(PDF) Your Dog Is Your Mirror: The Emotional Capacity of Our Dogs and Ourselves Android

(PDF) Your Dog Is Your Mirror: The Emotional Capacity of Our
Dogs and Ourselves Android

(PDF) Your Dog Is Your Mirror: The Emotional Capacity of Our Dogs and
Ourselves Android
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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.