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bmbmunoz's review against another edition
4.0
Jumped around a little bit and was hard to follow at times, but still enjoyable and I learned a bit on training my own dog
ms_matou's review against another edition
4.0
I'm a sucker for cliches. especially when they involve pets and recovering alcoholics.
gale_bruckner's review against another edition
5.0
A Love Story with Teeth.
Bad Dog resonated with me very deeply. It's a love story, and really it's three different love stories if you think about it. Romantic love, companionate love, and most important but most difficult: learning to love yourself. I absolutely adored this compelling book and how it ended.
Bad Dog resonated with me very deeply. It's a love story, and really it's three different love stories if you think about it. Romantic love, companionate love, and most important but most difficult: learning to love yourself. I absolutely adored this compelling book and how it ended.
aksharpes's review against another edition
4.0
Loved this book, I really liked the fact they put pictures in it so you can see what the real Hola looks like. We've all had a "bad dog" I'm sure to relate some of the stories too!!!
laurla's review against another edition
-it was a quick read. not the greatest dog book, but it kept my interest.
"that horrible moment when you see how drunk you are, and can't get away from yourself."
"I drank 'cause I was afraid all the time. and not the performances, I was afraid of the other dancers' liking me, the ballet master liking me, was he going to cast me, would I get to go on the tour. it was just this fear that I wasn't likeable that made me drink and drug". i'd hear this over and over again in the rooms (AA meetings), this suspicion we are somehow, on a cellular level, repulsive to the human race. therapists might call it shame, but it's actually worse than that.
"you're freaking her out (Hola). look at her today - she knows all the commands. that's not the problem. she's hysterical because you are."
"CHRISTMAS!" he'd scream. to his credit, although my father swore loudly and often, he never used regular curse words.
"dogs think, reason, and have a language. it's called body language. people also have this. we're going to spend the whole week making you untwitch. most of us are moving all the time without knowing it, and our dogs pick up on everything. we confuse them. leaning in a quarter inch can make a difference to a dog. every motion we make must have a clear purpose and meaning if we want to communicate."
"if you want to know what people are thinking about you, the answer is: seldom."
"I didn't call people when I needed help. I thought I was being considerate. I didn't want to bother them. but when did I ever care if I was bothering anybody? no, it's not that at all. I just didn't want to ask for help. I lacked humility. be humble. ask for help."
"an op-ed columnist in the new York times recently called cesar Millan "a charming, one man wrecking ball directed at 40 years of progress in understanding and shaping dog behavior."
"aversive training methods do not work on wild animals. a wild animal will literally fight a human to death rather than *not* do what we punish him for.
dominance is a complicated topic. a multiyear study by l. david mech seems to show that packs function more like families than conscripted armies: they accept roles rather than take them by force.
"we've gone from the old fashioned authoritarian extreme - where animals existed only to do our bidding - to another unhealthy extreme." (pampered pets)
"I believe [dogs} pay a tremendous amount of attention to how relaxed our face is and how relaxed our facial muscles are, because that's a big cue for them with each other. is the jaw relaxed? is the mouth slightly open? and then the arms. they pay a tremendous amount of attention to where our arms go." - patricia McConnell
"dogs know how comfortable you are with yourself, how happy you are, how fearful you are, and what is missing in side of you." - Cesar Millan.
"the problem is, people don't know how to communicate with their dogs. we need to learn their language. see the world from their point of view.
"that horrible moment when you see how drunk you are, and can't get away from yourself."
"I drank 'cause I was afraid all the time. and not the performances, I was afraid of the other dancers' liking me, the ballet master liking me, was he going to cast me, would I get to go on the tour. it was just this fear that I wasn't likeable that made me drink and drug". i'd hear this over and over again in the rooms (AA meetings), this suspicion we are somehow, on a cellular level, repulsive to the human race. therapists might call it shame, but it's actually worse than that.
"you're freaking her out (Hola). look at her today - she knows all the commands. that's not the problem. she's hysterical because you are."
"CHRISTMAS!" he'd scream. to his credit, although my father swore loudly and often, he never used regular curse words.
"dogs think, reason, and have a language. it's called body language. people also have this. we're going to spend the whole week making you untwitch. most of us are moving all the time without knowing it, and our dogs pick up on everything. we confuse them. leaning in a quarter inch can make a difference to a dog. every motion we make must have a clear purpose and meaning if we want to communicate."
"if you want to know what people are thinking about you, the answer is: seldom."
"I didn't call people when I needed help. I thought I was being considerate. I didn't want to bother them. but when did I ever care if I was bothering anybody? no, it's not that at all. I just didn't want to ask for help. I lacked humility. be humble. ask for help."
"an op-ed columnist in the new York times recently called cesar Millan "a charming, one man wrecking ball directed at 40 years of progress in understanding and shaping dog behavior."
"aversive training methods do not work on wild animals. a wild animal will literally fight a human to death rather than *not* do what we punish him for.
dominance is a complicated topic. a multiyear study by l. david mech seems to show that packs function more like families than conscripted armies: they accept roles rather than take them by force.
"we've gone from the old fashioned authoritarian extreme - where animals existed only to do our bidding - to another unhealthy extreme." (pampered pets)
"I believe [dogs} pay a tremendous amount of attention to how relaxed our face is and how relaxed our facial muscles are, because that's a big cue for them with each other. is the jaw relaxed? is the mouth slightly open? and then the arms. they pay a tremendous amount of attention to where our arms go." - patricia McConnell
"dogs know how comfortable you are with yourself, how happy you are, how fearful you are, and what is missing in side of you." - Cesar Millan.
"the problem is, people don't know how to communicate with their dogs. we need to learn their language. see the world from their point of view.