DOG SENSE by John Bradshaw

Title: Dog Sense
Author: John Bradshaw
Language: English
Year: 2011

This one's giving me a hard time... and by that I mean I haven't finished it yet. But since this is no novel and has no plot, I feel I can write a review now.

The book's about dog behaviour and (partly) dog training. It has a very different approach compared to most showed and employed by popular trainers (it specifically points out and criticizes Cesar Millan).

There's not much to say about the contents (unless I summarize the whole book). Bradshaw enlightens you on dog behaviour history and current beliefs (his beliefs, at least). It has very useful information but I gotta point out there are different opinions on the subject. No matter how many Ph.Ds the author has, Bradshaw's point of view is only one... a good, solid one, but still.

The information provided in the book is very interesting, but the author's writing skills (and his editor's work) are awful. The guy keeps going around the same idea over and over again, making it an exasperating read. It's not that it's unclear, it's just redundant, he repeats the same information so much that I get bored and eventually put the book aside and not pick it up again for a few days.


To consider:
- Animals in Translation, by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
- Animals Makes Us Human, by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
- Tell Me Where it Hurts, by Nick Trout
- We Bought a Zoo, Bejamin Mee
- The Rhino with Glue-on Shoes, Ted Y. Mashima