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

In Your Dog Is Your Mirror, dog trainer Kevin Behan proposes a radical new model for understanding canine behavior: a dog's behavior and emotion, indeed its very cognition, are driven by our emotion. The dog doesn't respond to what the owner thinks, says, or does; it responds to what the owner feels. And in this way, dogs can actually put people back in touch with their own emotions. Behan demonstrates that dogs and humans are connected more profoundly than has ever been imagined -- by heart -- and that this approach to dog cognition can help us understand many of dogs' most inscrutable behaviors. This groundbreaking, provocative book opens the door to a whole new understanding between species, and perhaps a whole new understanding of ourselves.


Author: Kevin Behan
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 03/06/2012
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781608680887
ISBN10: 1608680886
BISAC Categories:
- Pets | Dogs | Training & Showing
- Self-Help | Emotions
- Pets | Essays & Narratives

About the Author
The author of Natural Dog Training, Kevin Behan is a veteran dog trainer and one of the nation's foremost experts on dog rehabilitation.