People Pooches & Problems: Understanding, Controlling and Correcting Problem Behavior in Your Dog - Hardcover

Evans, Job Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0876057830 ISBN 13: 9780876057834

Publisher: *Howell Book House, 1991

Synopsis

Presents an innovative approach to training dogs and includes training strategies that simulate problem behaviors and demonstrate how to correct them

About this title

About the Author

Job Michael Evans, popular writer, lecturer and dog training authority, was for eleven years a member of the order of the Monks of New Skete. During that time, he was in charge of the dog training program and took a major role in the writing of How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend. Since reentering secular life, Evans has built an ever-growing list of impressive credentials. He is the author of several outstanding dog training books, including The Evans Guide for Civilized City Canines, Best Dog Book of 1988, and he is a frequent contributor to many respected periodicals for dog fanciers and pet owners. Most recently, he has been named to the certification committee of the Society of North American Dog Trainers, which tests professional trainers' abilities and qualifications. He also has lectured at Ohio, Michigan and Illinois state universities, as well as at other schools and before dog clubs and other interested groups. He lives in New York City.

From the Inside Flap

Since man and dog established their ancient partnership by the light of some primordial camp fire flickering in the mists of prehistory, their relationship to each other has changed dramatically. What was allowable canine behavior in an earlier time often is not acceptable in our enlightened age. At first things were easy. The caveman had no furniture for the dog to chew on or rugs to spot. And later, the desert bedouin had the rug, but there was no door on the tent and the dog did not have to be taken out or even housetrained. The Middle Ages saw a rather casual approach to cleanliness, for man and dog alike, and what man did not know about hygiene and health worked against them both. Over the centuries, however, things changed for the better, and today's dog is cleaner, healthier, better trained and more suitably fit for the role we demand of it. But sometimes, just like people, a dog backslides, or it might be improperly trained or socialized, or something just might be missing that puts it on the road to being a problem for its owner. Here is People, Pooches & Problems, ready to help. Written by one of today's most respected dog training authorities, this new book looks at the whole range of undesirable canine behavior and gives the reader a highly potent means for dealing with housetraining, food stealing, destructiveness, barking, aggression toward dogs and people and similar areas of concern. Job Michael Evans leads us to a clear understanding of why dogs respond as they do and shows how to restore a derailed relationship with a dog by correcting problem behavior through his "Radical Regimen for Recalcitrant Rovers" program, a proven means for achieving compliance with "social rehabilitation" that is presented in the author's original style, a bright combination of authority and understanding. This is the book for dogs and those who love them.

Reviews

Hardened canine criminals meet their match in Evans ( The Evans Guide for Civilized City Canines ), who here outlines methods and philosophies likely to reform a rogue's gallery of aggressive, unresponsive, non-house-trained animals marauding as man's best friends. With his flexible and good-humored approach, Evans teaches how to develop proper leadership attitudes toward a dog as well as how to prevent or stamp out problems. The standout section here is the author's 20-step "Radical Regimen for Recalcitrant Rovers," which has been privately making the rounds of the nation's top trainers with impressive results. Other piquant discussions include rebuttals of folk wisdom, as in an explanation of disciplining a dog after the fact, and clear directions for using set-ups to correct very specific infractions. Some self-help-style chatter invades the book ("I'll be publicly honest with you if you will be privately honest with yourself") but does not detract from Evans's authority. Owners of even cherubic pets ought not pass up this thoroughly sound guide. Illustrations not seen by PW.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Is your dog a candidate for tough love for pooches? If so, you may want to follow Evans's RRRR "Radical Regimen for Recalcitrant Rovers," the basis for this dog obedience book. Evans, who has worked with dogs for 20 years, offers a holistic 20-step program for correcting behavioral problems. Since this is a long-term process, Evans realistically offers no "quick fixes." He says that the key to success lies in the owner being the boss or Alpha dog; otherwise, a positive dog-owner relationship cannot be achieved. Evans includes worksheets to help guide the owner through the RRRR program. If your patrons need another dog obedience book, consider this as a worthy additional purchase. Photos not seen.
- Eva Lautemann, Dekalb Coll . Lib., Clarkston, Ga.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: *Howell Book House
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0876057830
• ISBN 13: 9780876057834
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256