Your Dog Is Your Mirror: The Emotional Capacity of Our Dogs and Ourselves

In Your Canine Is Your Mirror, canine coach Kevin Behan proposes a radical new mannequin for understanding canine habits: a canine’s habits and emotion, certainly its very cognition, are pushed by our emotion. The canine doesn’t reply to its proprietor primarily based on what the proprietor thinks, says, or does; it responds to what the proprietor feels. And on this means, canines can truly put folks again in contact with their very own feelings.

Behan was initially skilled beneath the dominance idea by his father, John Behan, one of many first in America to make canine coaching a profession. However he ultimately got here to imagine that what made the fashionable canine trainable was not the dominance hierarchy however the canine’s capability to work as a cooperative group member within the hunt. This capability then advanced into an emotional capability that completely enhances human emotion.

Behan demonstrates that canines and people are linked extra profoundly than has ever been imagined – by coronary heart – and that this strategy to canine cognition may help us perceive lots of canines’ most inscrutable behaviors. This groundbreaking, provocative guide opens the door to an entire new understanding between species, and maybe an entire new understanding of ourselves.