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Dogs Are People Too- The Practical Guide to Understanding and Training Your Dog (because you're more alike than you think!) is a comprehensive guide for novice to experienced owners on how to best understand and interact with their dogs for utmost success.

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Publié par	First Edition Design Publishing
Date de parution	30 avril 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781622879991
Langue	English

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Dogs Are People Too
The Practical Guide to Understanding and Training Your Dog
(because you're more alike than you think!)

Mary Jean Alsina , CPDT-KA, PCT-A, M.A
Dogs Are People Too
The Practical Guide to Understanding and Training Your Dog
(because you're more alike than you think!)

Copyright ©2016 Mary Jean Alsina

ISBN 978-1506-901-85-5 PRINT
ISBN 978-1622-879-99-1 eBook

LCCN 2016936852

April 2016

Published and Distributed by
First Edition Design Publishing, Inc.
P.O. Box 20217, Sarasota, FL 34276-3217
www.firsteditiondesignpublishing.com

ALL R I G H T S R E S E R V E D. No p a r t o f t h i s b oo k pub li ca t i o n m a y b e r e p r o du ce d, s t o r e d i n a r e t r i e v a l s y s t e m , o r t r a n s mit t e d i n a ny f o r m o r by a ny m e a ns ─ e l e c t r o n i c , m e c h a n i c a l , p h o t o - c o p y , r ec o r d i n g, or a ny o t h e r ─ e x ce pt b r i e f qu ot a t i o n i n r e v i e w s , w i t h o ut t h e p r i o r p e r mi ss i on o f t h e a u t h o r or publisher .
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1 The Hierarchy Of Needs 1
Physiological Needs . 3
Safety . 5
Love And Belonging . 8
Esteem .. 11
Self-Actualization . 13

Chapter 2 How Are We Like Our Canine Buddies? 18
Jealous Much? . 21
The Happy Center Of The Brain . 22

Chapter 3 Putting The Physiological Similarities To Use In Training 25
Basic Needs Of Humans And Dogs . 25
The Use Of Food In Training . 28
I'm Not Feeling Well! Leave Me Alone! . 30
I Want It, I Want It, I Want It!! . 33
Dominance My Arse . 35
When The Going Gets Tough . 38

Chapter 4 Putting The Safety Similarities To Use In Training 40
What Do You Expect? I'm Just A Dog! . 43
Please Protect Me As You Would A Family Member . 49
Give Me Structure! . 55
Fear-Free Vets . 60

Chapter 5 Putting The Love And Belonging Similarities To Use In Training 64
Let's Be Friends . 65
Body Language To Communicate . 68

Chapter 6 Putting The Esteem Similarities To Use In Training 74
Fish Can't Climb Trees . 74
Building Esteem With Socialization . 75
Teach Me So I Understand . 79
Explain And Reinforce . 81
How Should I Train? . 82
Stop Barking At Me! . 87
Ouch!! . 88
Get Off Me!! . 89
Steal And Destruct . 90
Please Don't Hurt Me . 90
Empower Me! . 92

Chapter 7 Putting The Self-Actualization Similarities To Use In Training 95

References 103
About the Author 110

Acknowledgments

As you can imagine, undertaking something like writing a book is not a simple task by any means. The support that I have received from various people must be acknowledged because without them, this book would not be here.

First and foremost, I would be nowhere without the support of my husband, Izzy. When I first began my road into the dog training world and started my business, I had no idea how it would pan out. Izzy stood behind me the whole way. Although he never verbalized it, I knew he was nervous about how it would pay the bills, but here we are. Without his belief in me and unending support, traveling this amazing, successful road and completing this book would not have been possible. I love him now and forever and thank him from the bottom of my heart for standing by me.

To my son, Jason, I thank him for being such an inspiration in the writing of this book. Without even knowing it, he helped me develop many of the ideas and provided many “light bulb” moments for me as the book progressed. He is one of my biggest cheerleaders when it comes to my business and I am an extremely fortunate mother to have him as my son.

To Bob Martin, my longest and closest friend, who has been my cheerleader since day one and someone who taught me about unconditional love. Sarcasm and all, I love him and thank him for always standing by my side.

To John Visconti, who is one of the best friends and mentors anyone could hope for. The amount of information I have learned from him over the years is endless and the friendship we have is irreplaceable.

To Susan Nilson, my wonderful editor, who helped me realize how to take my time and do things the right way. She is a brilliant, kind, and talented woman that helped me more than she knows in the writing of this book. I owe her a lifetime full of rice milk and vegan cupcakes!

