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	• Bones Would Rain From the Sky: Deepening Our Relationships with Dogs Suzanne Clothier Grand Central Publishing, 2002 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 78 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Flawed and harmful notions have insidiously worked their way into the collective perspective, and have detrimentally shaped training philosophy and behavior-problem advice.

Suzanne Clothier's eloquent text is the real thing: Deep and accurate insight. A correction of popular misconceptions.

Jeff


Wow!

I was amazed by this book. It caused me much soul searching as I went over in my mind the many sessions of training I have had with my own dogs and others and measured them against the benchmarks that this book provides.

Some of what Suzanne had to say confirmed things that I already knew both in my head and my heart. Other things she said opened new vistas in my mind and caused me to look at things from an entirely different viewpoint. My dogs.

Living with a pack of 8 dogs has always been a challenge. When I read Suzanne's book it would seem to me that I have been living with a pack of 13 all this time and did not take those dynamics into account. Our pack of 13 consists of 8 canines, 4 humans and 1 cat. Everybody in that pack has an effect on the others that result in behaviors that I can observe.

I now understand why my 2 year old female Cattle dog "pings" on the older female Cattle dog in terms I never thought of. What I had written off as the two dogs hating each other turns out to be a mutual set of interactions that include (if I can stretch it this far) a set of self fulfilling prophesies on the part of the two participants. The trick and task I now have is to somehow break that chain.

Since I now have an understanding of the motivating factors in this lack of harmony between these females due to my "looking at the situation through the dog's eyes" as Suzzane would put it I have a chance of fixing a long term annoyance in my household.

If you are at all interested in dog behavior and/or training this is a book that not only belongs on your bookshelf but should be read on a periodic basis to refresh your knowlege.

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A Masterpiece

"Bones..." is a treasure. It achieves more than other books I've read on human-dog relationships. It is recommended to every dog owner, novice or advanced. As a veterinarian and dog enthusiast, I wish to highlight the scholarship in "Bones...". The breadth and depth of knowledge demonstrated by Suzanne Clothier is rare in this genre. It is clear that Ms Clothier wrote "Bones..." from the heart. She also wrote it from a perspective of well-researched science melded with her hands-on experience and insights, creating a masterpiece.

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It's more than a book about dogs!

Suzanne Clothier tricks us. We think we are merely picking up a book that will help us "deepen our relationships with dogs". But in fact, Ms. Clothier has a parallel goal: to help us deepen our relationship with ourselves and our co-members of the human race. This reader feels she has been very successful with both ambitions. She is insightful. She is unafraid to use her own mistakes and misunderstandings as a powerful tool to help teach us to think in different ways. She is articulate but very available in her writing. She does a wonderful job in asking us to "See the dog," and to learn some powerful lessons from our Best Friends. If you already feel a connection to your canine companions, if you call yourself "an animal person rather than a people person", if you are thinking about getting your first dog, please read the book. Your relationship with your dog friends will be the better for it.

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