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The paperback edition of Howell Book House classic by one of the true innovators of dog training. This innovative training approach addresses dog owners' goals, offering training strategies that simulate problem behaviors and showing how to correct them.
Foreword.

Note to Readers.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

1. Wolves and Dogs.

2. Bitch Basics.

3. Prevention or Correction?

4. A Worthy Cause.

5. Do You Have the Dog You Want?

6. Do Dogs Feel Guilt or Shame?

7. Your Owner Personality or How to Drive Your Dog Nuts in Five Days or Less.

8. Look, See, Observe, Memorize, Insee.

9. RRRR: A Radical Regimen for Recalcitrant Rovers.

10. Setting Up Set-ups.

11. Why Set-ups Sometimes Foul Up.

12. Creative Avoidance.

13. Words Dogs Live By.

14. Praise Problems.

15. The Crate as Cop-out.

16. Our Own "Urine Analysis".

17. Aggressive Advice: An Open Letter to the Owners of Canine Terrorists.

18. To Come or Not to Come.

19. Nutrition Notes.

20. In the Trenches: Inside Information for Individuals "in Dogs"

21. The Trials of Trainers.

22. A Panoply of Problems.

Bibliography.

Index.

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Breeds

Pets

Dog Writers Association of America

People

Dogs

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	21 avril 2008
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780470329436
Langue	English
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People, Pooches and Problems
Understanding, Controlling and Correcting Problem Behavior in Your Dog
JOB MICHAEL EVANS with his Dalmation friend, Sport the spotted wonder dog.
People, Pooches and Problems
Understanding, Controlling and Correcting Problem Behavior in Your Dog
Job Michael Evans
Photography by Kevin Smith
Additional Photography by Levon Mark, Lionel Shenken/Visual Productions, Dealing with Dogs/Campbellville, Ontario and Dealing with Dogs/TV Ontario
Howell Book House
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Copyright 1991 Job Michael Evans, 2001 Elaine Evans
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Evans, Job Michael.
People, pooches problems / Job Michael Evans ; photography by Kevin Smith ; additional photography by Levon Mark [et al.]. -- People, pooches and problems
p. cm.
ISBN 0-7645-6316-5
1. Dogs--Training. - 2. Dogs--Behavior therapy. - 3. Dogs-Psychology. - I. Title.
SF431 .E96 2001
636.7 0887--dc21
00-063449
Originally published in a hardcover edition by Howell Book House.
Cover design by Piper Kaufman
Cover illustrations by Ed Kim
To John Arcangeli
and in memory of Charles Peter Hornek and Thomas Connor
Love lives on beyond good-byes, The truth of us will never die, Our spirits will shine long after we re gone, And so the love lives on. And so the love lives on . - Barry Mann
Contents
Foreword

