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 Best Book For Understanding Dog Body Language May 27, 2007
Cheryl (Long Island, NY)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I volunteer at a shelter and am fascinated by temperment testing. While I have the benefit of watching a wonderful temperment tester each week, reading this book has been an incredible education. Now when I watch dogs tested, I can see what our tester is seeing... the freezing, the whale eye, the stress behaviors, and so on. I'm learning to better judge how a given dog reacts to other dogs or to cats.
For me, the benefits include being better able to know how to handle the dogs because I can better judge their personalities and shape my behavior to them, know how the dogs I handle are reacting to various stimuli, and be able to tell perspective adopters more about the dogs than I previously could.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who either works with dogs or owns a dog. You can't go wrong. The photos are so clear and the writing so easily understandable, that everyone can absorb the information. Be warned though... you'll want to read this book over and over and over again until the pages are well worn. It's just THAT good!
Everything about Canine Body Language May 20, 2007
Brenda Gadd (Kansas)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Maybe too much for the casual dog owner, this book has everything those of us who are dedicated canine lovers need to know. Very valuable tool for training classes. This book gets down to the sublties in body language. Fascinating.
Getting to Know About Your Dogs - A Much Closer View May 19, 2007
Virginia A. Ede (Sydney, Australia)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
As I am studying to be a "Bowen Therapy Practitioner for Animals" or CCMRT, it is an important requirement for me to better my knowledge about our canine friends. I was recommended to obtain and read a few different titles so as to have a wide coverage of information.
After acquiring my first book "Canine Body Language" by Brenda Aloff, I realised just how little I did know about the intricacies of the canine communication, and just how polite their language with each other is.
This book opened a whole new world for me and I started noticing the understated communication that my own dogs conducted with each other.
I absolutely love this book with all of its photos and explanations. It makes it so much easier to notice what is happening just beneath your nose when it is so subtle.
This book is an absolute must for anyone wishing to understand their dog better, and it will certainly lead you to be a much better owner.
I would highly recommend it to all animal lovers.
Canine Body Language May 15, 2007
D. P. Cockerton (Sacramento, CA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Until we received this book I had not realized how clearly our dog was "speaking" to us. A Picture is worth a thousand words. There are some things that can't be described but a picture says it all.
A Great Picture Book to Enhance our Understanding of Dogs March 24, 2007
Kate Nicoll (Wallingford,CT)
26 out of 27 found this review helpful
A great picture anthology of dogs being dogs. This is a very helpful book in that is captures a snapshot of canine emotion to help increase our awareness of dog-dog and dog-human communication. I have often utilized this book in my therapy work with children to help describe emotions. Well-organized by themes with clear photos.
Kate Nicoll, LCSW
author of Soul Friends: Finding Healing with Animals
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