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 based mostly on what the proprietor thinks, says, or does; it responds to what the proprietor feels. And on this method, canines can truly put individuals again in contact with their very own feelings.

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

Behan demonstrates that canines and people are related extra profoundly than has ever been imagined – by coronary heart – and that this method to canine cognition may also help us perceive lots of canines’ most inscrutable behaviors. This groundbreaking, provocative e book opens the door to a complete new understanding between species, and maybe a complete new understanding of ourselves.