Meet Your Dog: The Game-Changing Guide to Understanding Your Dog's Behavior PDF
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1 MEET YOUR DOG 2 3 MEET YOUR DOG MEET MEET MMEEEETT MEET YOUR YOUR YYOOUURR YOUR DOG DOG DDOOGG DOG the GAME-CHANGING GUIDE to UNDERSTANDING YOUR DOG’S BEHAVIOR BY KIM BROPHEY, CDBC, CPDT-KA FOREWORD BY RAYMOND COPPINGER PHOTOGRAPHS BY JASON HEWITT Dedicated to the late Raymond Coppinger—the father of the modern canine science movement, whose life’s work revolutionized our understanding of dogs. Your honesty, humor, and friendship were never lost on those of us lucky enough to know you. Copyright © 2018 by Kim Brophey Foreword copyright © 2018 by Raymond Coppinger Photographs copyright © 2018 by Jason Hewitt All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available. ISBN 978-1-4521-4899-1 (hc) ISBN 978-1-4521-4930-1 (epub, mobi) Design by Hillary Caudle Chronicle Books LLC 680 Second Street San Francisco, CA 94107 www.chroniclebooks.com CONTENTS FOREWORD 6 INTRODUCTION 8 Chapter One: The Four Dog L.E.G.S.® 18 Chapter Two: Learning 26 Chapter Three: Environment 58 Chapter Four: Genetics 78 Natural Dog 84 Key Concept: Ritualized Signaling and Communication 97 Sight Hound 100 Key Concept: Good Management 112 Guardian 114 Key Concept: Dominance and Resource Guarding 129 Toy Dog 132 Key Concept: Oxytocin’s Hook 145 Scent Hound 148 Key Concept: Impulse Control 162 Gun Dog 164 Key Concept: Biting 177 Terrier 181 Key Concept: The Premack Principle 190 Bull Dog 194 Key Concept: The Arousal-Aggression Continuum 208 Herding Dog 212 Key Concept: Sudden Environmental Contrasts 228 World Dog 230 Key Concept: Choice 235 Chapter Five: Self 240 CONCLUSION 247 SOURCES 250 IMAGE CREDITS 252 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 254 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 256 FOREWORD Raymond Coppinger Professor Emeritus of Biology, Hampshire College I wish I had read this book fifty years ago when I first started to train dogs. Back then I was a college professor with a team of sled dogs, which were part of my professional academic research. I published dozens of scientific papers, often with my students, about the neurophysiology and anatomy that help make a successful sled dog. Toward the end of the 1970s, my wife Lorna and I started the Livestock Guarding Dog Project at Hampshire College, where we raised and trained pups to protect American sheep from predation. Eventually we had records on over 1,500 dogs, most of them descendants of the original imports that we had collected in Eurasia as breeding and working stock. We placed them on farms and ranches where they did a brilliant job defending livestock. In those early days of introducing this relatively unknown type of sheep dog to Americans, people would ask if you could train a dog to both herd and guard sheep. Could one dog do both jobs? We didn’t know the answer. So Lorna and I went to Scotland on our way home from a field trip with a pile of puppies from Italy and Yugoslavia, and bought ourselves six border col- lies. Many of the pups were born on the same day. Thus, we had a controlled experiment going where we raised those pups in a large pen for almost a year and watched their behavioral development. What we found was that each breed was different in the timing of their development. They also acquired very different kinds of behaviors. So, we got our answer: No—dogs did not develop with joint guarding and herding abilities. It was during that experiment that I acquired the most difficult dog of my life—Jane, one of the six Scottish border collies. She was an intense drov- er’s dog, so when I put her on a mountain road behind 3,000 sheep, she would work all day long pushing them up the mountain. We herding guys would sit
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