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Understanding Your Dog For Dummies (For Dummies (Pets)) |  | Authors: Stanley Coren PhD, Sarah Hodgson
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 563497
Media: Paperback
Edition: illustrated edition
Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0471768731
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.70887
EAN: 9780471768739
ASIN: 0471768731
Publication Date: May 29, 2007
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Product Description
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the prospect of getting a dog or nervous about caring for the one you’ve already brought home, now you can relax. Understanding Your Dog for Dummies helps you recognize not only why your dog behaves the way she does, but in a way that enables you to parlay that into a well-behaved companion who listens (and sits, and speaks, and comes, etc.). Whether your pooch is a mixed breed or purebred, she has a distinct identity that makes her unique. The first step in understanding your dog is to respect the honorable task she was originally bred for and to identify how these inbred impulses influence her personality and behavior. In essence, you need to speak her language if you expect her to learn to understand yours. Understanding Your Dog for Dummies gives you everything you need to learn to understand your pooch’s unique dialect of “Doglish”—and shows you how to take on the role as pack leader to give your dog the cues, guidance, and consistency she needs to shape and develop good behaviors. Inside you’ll discover how to: - Read your dog’s body language
- Communicate with your dog
- Interpret your dog’s breed-specific traits
- Correct dog-behavior-gone-bad
- Counter anxiety-based behavior
- Understand and resolve aggressive behavior
- And so much more!
Think of this book as Doglish 101—a prerequisite for every human member of your dog’s family. Now, let the training begin!
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 understanding your dog for dummies September 18, 2009
Caitlin M. Tolland (Berkeley, CA)
very useful for understanding my dog. I find ethology incredibly interesting, and it's so fun to learn what my dog's reactions to the world is, and how they differ from my own. I feel it's made me a better guardian.
 Great book hampered by poor Kindle formatting September 12, 2009
Frank J. Perricone (People's Republic of Vermont)
The content itself is excellent, with clear, easy to read, and helpful advice throughout, well organized, and focused on the stuff you need to know. There was more of the background information than I usually expect from a For Dummies book, but I found this to be helpful and ultimately necessary, so that's just as well.
However, the Kindle edition of the book was seriously hampered by poor formatting. Like many For Dummies books, this makes extensive use of tables, but the tables simply didn't work in the Kindle edition. They often spilled off the right edge of the screen leaving some parts entirely unreadable. Even the bits on the screen were mangled with no space between columns (so words bumped right up against one another), confused word-wrapping, lines repeated, and parts not lining up.
In some places, graphics were hard to read. Even the little comics on each chapter were sometimes impossible to make out.
The book was still useful as the body text covered the biggest and most important parts, and the tables and graphics only extended the topic. But I would be hesitant to buy more For Dummies books for the Kindle until I learn that they're making more of an effort to make them work on the Kindle. My guess is they fed their source files into some converter program and then shoved the result out to the world without doing a review or any tweaking, and it shows.
 formatting April 22, 2009
Michael Moran
The book is very good and informative. The main problems is that it has many sections that are broken down into columns and these become difficult and sometimes impossible to read. Do not buy the e book if you really are looking to understand your dog. Go the few extra bucks and get the paperback one.
 Kindle version is unreadable April 21, 2009
R. Lowney
First let me say that my one star is no reflection on the content; that is great. I have the Kindle version and virtually none of the charts or tables is readable. They are simply a jumbled mess. Why they cannot be formatted correctly escapes me, but even more - why publish a kindle version that you know is unreadable? I am a big supporter of e-books and I hate to see this type of shoddy work go out. If you are unable to format 2 and 3 column charts, so be it. But do not publish them! I feel I should ask for my money back but I won't because I want to continue to support e-books.
 Incredibly helpful tool July 31, 2008
Suzanne Smith (las vegas)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is a very useful tool for owners in terms of helping them understand a dog's mind. The book is incredibly detailed and extensively describes the stages in a dog's psychological development. It also has sections on handling problems as well as training. The best thing about this book is it gives concrete step by step instructions on training and commands that are easy to understand and follow. It also has an extensive section on interpreting body language and barks. I've read Cesar Milan's books and I find them useless because they're too abstract. They're more a testimonial to his skills than useful information for the average owner. This book is much more informative and helpful.
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