John in the Press
"The learning never stops."
John has been published on topics such as drives and instincts, process of domestication, dog sports, Schutzhund/IPO, French Ring, dog training techniques etc...
Check out some articles at left. More to come!
Books, DVDs, Video
Der Schutzhund by Helmut Raiser, translated
Training the Behavior by Gary Patterson
Dog Training with THE TOUCH by Gary Patterson
Tracking by Gary Patterson
Schutzhund Protection Training by Gary Patterson
The Dog’s Mind by Bruce Fogle
Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin & Catherine
”when you consciously and purposely breed animals to change one
defined physical trait dramatically …..you can end up with some
major emotional and behavioral problems.”
”many genes do one thing in your body and another thing in your brain.”
Instinct In Man by Ronald Fletcher
“Evolution is the fulfillment of a form.”
“The final aim of an instinct is the removal of a bodily need.”
On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection
by Charles Darwin
”an action, which should require experience to enable its performance, without any experience, and when performed by many individuals in
the same way, without their knowing for what purpose it is performed
is usually said to be instinctive.”
Animal Minds by Donald R. Griffin
Training the Competitive Working Dog by Tom Rose &
Gary Patterson
Purely Positive Training by Sheila Booth
On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz
”We shall see later what an indispensable part in the great complex
of drives is played by aggression; it is one of those driving powers
which students call “motivation;”
Schutzhund Obedience Training in Drive with Gottfried Dildei
by Sheila Booth
Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
by Charles Darwin
”He who admits on general grounds that the structure and habits of all animals have been gradually evolved, will look at the whole subject
of Expression in a new and interesting light.”
The Creation by E. O. Wilson
”What is nature? Nature is that part of the original and its life forms
that remain after the human impact.”
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness by Erich Fromm
”Actually the threat behavior in which territorial aggression
manifests itself is the instinctively patterned way of upholding spatial equilibrium and peace.”
”... dominance… functions to give peace and coherence to the group
and to prevent friction that could lead to serious fighting.. Man
substitutes agreements, etiquette and laws for the missing instinct.”
Obedience Training in Drive with Gottfried Dildei by Sheila Booth
DVDs and Video
Joanne Plumb -The Foundations of Competitive Working Dogs
Ivan Balabanov-Obedience Without Conflict
(Check out caninetrainingsystems.com for these and other DVDs, etc.)
(videos, articles, etc.)