A psychology-based guide for dog owners and professionals
What if your dog’s behavior makes perfect sense?
Barking, pulling, reactivity, and anxiety are clues to how dogs experience — and learn from — everyday life. Drawing on more than 20 years working hands-on with dogs, I show you what your dog is learning beyond training sessions — and give you practical ways to communicate and change unwanted behavior.
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If you’re looking for another collection of dog-training techniques, this may not be the book you’re looking for. If you’re ready to question familiar ideas, understand why behavior happens, and use that insight to change it, start here.
Advice repeated often enough can start to sound like fact — even when it misses the dog's side of the story.
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Everyday life is teaching your dog.
Dogs learn from every interaction — including lessons no one intended to teach. What happens between training sessions can teach a dog what to expect and what to repeat. That’s why changing behavior may require looking beyond the moment it goes wrong.
“Wow — just wow. This book is so eye-opening to all the mistakes I have been making through the years. I will admit when I first started reading I was pretty defensive and even a little hurt — but only because I could recognize that the author was right. This may not be an easy read for a lot of people, but in my opinion it’s absolutely necessary.”
Change what your dog learns.
Change what your dog does.
Barking, jumping, pulling, reactivity, anxiety, or aggression may look like separate problems. The American Dog Epidemic shows you how to look at what your dog is learning in everyday life, understand why an unwanted behavior keeps happening, and take practical, psychology-based steps toward changing it.
“Finally! An honest opinion about domesticated dog behavior! ... The author beautifully explains how we are treating and training these dogs against their natural-borne behaviors. Despite our love and adoration of them, they are not little humans.”
A new perspective — and practical steps to use it.
Look beyond familiar solutions
A tool or routine may address the behavior you see. This book helps you ask why it keeps happening.
See what's behind the reaction
One dog hangs back. Another bounds forward. They look like opposites — but both may be responding to the same uncertainty.
Change what's causing the behavior
Most advice stops at "make it stop." This book shows you why the behavior exists — and how to change it for good.
Know what to do in real life
Step-by-step guidance for when your dog pulls, jumps, reacts, or ignores you — at home and out in the world.
What Real Change Actually Requires
How behavior really works — and how dogs experience the world.
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“This is the best book on dog behavior I have ever read! It takes a deep dive into why dog behavior goes wrong and how to fix it, with easy-to-use steps right in the book."