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    Meet Your Dog: The Game-Changing Guide to Understanding Your Dog's Behavior

    By Kim Brophey

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    Every dog owner knows that along with the joy can come the stress and frustration of behavioral problems, which are expensive to diagnose and treat. Enter Kim Brophey, award-winning canine behavior consultant. Using cutting-edge research, Brophey has developed a groundbreaking system that allows owners to identify what their dog is struggling with, why, and how they can fix it. Brophey's approach is unlike anything that has been published before and will give dog owners a new understanding of what motivates and affects their dog's behavior. Brophey's innovative technique rethinks the way we categorize dogs, and distills information from over twenty scientific disciplines into four comprehensive elements: learning, environment, genetics, and self. With revolutionary tips for specific dog breeds, this book will change the life of every dog owner and lead to happier human-canine relationships.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChronicle Books Digital
    Release dateApr 17, 2018
    ISBN9781452149301

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    • 5/5
      Honestly, probably the best book on canine behavior that I have read. It breaks down traits by breed and gives strategies for dealing with what to the dog is normal but to us humans is problem behavior. She pinned down specifics in both of my dogs that I had no idea were hereditary. There are some things that WE need to be trained on!
    • 4/5
      Nicely produced book with colorful pictures and a nice lay-out. Provides information about the personality charasterists of the various dog breeds. How some dogs are suited for one one ifestyle over another (guarding, versus hunting, etc.). Proides background on the various breeds and how and why they were developed. If you like dogs, are thinking about getting a dog or allready have a dog this book would be a good addition to your book shelf. Also, if you are not sure how to approach training your dog, this book is a nice guide to the best ways to go about it and why.
    • 5/5
      In my many years of interacting with pet dogs, I’ve come across people who seem to have an innate understanding of dogs and some people who are clueless. Whether you possess a natural dog sense or not, Meet Your Dog, by Kim Brophey is well worth reading.If you’ve ever looked to books for advice on training a dog, you may recognize a few common themes:Barbara Woodhouse insisted there were “No bad dogs,” but she explained away dogs who did not fall in line with her training methods as “mistakes in breeding.” The Monks of New Skete have made their daily bread breeding German Shepherds and publishing books on dog training where they focus mainly on what has worked with their German Shepherds. Cesar Millan may get good results whispering to dogs, but will your dog really believe you are a dog? There’s something of value in each of these authors’ approach to dogs, but none have what I consider the whole picture. Meet Your Dog by Kim Brophey doesn’t claim to be a dog training manual. It is what the subtitle claims, “A Game-Changing Guide to Understanding Your Dog’s Behavior.” Understanding. What a concept.This book goes beyond a general “If your dog does this, it means that” guide. It breaks down four components that inform a dog’s behavior. OK, so a pneumonic of L.E.G.S. as the four pillars is a bit cheesy, but it works. And those areas are further refined by distinguishing between ten “primary genetic breed groups”. It makes a lot of sense that a Herding type dog will behave differently, respond differently than a Sight Hound or a Terrier even if you attempt to train them all exactly the same way. The key to enjoying a decent relationship with your dog is understanding him/her as an individual. This book helps you to understand where your dog is coming from, in terms of his/her Learning, Environment, Genetics and Self (that’s the LEGS thing) AND organizes those four factors in a clear, intelligent way. There’s a great deal more science behind this than just anecdotal observations.I was also pleased with the quality of the physical book itself. I had a well made, hardcover copy printed on good quality, heavy, glossy paper. The book feels delightful. I didn’t much care for a glare off the pages while I read in bed, but in regular lighting situations there was no eyestrain. I wouldn’t say this book will solve every problem you and your dog will ever have. That would be a ridiculous burden to put on any print resource. But, this book does offer a new approach to figuring out individual dogs so that you can understand what is going on with your dog and formulate your own plan of how best to handle problems and how to build the best relationship possible.
    • 3/5
      This book claims to offer an entirely new perspective on how to view your dog's behaviour, but beyond grouping dogs in a slightly different way than a lot of us are used to, I didn't feel that it had much new insight to share. The author proposes a L.E.G.S. framework of why your dog acts the way he does: because of his Learning, Environment, Genetics, and Self. She explains how genetics impacts dogs in ten different groups differently, and offers suggestions to how owners can improve their relationship with the particular kinds of dogs they live with. What I appreciated most about the book, and the one thing that did seem novel, was its insistence that our idea of a "bad dog" has been seriously distorted, and that dogs, like people, deserve personal space and the right not to want to be touched or confronted by strange people and animals. We shame owners whose dogs aren't gregarious or when they act fearful or aggressive when in fact the dog's behaviour may be perfectly warranted based on the fact that we are asking it to do something it isn't comfortable with and expecting flawless compliance. The book does not explicitly say so, but it also seems to advocate against the crate-training approach of locking your dog up for hours until it learns to meet every single one of your whims perfectly. It does, without naming names, call out the Cesar Millan approach that regards dogs solely from a pack mentality. When it comes to explaining your dog's behaviour, however, I could have used more specific training suggestions. The author's advice is often expressed in vague statements such as "as long as you stay one step ahead of your dog you'll be fine" or "be sure to help her get a hold of her feelings." I also felt like the author spent a great deal more time discussing the negatives of each type of dog, and that if I had never owned a dog before, many of the descriptions would put me off getting one entirely. Finally, it was particularly frustrating to me as a dachshund owner that this breed was left out of all the categories. My dog behaves like a scent hound, a toy, and a terrier all at the same time, so I just have to assume that some of the advice from these chapters applies. This book may be helpful to some people, but I would definitely recommend that it not be the only one you consult.

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    • 4/5
      This book was really informative on all the different types of dogs there are. It was easily broken down into sections where I could find what I was looking for or you could read it cover-to-cover.