To Sierra, my darling bomb-proof rescue dog. I consider myself to have hit the jackpot rescuing a dog like her considering she was found wandering the streets. She is smart, sweet, affectionate, hard-working, and welcomes every dog we pet sit into our home like she's known them forever. I learn from her every day and love her to bits.

To Jackie, Angel, and Pharaoh, my sweet canine angels. I miss them every day and they will always have a huge piece of my heart.

To Tanya, Steve, every force-free trainer out there in the trenches, and the Pet Professional Guild, all of whom are hard at work every single day to show that science-based training for all sentient beings is the only way forward – for so many reasons.

To every dog and owner that I have had the pleasure of working with, you have all contributed to this book more than you know and I thank you for allowing me to be a part of your life now as you were a part of mine. I love you all!
How the Relationship Began

“We see dog behavior and human behavior as a convergence. Dogs became similar to humans because they had to live in a human social environment. This will tell us quite a lot about human social evolution."
- Dr. Ádám Miklósi,
Director of the Family Dog Project and head of ethology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary (n.d.)

How many times do you feel like you are dealing with a child (or spouse for that matter) when you are getting frustrated with your dog? Do you find yourself saying, “Stop that, Jason!” instead of “Stop that, Fido!” and vice versa? Do you feel that Fido does things “on purpose” just to irritate you like, say, a co-worker might? Do you feel like you need the canine equivalent of Supernanny to help you out? In fact, Supernanny could be just what you need given that the sheer number of uncanny similarities between human and canine behavior is becoming more apparent as the body of research grows. Scientists and canine behavior professionals are finding increasingly that dogs behave more like their human counterparts than we may care to admit. Now, I won't go getting all anthropomorphic on you, but the facts are there. If you can successfully navigate through many human issues, you can apply the same techniques to your four-legged friend with great success. As a result, you will achieve more fulfilling relationships in both the canine and human areas of your life.
This is not a book on how to train your dog to sit or stay. Nor am I going to delve into a million reasons as to why dog training these days is, tragically, split down the middle when it comes to philosophies. What this book will do instead is clearly lay out how you can approach your understanding of human and dog relationships in a very similar fashion and find increased success in both. If I had a nickel for every time a client asked me if I can clicker* train husbands or kids, I would be a millionaire! The answer is yes, you can. I have used clickers in lectures with humans and witnessed the same smiles and excitement that I get from dogs while training. Humans don't necessarily need to see the clicker, but the scientific principles work beautifully and can be applied in virtually any context. You can use the principles of canine and human behavior in many areas to achieve similar, and, more importantly, desirable results.
It is commonly accepted that dogs became domesticated over a period of thousands of years. Some believe that not only did humans domesticate dogs, but that dogs actually had a hand in domesticating humans too. Dogs were the first domesticated animals with whom humans developed a close attachment.
According to certified applied animal behaviorist and renowned author, Dr. Karen Overall (2016), human and dog cognition “seems similar, and humans and dogs have virtually identical social systems. Dogs' cognition appears similar to humans' (consider co-evolution) and they can learn by watching both other dogs and humans.”
At the 2015 Pet Professional Guild Summit in Tampa, Florida where Overall gave the keynote address, she admitted that she was not taken very seriously when she first brought up this concept many years ago. Groves (1999) meanwhile, despite much criticism, states that humans were domesticated as a result of the actions of dogs: “The human-dog relationship amounts to a very long lasting symbiosis. Dogs acted as humans’ alarm systems, trackers, and hunting aides, garbage disposal facilities, hot water bottles, and children’s guardians and playmates. Humans provided dogs with food and security. The relationship was stable over 100,000 years or so, and intensified in the Holocene into mutual domestication. Humans domesticated dogs and dogs domesticated humans.”
In comparison to other primates, humans that lived thousands of years ago have been shown to experience an actual decrease in certain senses because they relied heavily on their dogs to do certain tasks for them, such as sniffing out the scents of prey and alerting to approaching or impending danger. This has been observed through the brain shrinkage evident in the areas of the brain dedicated to these specific senses. Dogs’ brains meanwhile, have decreased 20 percent in size due to the loss of tissue in the areas used for learning and cognition. While humans were relying on dogs to take care of audio and olfactory needs, dogs were counting on the humans to do their fair share of thinking for them in return. Since the canine brain has decreased in size due to domestication, Groves would lead us to believe that the human brain must also have shrunk, due to dogs’ reciprocal domestica