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How Dogs Learn

By: Mary R. Burch, Jon S. Bailey
Narrated by: Christopher Solimene
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This book explores the fascinating science of operant conditioning, where science and dog training meet. How Dogs Learn discusses the basic principles of behavior and how they can be used to teach your dog new skills, diagnose problems, and eliminate unwanted behaviors. It's for anyone who wants to better understand the learning process in dogs. Every concept is laid out clearly and precisely, and its relevance to your dog and how you train is explained.

©1999 Mary R. Burch and Jon S. Bailey (P)2017 Tantor Dogs Pets & Animal Care Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Dog Training Animal Training
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"This book should be on every animal trainer's bookshelf...it is practical and very useful without sacrificing scientific and technical accuracy." (Jack Michael, PhD, Department of Psychology, Western Michigan University)
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The narration was very stilted, even for a book of this type. The content, however, was excellent. I’m just about to begin listening a second time through as there’s so much to take in!

Interesting book

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Well written and narrated, I will re-listen to this book at some point and take notes as I found it went into a lot of used details on a variety of training techniques, backed up with easy to understand examples and studies.

Fantastic book for all the training basics

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Really enjoyed this book! Nice easy listen but the voice sounds a little robotic.

Great Book

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Great! Full of good science on how dogs learn with lots of practical applications and examples.

A must read for any dog owner/trainer

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Contains information about how dogs learn and stresses our responsibility in raising well behaved dogs. I probably learned quite a bit from it. However I think the presentation of the material is patronising and intimidating. I think the narrator probably captures the tone of the written word correctly and there is humour in there but it is sarcastic, which I am normally ok with, but I found it too damning.

Mixed feelings.

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