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The Dog Listener: A Noted Expert Tells You How to Communicate with Your Dog for Willing Cooperation

  
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The behavioural problems covered in The Dog Listener will sound all too familiar to anyone who shares their life with a canine companion. During the 25 years that Jan Fennell has been working with dogs, she's been increasingly aware of the ways in which communication between man's best friend and ourselves has broken down. Inspired by Monty Roberts, Fennell embraces similar ideas to those found in The Man Who Listens to Horses. Rather than trying to fit human psychology to animals, the starting point is observing how animals communicate, how they structure their groups in the wild and what they think their role is. Initially Fennell looks at the role that dogs have played historically--primarily a working role, in which human and animal worked side by side to the same goal. Many owners flinch as the idea of a dog "working", with associations of oppression and hierarchy. But dogs naturally form a hierarchical society with the strongest, most intelligent dog leading the pack. Humans ... read more.

Written by Jan Fennell.
Published 01 August 2001.
Published by HarperResource.
rrp £16.40.
224 pages Hardcover.
ISBN: 0060199539
ISBN-13: 9780060199531		 
 
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