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From School For The Dogs’ owner Annie Grossman:
A modern and science-based approach to changing behavior without coercion and force.
Find out what positive reinforcement is (and isn’t), learn how to decode dog body language, develop smart management tools and learn building-block exercises that will help you train effectively using reward-based methods.
Whether you've just brought a new dog into your home or you're wanting to teach an old one new tricks, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DOG WITH LOVE + SCIENCE will help you achieve your goals using techniques rooted in the science of behavior.
Woven into this lively how-to guide is the century-long history of positive reinforcement training, from Pavlov's dogs and Thorndike’s cat to Skinner's pigeons and Pryor’s dolphins. Find out how an understanding of how to train a dog offers a glimpse into possibilities of seeing all behavior anew.
What's Inside
🐕Find out how just a few basic exercises, coupled with a focus on core concepts, can help you become your dog's favorite teacher.
🐕Learn how to read dog body language and get desired behaviors using a "Training Triad" approach to teach (and solve problems) with a focus on setting up your dog for success.
🐕Discover the winding history of the science of behavior and how it can be understood through dog training in a way that may inform how you think about the way you "train" other "animals" in your life, and maybe yourself.
🐕Build your ability to make informed choices about how you treat your dog -- and others you love, too. Dog may be "man's best friend," but we are still living in a time where they are too often abused in the name of training. You can help change the narrative by thinking about how to be a "good dog trainer" with your dog.
Advance Praise
"From Darwin to Pavlov and beyond, this is the best dog training book I've ever read—in fact, if I wrote a dog training book, I'd want it to be this one."
--Seth Godin, author of This Is Marketing
"This book takes its people—dogs and humans—into worlds of deep connection and wise education with each other. Love and Science, indeed."
--Donna Haraway, Ph.D., author of The Companion Species Manifesto
"Annie Grossman doesn't just teach us how to train our dogs; she brings us into her world with personal stories that touch the heart and illuminate the mind. She leads us on a three-part journey, starting with our historical mistakes in dog training, then covering foundational theories guiding modern methods, and concluding with specific instructions for at-home training. This book should be on the reading list of every new pet guardian. Both dogs and their people will benefit tremendously from it."
--Andre Yeu, CPDT-KA, KPA CTP, Founder of When Hounds Fly and Karen Pryor Academy Faculty
"There is only one way to teach dogs what we would like them to do to adapt to an increasingly demanding human oriented world and that is to use positive methods filled with respect, compassion, and love for our canine companions. Dogs are highly sentient beings and are not unconditional lovers although they may behave as if they are to please us. Using the latest science and wonderful stories, Annie Grossman shows us how to allow dogs to express as much of their dogness as possible and have satisfying dog-appropriate lives without forcing them to do things they'd rather not do. When dogs feel safe and trust us, it's a win-win for all--what could be better?” -- Marc Bekoff, Ph.D., author of Dogs Demystified
