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The Other End of the Leash

The Other End of the Leash

List Price: $25.95
Your Price: $17.13
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Must-Read
Review: We reviewed this book at our dog trainers' forum, and everyone loved it!!! My review was that it should be required reading by every dog owner. I give my clients a list of books that I recommend and tell them if they only get one book, this is the book to get.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Utterly gripping
Review: I can count the number of nonfiction books I've read on one hand, but I sped through TOEOTL in three days and went back to revisit favorite parts for weeks afterward. It's helpful for a new dog owner and gives good training advice, but it's just plain fascinating and a page turner as well.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I should have known this!
Review: Use 1-word commands. Primates are bigger than dogs. Well, yeah. But start training a dog and all the good stuff you just know flies out the window. This book was full of common sense, insight, and experience presented with love and humor. It's an entertaining book in itself, but halfway through I found myself with one miserably unhappy little dog who was quickly learning the power of aggression for keeping people out of his face. Everywhere I turned for help I found less hope for him, but I took some of the book's advice and had some faith and now he's happy, secure, loving and even outgoing at times. No one believes me anymore when I say he used to be shy, and he's a joy to know. That's my teary testimonial. This book can change lives.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: What every dog owner or prospective dog owner should read
Review: Few books about dogs combine humor, training tips, psychology, compassion and love of dogs in the way that this book does and does it so dead-on right. It is also fun to read!
I've read her concepts in other dog training manuals but was never made to understand them the way Dr. McConnell brings to light, or relates them to canine/human differences in the clear way she teaches you to understand. Experts and novices with dogs alike would benefit from the knowledge gained by reading this book. Reading goes quickly and you are sad when the book comes to an end....what an awesome job she has done here and in my opinion, this is the best dog behavior book I have ever read.
You are left wanting to not only meet this remarkable woman, but also her collection of dogs. Certainly if the dogs of our society could rate this book, they would give it the same as me, five stars! Or maybe that would be five barks.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A good book even if you don't have a dog.
Review: This reads like fiction. It's fascinating, well written and you'll find yourself a lot of AHA moments.... so that's why he does that! I think the description of people is as good as the description of dogs. This was the best book I read all last summer, and I'm an English teacher and read many, many books in summertime. I simply loved it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: amazing resource for dog lovers
Review: If you have dogs, you need this book. I was absolutely captivated by the author's explanation of how dogs interpret our movements, our words, our tones, our facial expressions, etc. This book will truly help you understand your dog and become more aware of how you communicate with him. This book is invaluable for anyone who wants to deepen her bond with her dog or for anyone who needs help training her dog. This book has definitely affected me forever.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: For pet owners, not house owners
Review: I must say that I bought this book on the strength of the title alone, hoping it would shed some light on Sir Sean Connery's views on renting houses. Unfortunately (or so I first thought) I was quite wrong; it's actually about being on the other end of a leash. I confess that I hadn't tried this approach before, but now I have, there is nothing to stop me recommending it to others, provided both parties are happy.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: pretty obvious stuff, nothing really new here
Review: This is a great book for those who are new to dogs or who have had problems understanding how human behavior can end up reinforcing 'bad' behavior in a companion dog. However, for those who have spent some time sharing their lives with dogs, there isn't anything new here. I would probably have rated this book 5 stars back when I was a junior in high school trying to understand my first dog (who was luckily VERY forgiving of my mistakes). But 30+ years later, after studying many of the same reference materials myself during my own wildlife ethology studies, I would rate this book 3 stars. It helped me reinforce what I already knew and gave me some new references I'd overlooked (I've already ordered Alan Beck's 'The Ecology of Stray Dogs'). But this book is not an essential for my own dog behavior/training bookshelf. One amusing feature is the authors constant reference to herself as a Applied Animal Behaviorist (with capitols, no less). You can expect this reminder to readers of her 'real credentials' in each chapter.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Fantastic!
Review: Not only does this book offer stunning insights on communication between humans and dogs, it is also a wonderfully entertaining piece of literature. If you are love dogs and dog training, you NEED this book.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Clear and direct
Review: This is not only wonderful to read, but surrounded with useful food for thought. Patricia has a refreshing outlook into the canine mind.
Well worth the time and money!


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