Este manual está dirigido a personas que quieren dedicarse al increíble mundo de la Educación Canina. Y a aquellos que quieran tener un conocimiento profesional de su perro. En él encontrará las bases imprescindibles para educar a un perro, basado en su etología, psicología, conocer cómo piensa, sus necesidades, las características de la especie, su lenguaje, instinto, tipos de comportamiento, métodos de aprendizaje, sus problemas de conducta, trabajos de defensa, de olfato y mucho más. No se puede perder tener este manual en sus manos. No se puede aprender a base de ensayos y errores o acumulaciones de técnicas sin ninguna coherencia. En éste manual le garantizamos tener todas las herramientas necesarias para convertirse en un adiestrador que sabe lo que hace y porqué. El buen adiestrador tiene que conocer cómo piensa el perro, lo que nos quiere decir en cada momento, lo que necesita y poderles ayudar dándoles lo correcto.

Los Monjes de New Skete han conseguido renombre internacional como criadores de pastores alemanes y como destacados adiestradores de perros de todas las razas. Su método único de adiestramiento canino, desarrollado y refinado durante tres décadas, se basa en la filosofía de que "entender es la clave para la comunicación, la compasión y la comunión" con su perro. A lo largo de toda esta guía se recalca la importancia de la comunicación honesta y eficaz con su perro, especialmente en los ejercicios de adiestramiento prácticos: un curso de obediencia detallado, completo y totalmente ilustrado a través del cual los monjes le guían a usted (y a su perro) paso a paso. Cómo ser el mejor amigo de su perro cubre prácticamente todos los aspectos de la vida y el cuidado de su perro, los cuales incluyen: -Escoger un perro (¿qué raza? ¿macho? ¿hembra? ¿cachorro o perro mayor?) para que encaje en su estilo de vida. -Dónde adquirir –y dónde no adquirir– un perro.-Interpretar un pedigrí. -Adiestrar a su perro o cachorro: cuándo, dónde y cómo. -El uso adecuado de las alabanzas y la disciplina. -Alimentar, asear y asegurar que su perro esté en buen estado físico. -Reconocer y corregir los problemas conductuales caninos. -Las dificultades particulares de criar un perro donde usted vive: en una ciudad, en el campo o en un suburbio. -Las técnicas adecuadas para el cuidado completo de su mascota en cada etapa de su vida.

The collective, inclusive, and intersectional framework used in this book speaks to the significance of understanding aging across diverse cultures from multiple perspectives, but still as a shared human experience. The underlying message of the book is that although we are unique and different in our aging processes, we are ultimately connected through this physical, mental and spiritual experience of aging. Thus, regardless of whether we are service providers, service recipients, educators or merely fellow human beings, it is important that we approach the aging experience through a collective lens for discovering and sharing resources as we age; honoring the past while simultaneously accepting that the future is here. A few select examples of key findings from this collaborative work are as follows. First, despite progress in the field, certain issues remain to be addressed including the challenges of racism and sexism, mistreatment, the digital divide, poverty, and other social and economic crises in urban and rural communities as they relate to our aging population. Second, the need for sustaining a sense of independence among the aged and interdependence among supportive systems is warranted. Third, our elders continue to benefit from culturally competent services community-based health interventions and social services that addresses normative and emerging challenges for them. Fourth, spirituality in both indigenous and contemporary perspectives remains important for our elders’ development and quality of life.

During the last decade, a significant number of scientific studies have supported the use of human scent as a biometric tool and indicator of the presence, or absence, of an individual at a crime scene. These findings even extend to conducting scent identification line-ups with suspects. Human Scent Evidence focuses on some of these recent advances

Dogs have become the subject of increasing scientific study over the past two decades, chiefly due to their development of specialized social skills, seemingly a result of selection pressures during domestication to help them adapt to the human environment. The Social Dog: Behaviour and Cognition includes chapters from leading researchers in the fields of social cognition and behavior, vocalization, evolution, and more, focusing on topics including dog-dog and dog-human interaction, bonding with humans, social behavior and learning, and more. Dogs are being studied in comparative cognitive sciences as well as genetics, ethology, and many more areas. As the number of published studies increases, this book aims to give the reader an overview of the state of the art on dog research, with an emphasis on social behavior and socio-cognitive skills. It represents a valuable resource for students, veterinarians, dog specialists, or anyone who wants deeper knowledge of his or her canine companion. - Reviews the state of the art of research on dog social interactions and cognition - Includes topics on dog-dog as well as dog-human interactions - Features contributions from leading experts in the field, which examine current studies while highlighting the potential for future research

Since Canis lupus familiaris first shared a fire with man more than 15,000 years ago, dogs have been trusted and valued coworkers. Yet the relatively new field of canine ergonomics is just beginning to unravel the secrets of this collaboration. As with many new fields, the literature on working dogs is scattered across several non-overlapping disci

In more ways than we may sometimes care to acknowledge, the human being is just another primate--it is certainly only very rarely that researchers into cognition, emotion, personality, and behavior in our species and in other primates come together to compare notes and share insights. This book, one of the few comprehensive attempts at integrating behavioral research into human and nonhuman primates, does precisely that--and in doing so, offers a clear, in-depth look at the mutually enlightening work being done in psychology and primatology. Relying on theories of behavior derived from psychology rather than ecology or biological anthropology, the authors, internationally known experts in primatology and psychology, focus primarily on social processes in areas including aggression, conflict resolution, sexuality, attachment, parenting, social development and affiliation, cognitive development, social cognition, personality, emotions, vocal and nonvocal communication, cognitive neuroscience, and psychopathology. They show nonhuman primates to be far more complex, cognitively and emotionally, than was once supposed, with provocative implications for our understanding of supposedly unique human characteristics. Arguing that both human and nonhuman primates are distinctive for their wide range of context-sensitive behaviors, their work makes a powerful case for the future integration of human and primate behavioral research.