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| The Dog's Mind: Understanding Your Dog's Behavior (Howell Reference Books) | 
 enlarge | Author: Bruce Fogle
Creator: Anne B. Wilson
Publisher: Howell Book House
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 27452
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 220
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0876055137
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.7
UPC: 021898055132
EAN: 9780876055137
ASIN: 0876055137
Publication Date: October 14, 1992
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| Customer Reviews:
 Helping a New Breed of Dog Owner July 4, 2000
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very simply put, I found the book great! A bit technical at the start, but as you work through it, it becomes so clear. It helped me truly understand a world I knew so little about. Dr. Fogle breaks it down and puts it right there. One must understand the mind of a dog before you can work with it - successfully!
 philosophical comments May 4, 2000
8 out of 14 found this review helpful
The difficulty with a book with a title such as this is that it promises too much. Richard Feynman observed that if we could truly understand how a dog's mind works we would understand how our minds work. We really don't understand either the one or the other. We also have not really probed the limitations, which means in reverse the capabilities, of a dog's mind. The very sheepdogs he mentions in passing, who can read hand signals at the distance of a kilometer, can learn and respond appropriately to over a hundred different commands, either spoken, whistled, or signaled manually. They are also notoriously adept at picking up the significance of words or phrases that they are not deliberately taught. No attempt, however, and few have been made, to explore the potentialities of the canine mind, can teach us exactly how that mind works. There is some question however whether the current denigration of the capabilities of the canine mind in comparison with the lower primates is really defensible. In contrast to the assertions of George Gallup, our dogs do recognize themselves in mirrors and exhibit great delight in themselves when they master a new task, two self-awareness tests which he restricts to the great apes. Let's keep our minds open.
 Reader in Denver May 3, 2000
0 out of 9 found this review helpful
Was disappointed that it contained nothing specifically on helping a dog adjust to a baby.
 useless April 19, 2000
8 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book just says the same things that all other dog books say. Maybe if you don't have ANY dog books and you have a dog, it would be good to read SOMETHING about them. But otherwise, this book doesn't give any new insights. The little DVM after his name does not mean that this book is full of exciting new scientific delvings into the way that a dog's mind works. it's more like: after living with dogs for thousands of years, what are the most obvious things that any joe blow off the street can tell us about them? Maybe I've just read too many dog books.
Great book February 2, 2000
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
A friend was having trouble with her dog, I was able to get out my "Understanding Your Dog's Behavior" book and diagnose the problem and how to fix it. I really like the section on separation anxiety. One thing that Fogle says many times through the book is that "your dog is learning even though you are not teaching". We may be thinking we are training our dogs one thing but may be reinforcing something else (a negative action) and not even realize it. (I guess the same goes for children!)
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