the dog’s eyes
- Recognizing how your stress affects your dog
Ten Forms of Silent Communication
In This Chapter
- Using your body posture, eye contact, and signals to direct your dog.
- Bonding with your dog through silence and serenity
Understanding and Resolving Aggressive Behavior
In This Chapter
- Understanding the signs and causes of canine aggression
- Assessing whether your dog has aggressive tendencies
- Discovering the importance of breed differences
- Controlling and retraining the aggressive dog
Countering Anxiety-Based Behavior
In This Chapter
- Knowing how to recognize fear
- Dealing with submissive urination
- Curing separation anxiety
- Treating your dog’s fears and phobias
Addressing and Solving Problem Behavior
In This Chapter
- Understanding the psychology of dealing with a dog’s bad behaviors
- Crating your dog
- Correcting excessive barking
- Teaching a dog not to jump on people
- Housetraining a dog
Happy Training, Happy Tails
In This Chapter
- Adding levity to your training approach
- Discovering the best approach to suit your dog’s age and personality
- Incorporating the directions into everyday life
- Trusting your dog off-lead
Helping Your Dog Learn from Everyday Living
In This Chapter
- Creating consistency
- Highlighting responses through repetition
- Identifying a good correction
- Letting your dog teach himself
Inspiring Behavior with Motivational Techniques
In This Chapter
- Sorting out training tools, from treat cups to clicker training
- Discovering what motivates your dog to respond
- Speeding up your dog’s behavioral memory
- Understanding the role of a perfectly timed response
Reading and Communicating as Your Dog Ages
In This Chapter
- Knowing how old your dog really is
- Checking for and adapting to age-related changes in hearing and vision
- Coping with the effects of aging on a dog’s mind
Meeting the Needs of Your Growing Puppy
In This Chapter
- Recognizing how your puppy’s needs affect his behavior
- Teaching your puppy his first lessons
- Understanding your puppy’s emotional development
- Knowing how to socialize your puppy from the start
Sensory Perceptions
In This Chapter
- Discovering what the world looks like from your dog’s perspective
- Understanding how human and canine visions differ
- Listening to the world through a dog’s ears
- Sniffing through life using a dog’s nose
Interpreting Your Dog’s Breed-Specific Traits
In This Chapter
- Grouping dogs into breeds
- Understanding breed groups
- Sorting out mixed breeds
- Predicting dog behaviors from breeds
Identifying Your Dog’s Individuality
In This Chapter
- Testing the personality of your puppy and adult dog
- Understanding canine personality types
- Evaluating your dog’s personality
Seeing Life from Your Dog’s Perspective
In This Chapter
- Knowing what your dog thinks about all day long
- Organizing the hierarchy in your home
- Encouraging good manners
- Conditioning your dog to share objects and food
Communicating with Your Dog
In This Chapter
- Interpreting what your dog is saying
- Decoding body language
- Listening for verbal clues
- Reading facial expressions
Understanding Your Dog
In This Chapter
- Discovering how dogs came to be human companions
- Understanding that dogs aren’t wolves
- Recognizing that dogs are perpetual puppies
- Deciphering and dealing with hunting and chasing instincts
- Peeking into the sex life of dogs
A Dog for Life: Dog Psychology 101
In This Chapter
- Looking at life through your dog’s senses
- Respecting your differences, appreciating your similarities
- Identifying age requirements
