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An intimate, amazing check out man's best ally and the actual leading philosophies of dog training train us about ourselves. Years back, Melissa Holbrook Pierson brought home a border collie named Mercy, with out a clue of ways to get her to respond. Stunned after finding a trainer whose immediate rapport with Mercy looked like magical, Pierson began delving in to the techniques of positive encouragement. She made her way to B. F. Skinner, the behavioral psychologist who began it all, the man who could educate a pigeon to party in minutes and whose research on how behavior is obtained has ramifications for military dolphin trainers, sports athletes, dancers, and, as he originally conceived, society at large. To learn more, Pierson met with a host of fascinating pet behaviorists, going behind the moments to witness the relationships between instructors and animals at the Country wide Zoo in Washington, DC, and to the in-depth workshops at a Clicker Expo where all the pups but hers appeared to be learning new steps. The often startling storyline of what became of the journey breaking scientist's work is interwoven with a more personal story of how to understand the foreign types with whom we live privileged to live. Pierson draws amazing connections in her exploration of how kindness works to encourage all animals, including the human one.
