Empowering Your Dog Through Choice: Offering Increased Choice to Improve Canine Wellbeing and Relationships With Guardians - Softcover

Lewis, Sally

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798848510829

Publisher: Independently published, 2022

Synopsis

“I’ve worked with hundreds of dogs for the purpose of behaviour support, and it’s really interesting to observe how many choices our dogs do try to make, but might have the ability denied to them, without their guardian necessarily realising that the dog wanted to do anything else in that moment”

Understanding your dog’s choices is incredibly empowering for us as dog guardians, and does a huge amount for our relationship with our dogs. It can increase their optimism in many situations, improve wellbeing, and quality of life. Reduced or limited choice can be a challenge for many dogs, especially dogs that present as fearful, anxious, or frustrated, and can affect their behaviour.

Written by a force-free Certified Canine and Animal Behaviourist, this book explores many ways we can offer our dogs increased choice in different areas of their lives, observe the choices that they make, and understand what they might mean. In addition, you’ll learn essential information on dog body language and the effects of stress.

A must-read for anyone sharing their lives with a dog, or working with dogs.

Included within this book:

• About the Author
• Introduction
• Arousal, triggers, and the role of the nervous system in stress-based behaviour
• What choices do we make for our dogs?
• Understanding your dog, respecting individuality, and The Jigsaw Puzzle of Behaviour
• How can we offer increased choice in the home?
• Walks and time outside of the home
• Social preferences
• Dog body language
• Consent
• Visiting the vet
• How the environment, physical needs, and social dynamics might affect choices
• Common mistakes when socialising puppies
• Trigger stacking and stress
• Flooding
• Adopting a rescue dog and setting everyone up for success
• Why might a dog’s choices change?
• Choice and it’s place within modern dog training and behaviour
• Examples
• The nervous system and it’s role in stress – full explanation
• Conclusion

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2022
• ISBN 13: 9798848510829
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 111