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

Written by:
Kevin Behan
Narrated by:
Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
9
Narrator
4
Release Date
November 2020
Duration
12 hours 8 minutes
Summary
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 its owner based on 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 was originally trained under the dominance theory by his father, John Behan, one of the first in America to make dog training a career. But he eventually came to believe that what made the modern dog trainable was not the dominance hierarchy but the dog’s ability to work as a cooperative group member in the hunt. This ability then evolved into an emotional capacity that perfectly complements human emotion.

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.
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Eric W.

Regrettable reading experience except for its value as an expository of how reasoning can go wildly astray. The author seems to have no distinction between science, metaphor, and imagination. Don’t waste your time and money on this book—please.

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Kari F.

The monotone psychobabble of the writer narrates like someone putting together IKEA furniture. This is the ONLY audiobook I have NOT finished. Such a waste of a credit.

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