MINE! e-bog

Winner of the DWAA Maxwell Award for 2002, Training and Behavior Book.A practical how-to guide on resource guarding - food bowl, object, bed, crate, owner, etc. - in dogs. Contents include: aggression basics, nature of resource guarding, kinds of resource guarding, behaviorist vs. medical models, recognizing guarding, prognosis, safety tools, treatment overview, management, desensitization and counterconditioning, resource sample hierarchies, generalization, troubleshooting, body handling desensitization, operant conditioning. What dog trainers are saying about Jean Donaldson's Mine!A totally comprehensive and practical treatment of a common and very serious behavior problem,. Jean Donaldson translates complex animal learning theory into useable procedures-without sacrificing scientific accuracy. Anyone who works with dogs will benefit from reading Mine! Suzanna Hetts, PhD, author of Pet Behavior Protocols