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Title: The Domestic Dog : Its Evolution, Behaviour and Interactions with People by James Serpell ISBN: 0-521-42537-9 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 21 September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Excellent information painfully presented
Comment: If your memories of college give you migraines, the pain will return in reading these articles. The information is wonderful, but can be found in more enjoyable books. If, on the other hand, you enjoy reading professional journals, you will feel right at home with the jargon and format, and may find it worthwhile to have leading thoughts on domestication, genetics, and behavior all in one place.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Serious Must for Serious Dog People
Comment: First published in 1995, nothing else as comprehensive and as carefully researched on canine behavior and development has been published. For the general reader, the writing style may be a bit dry; however, because each chapter has different authors, the writing style, while basically academic and fact driven, varies.
Any serious dog breeders, trainers, or owners will find themselves returning to certain chapters over and over again. Breeders and even new puppy owners would benefit from the chapter by Serpell and Jagoe on "Early experience and the development of behaviour," which updates the standard beliefs about puppy development resulting from the Bar Harbor experiments of over 50 years ago.
Excellent book!
Rating: 5
Summary: The Domestic Dog, James Serpell (Ed.)
Comment: For those people hungry for scientific literature on dogs and curious about what other references there are on particular dog topics, this is a must read/must have text; almost every chapter serves as a review of the scientific literature on that topic. Those who don't care for reading anything drier than James Herriot's "All Creatures Great & Small" should avoid it.
The book is probably used as a text for graduate students and upper division majors in ethology, comparative psychology, zoology, etc. It was published in 1995 so most of the information is fairly current. The book is in its 5th printing so some professors must share my judgment of it. Let's hope that by 2005 there's a revised edition including and evaluating recent work.
It has 17 chapters written (or co-written) by 21 specialists in their fields -- British, American, Italian -- (after an introduction) divided into 3 major divisions: I. Domestication & evolution (2 chapters) ; II. Behaviour & behaviour problems (8 ch.s); III. Human-dog interactions (6 ch.s). The chapters provide an excellent summary and the key references to the area discussed. A few chapters have a definite British flavor but American readers will be able to transpose when needed.
Dog breeders (& many owners) may be especially interested in the chapters dealing with what's known about heritability of traits, temperament, etc., as well as the role of early experience on later behaviors, disorders, etc.
A few chapters are filled with research results in tables and graphs. One is dense with specialist jargon. But all are readable if you're interested in learning what the applicable sciences know and do not know about the dog. All chapters have information I found important and to some, I'll refer back to many times.
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Title: Dog Language: An Encyclopedia of Canine Behavior by Roger Abrantes, Alice Rasmussen, Sarah Whitehead ISBN: 0966048407 Publisher: Wakan Tanka Inc Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Genetics and the Social Behavior of the Dog by John Paul Scott, John L. Fuller ISBN: 0226743381 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Handbook of Applied Dog Behavior and Training, Vol. 1: Adaptation and Learning by Steven R. Lindsay, Victoria Lea Voith ISBN: 0813807549 Publisher: Iowa State University Press Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $79.99 |
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Title: Excel-Erated Learning: Explaining in Plain English How Dogs Learn and How Best to Teach Them by Pamela J. Reid ISBN: 1888047070 Publisher: James and Kenneth Pub Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Other End of the Leash by Patricia McConnell ISBN: 0345446798 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 04 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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