The Dog Listener - Jan Fennell

We’ve had Monty Roberts, the Horse Whisperer (from his book ‘The Man Who Listens to Horses’), with Robert Redford playing him in the movie version – now we have Jan Fennell, the Dog Whisperer. I’d like to see Glen Close playing her in the movie. What’s next, the Human Listener? No, that’ll never happen. Jan is a dog lover with a difference. She is trained in psychology and has studied wolf behaviour. This ...
...the dog. She was inspired by Monty Roberts – and in fact he wrote the foreword to this book, he is so impressed with her work. Her approach to dogs is much like Desmond Morris’s (‘Dogwatching’), in that she goes back to the theory that today’s dogs are just domesticated wolves. In the wolf pack there are always two top dogs, a male and a female, known as the Alpha Male and Alpha Female. The other dogs organise themselves ...

MichelleScott 16.05.2001 (15.05.2001) · Read full review
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The Dog Listener "Learning the Language of your Best Friend" is a guide to learning the psychology of dogs in the hope that, with better understanding we can train them to be obedient, social pets. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jan Fennell from Lincolnshire began her career as a successful English Springer Spaniel breeder and went on to become a dog behaviour specialist making frequent contributions to radio and television programmes. THE FOREWARD The foreward ...
...of horses that Jan found the inspiration to develop his techniques to canine advantage. THE PRINCIPLE- AMICHIEN BONDING Dogs were once "pack animals" and although lifestyles and appearances have changed over thousands of years the wolf pack instinct still remains. The "alpha pair" was the strongest, healthiest and most intelligent .Among the pack it is only the "Alpha pair" who breed, ensuring a strong line of descendants. They are responsible ...

bluebunny 21.05.2005 · Read full review
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...a gentle soul most of the time. The only aggression he has shown is to other dogs if there is food about, or to certain dogs we meet on our walks. He has suffered mildly from separation anxiety. This was recently added to when our pack broke apart and there was just me and him left. I had heard of the Dog Listener, but had never read anything, nor had I seen her on television. In the hopes of helping both Ben and myself, I bought the book. The ...
...about training a dog in the usual sense of the word. The underlying principle seems to me to be, to paraphrase the book, that we act in such a way towards our dogs that they become confused about their position in the pack, this triggers all kinds or reactions that we, as humans, deem intolerable but which are perfectly natural to the dog in his/her perceived position. But, I digress, on to the book. Did I like it and is it any good? Personally ...

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...should not be allowed in the house, as it tells humans things that they should not know. I’m sure that you’ll have noticed that they’re not very intelligent - no dog would sit in front of a PC all day, and then watch television all evening to relax, so really it’s essential that an intelligent dog takes charge. I took over as pack leader here five years ago and I’d got things licked into shape. Two years ago I was joined ...
...routine - first thing in the morning we’d take the female human out for a walk, towing her down the road like flotsam and then running her ragged as she tried to control us in the park. I do feel it’s so important to make certain your human gets plenty of quality exercise: just walking is not enough if you want to avoid all those dreadful visits to the Doctor later on and there’s nothing more shameful to a dog than having a fat ...

SueMagee 21.07.2001 · Read full review
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The Dog Listener by Jan Fennell is a dog behavior book which if you follow claims to put your book on the straight and narrow. Jan Fennell claims to have used the skills developed by the horse whisperer Monty Roberts to use the dogs inate desire for alpha dog status, so if you become the alpha male than the dog should obey your every instruction. So the book itself is split into easy chapter designed to reinforce the pack, make you the pack leader ...
...Jan Fennell is according to the authors notes, a trained psychologist, she like Clint Eastwood knows about people (or in Jans life dogs), so establish yourself as the pack leader and the dog will follow, allow it to be the pack leader and you will follow not the dog. So does it work, well the book has easy to follow instructions, such as ignoring your dog when you enter the room which stops the dog dominating you and therefore placing his alpha ...

alderman55 08.06.2009 · Read full review
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...Who Listens to Horses" (he's the official "horse whisperer"). But this isn't the same calibre of book because it doesn't really seem to know what its purpose is... I ordered this off Amazon.com with an expectation that it might match up to the Monty Roberts book. I have two dogs, one of which is a boisterous puppy and the other a well-behaved dog. I hoped that The Dog Listener would help me to understand them better. _____________________ Who Jan ...
...in the UK. She has been a successful breeder and won prizes at Cruft's. She contributes her knowledge to the BBC's TV and radio shows and visits "delinquent dogs" to try and cure them of their problem. ______________________________ Format of The Dog Listener ______________________________ The Dog Listener is essentially a record of Jan Fennell's experiences with dogs - how they react to situations, what they are really thinking and the best ways ...

freelancer1 12.06.2002 · Read full review
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Because nowdays, people (including me) are more interested in how to increase dogs appearnce. The psychology of dogs is not important because how clever or stupid they are, still they are dogs..! ...

simpleandhappy 17.03.2008
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