Note to Readers

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Wolves and Dogs

2. Bitch Basics

3. Prevention or Correction?

4. A Worthy Cause

5. Do You Have the Dog You Want?

6. Do Dogs Feel Guilt or Shame?

7. Your Owner Personality or How to Drive Your Dog Nuts in Five Days or Less

8. Look, See, Observe, Memorize, Insee

9. RRRR: A Radical Regimen for Recalcitrant Rovers

10. Setting Up Set-ups

11. Why Set-ups Sometimes Foul Up

12. Creative Avoidance

13. Words Dogs Live By

14. Praise Problems

15. The Crate as Cop-out

16. Our Own Urine Analysis

17. Aggressive Advice: An Open Letter to the Owners of Canine Terrorists

18. To Come or Not to Come

19. Nutrition Notes

20. In the Trenches: Inside Information for Individuals in Dogs

21. The Trials of Trainers

22. A Panoply of Problems

Bibliography

Index
Foreword
When I was asked to write a foreword for the paperback edition of Job Evans classic book, People, Pooches Problems , I had to initially stop and catch my breath. It had been a long time since I first met Job, who was instrumental in my coming of age as a dog trainer. On that day, I was still a teenager, a mere pup myself. As I stood in front of the door to his apartment on New York City s Upper East Side, my heart was in my throat. He had been asked to judge whether or not I had the potential to be a good dog trainer. All I remember of our first meeting was that he asked me very little. He gave me no direction as he watched me handle his dog. We discussed our mutual passions for teaching and for animals as we strolled through his neighborhood. I had not yet even heard of many of the legendary dog trainers I now collaborate with on a regular basis, but at that moment I felt the wing of Job embrace me and tuck me into the circle of dog lovers who are lucky enough to be called dog trainers.
Over the next several years, Job was to become my mentor and my friend. Now, as I sit in front of my computer, I wish I could see his expression at the news that I have written several books of my own since that first meeting. And although it has been five years since Job passed away, in rereading his book (as I often have throughout the years), I noted that there isn t a word that could be dismissed as dated or unfair. What he taught me then still holds today: We must take a holistic approach when we work with Recalcitrant Rovers. Naughty actions are never just the dog s fault; they are a result of how the dog and the owner are interacting. In this book, he promises no quick fixes, but offers an approach that examines all of the dynamics affecting dog behavior. In a style that is truly Job, he forces his readers, as he did his clients and friends, to ask themselves: Who are you to your dog? The answer to this question is the primary point Job urges you to discover.
Read this book, then reread it. The relationship between you and your dog will improve, and your life will be enriched. As Job taught me, it is the things we work hardest for that mean the most.
And Job s truths will never die. I conclude this foreword with a letter to my friend, Job Michael Evans
Dear Job,
I know in my heart that you re looking down and smiling at the influence you ve had on dog owners everywhere. No one who ever met you or read one of your many books will forget your candor and your insistence on responsible dog ownership. If the dogs could, they would give you a 21-tail salute.
Your faithful followers
Sarah Hodgson Katonah, New York August 2000
Note to Readers
Before embarking on any behavioral program for your dog, take it to your veterinarian for a complete medical evaluation. Since many medical and behavioral problems can overlap, it is important that you rule out any physical causes for problem behavior in advance of behavioral therapy.
Acknowledgments
I have long wanted to write a book on problem dogs and problem owners, and I originally thought the whole process would be a downbeat affair entailing endless days of composing critical prose. I soon found out that even problems could be joked about-perhaps problems should be joked about even as solutions are sought-and that very rarely is a dog problem the end of the world anyway. Everyone who has read my other books knows that I take the human/canine bond quite seriously, but I ve always been able to see the funny side of the relationship. One reason for that is I have surrounded myself with smart, funny, sensitive people from the world of dogs who have greatly aided my dog work and especially the completion of this book. I d like to thank them here.
My love and thanks to John Arcangeli, who typed and computerized the whole tract. I don t understand computers. He does. He even likes them. He has a Dalmatian, Sport (so named because That way everyone in the Bronx will think his name is Spot ), so he must be sane. Sport is pictured throughout the book doing various naughty things-of course all the shots are fakes (and if you believe that, I have a bridge I d like to sell you).
I m grateful also to Carol Lea Benjamin, dog trainer and writer extraordinaire , for encouragement and endearing support, as well as to trainers Jack and Wendy Volhard, Marie Ehrenberg, Don Arner, Michele Siegal, Terese Van Buren and the members of the Society of North American Dog Trainers, a pioneering group of which I am a proud member.
Several members of the veterinary community refer clients with problem dogs my way, and I thank Dr. Lewis Berman, Dr. Sally Haddock, Dr. Jane Bicks, Dr. Peter Kross, Dr. Stephanie Hazen and my good friend Dr. Myrna Milani.
I am also grateful to the convention staffs at the Ohio State Veterinary Medical Conference, the Michigan Veterinary Conference, and the Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association Conference who enlisted me for seminars several years running-I ve learned as well as taught at these excellent conventions.
My thanks to the staff at the American Kennel Club library, especially the head librarian Roberta Vesley, as well as to the members of the Dog Writers Association of America. My research at the AKC library and my contacts in DWAA greatly aided writing this book. My thanks to my editors at Howell Book House, especially Seymour Weiss.
In Canada, special thanks goes to trainer Judy Emmert, head of Dealing with Dogs in Campbellville, Ontario, and her assistant trainer Joanne Nimigan. Ms. Emmert s popular TV Ontario series of the same name flooded her school s switchboard with training inquiries-and generated many photographs for this book! Most of all, I am grateful for the friendship and support my Canadian connection has given me on professional and personal levels.
Sincere thanks to my photographers the late Kevin Smith, Levon Mark, Lionel Shenken/Visual Productions, Dealing with Dogs/Campbellville, Ontario, and Dealing with Dogs/TV Ontario and especially to my canine models that withstood hours of photographic sessions and sometimes had to take a fake correction to illustrate a point for readers. You should know that some, but by no means all, of the shots of dogs doing dastardly deeds contained herein had to be set up. My canine models are certainly not up for canonization, but I wouldn t want anyone to think that Dalmatians, Dobermans, Collies or any other breed shown are inherently problem dogs. Finally, my thanks to over 7,000 clients over twenty years who made me laugh, made me cry, but for the most part listened intently, were open to being educated, identified difficulties, changed some aspects of their own behavior and thus became people without problem pooches.
Job Michael Evans New York City
Introduction
By the time this book sees publication I will be celebrating my twentieth year in dogs. For that fact alone some people have remarked that I should have been committed. Perhaps they re right. But there s a difference between being committ