I recently picked up an audiobook read by the author Jennifer Arnold, titled "Through a Dog's Eyes" and then realized I had watched a PBS special with the same title awhile back, so I was not expecting much new from the book. Was I wrong! Jennifer has spent the last twenty years preparing Service Dogs for both adults and children with a variety of special needs through her non-profit organization ( none of the recipients are charged for the dogs ).
This in not a book about dog training, but one about behavior and cognition in animals and in dogs in particular, with many excellent scientific references and a lot of her heartwarming personal experience to back it up.
Her sensitivity and insight are amazing. I highly recommend it to anyone truly wanting to understand the people dog interaction and how amazing dogs really are. So many crude training methods do dogs a real disservice, this is both well documented and refreshing,and all can find in it sonething to apply to their own dog. I did.
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Thanks for sharing. I look forward to reading it!
Let me know what you think of it :-)
I will check it out! Thanks for posting!
Dino has not seen that. We will look next time we are in a book store. I just checked and you can watch that on line.
Great Steve ! The PBS show is well worth watching as well. Maybe you can post the link.
It will be interesting to discuss some of the point Jennifer Arnold makes after you 've all read the book or listened to the audio version. I trained my own Service Dog, so can relate to that part also. Looking forward to your views.
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