The Culture Clash, Jean Donaldson
The Culture Clash, Jean Donaldson
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The Culture Clash
A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding the Relationship Between Humans and Domestic Dogs

Author: Jean Donaldson

Narrator: Vanessa Daniels

Unabridged: 9 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/30/2017

Categories: Nonfiction, Pets

Synopsis

Generations of dogs have been labeled training-lemons for requiring actual motivation when all along they were perfectly normal. Numerous other completely and utterly normal dogs have been branded as canine misfits simply because they grew up to act like dogs. Barking, chewing, sniffing, licking, jumping up, and occasionally, (just like people), having arguments, is as normal and natural for dogs as wagging tails and burying bones. However, all dogs need to be taught how to modify their normal and natural behaviors to adjust to human culture. Sadly, all too often, when the dog's way of life conflicts with human rules and standards, many dogs are discarded and summarily put to death.

That's quite the Culture Clash.

About Jean Donaldson

The founder of the Academy for Dog Trainers, Jean Donaldson has over thirty years of experience in dog behavior and training. Jean is a four-time winner of the Dog Writers' Association of America's Maxwell Award, and her seminal book The Culture Clash was named number one training and behavior book by the Association of Pet Dog Trainers. Her other titles are Mine!: A Guide to Resource Guarding in Dogs, Fight!: A Guide to Dog-Dog Aggression, Dogs Are From Neptune, and Oh Behave!: Dogs From Pavlov to Premack to Pinker. Her book Train Like a Pro was her first written training guide for a lay audience.

Before transitioning full-time to pet dog training, Jean competed in dog sports with dogs of various breeds, earning numerous titles and wins, including OTCh, HIT, TDX, and FDCh, as well as a CGC. She ran a successful training school for fifteen years, and spent six years focusing primarily on referral aggression cases. She holds a degree in comparative psychology and is a keen student of evolutionary biology.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Linda

This book is probably one of the best dog training books out there. It's the only book that I've found that really, truly, describes the positive reinforcement (+R) method which in a nutshell involves ignoring unwanted behavior and rewarding good behavior. Why only three stars? This vitriolic book is......more

Goodreads review by Amy

I believe Jean Donaldson is a genius. I went to the Pawlitically Incorrect Dog Symposium at Marin Humane Society in 2002 and I was blown away by her! There was a segment where they took some of the shelter dogs that had specific behavior problems, and then they had 4 dog trainers that each use a dif......more

Goodreads review by Luxorien

Very good overall. The most common criticisms of this book are the tone and the organization. They are legitimate criticisms. The author is extremely sharptongued when it comes to dominance theory and anthropomorphizing. I personally find her derision amusing rather than insulting, but I concede tha......more

Goodreads review by Teo

I'm torn about this book. I don't think it was organized in a meaningful way. The chapters had sort of vague titles, and the contents within did not necessarily hew tightly to their heading. The book is often fairly dry and technical, requiring two or three re-reads to begin to untangle what the auth......more

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