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Your Dog Is Your Mirror
Kevin Behan
The Emotional Capacity of Our Dogs and Ourselves
New World Library
February 2011
On Sale: February 15, 2011
344 pages ISBN: 1577316967 EAN: 9781577316961 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In Your Dog Is Your Mirror, dog trainer Kevin Behan proposes
a radical new model for understanding canine behavior: a
dog’s behavior and emotion, indeed its very cognition, are
driven by our emotion. The dog doesn’t respond to its owner
based on what the owner thinks, says, or does; it responds
to what the owner feels. And in this way, dogs can actually
put people back in touch with their own emotions. Behan was originally trained under the dominance theory by
his father, John Behan, one of the first in America to make
dog training a career. But he eventually came to believe
that what made the modern dog trainable was not the
dominance hierarchy but the dog’s ability to work as a
cooperative group member in the hunt. This ability then
evolved into an emotional capacity that perfectly
complements human emotion. Behan demonstrates that dogs and humans are connected more
profoundly than has ever been imagined — by heart — and that
this approach to dog cognition can help us understand many
of dogs’ most inscrutable behaviors. This groundbreaking,
provocative book opens the door to a whole new understanding
between species, and perhaps a whole new understanding of
ourselves.
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