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Dog training book: history and science
I am in the middle of writing a science popularisation book for an audience of professionals on the subject of modern versus traditional approaches to dog psychology and training. I have already written about 200 pages of a first draft, but it badly needs editting and some chapters still need deeper literature surveying.
The book draws the usual traditional beliefs about dogs, mainly in relation to wolves and dominance, into a logical schema, and examines each one of them systematically to scientific scrutiny, summarising in a balanced and objective way what is known, what has been tested, and what is still contentious. I start the book by a detailed commented timeline of the various influences and breakthroughs on dog training from a (recent) historical perspective.
Given the gargantuan demands on my time from other areas (studying, looking after our baby-son, working four days a week, training the dog, and honing my photography skills), this project regularly switches from forefront to back-burner. One thing is for sure, I never have blank page syndrome with it!
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Last updated March 2010