Georgina is a self-confessed nerd. Nine years of tertiary study and she’s still reading textbooks at bedtime! If you also suffer from the study-bug, and would like to deepen your doggy-knowledge… here’s a small selection of In The Pink‘s favourite books to get you started.
Training
Don’t Shoot the Dog
Karen Pryor
Interpret, 2002
The Other End of the Leash
Patricia McConnell
Random House, 2003
Excel-erated Learning
Pamela Reid
James & Kenneth Publishers, 1996
Click to Calm
Emma Parsons
Sunshine Books, 2004
Handbook of Applied Dog Behaviour and Training vol.1-3
Stephen Lindsay
Iowa State University Press, 2000
Behaviour
Inside of a Dog
Alexandra Horowitz
Simon & Schuster, 2010
The Dog’s Mind
Bruce Fogle
Pelham Books, 1992
The Domestic Dog
James Serpell
Cambridge University Press, 1996
The Behavioural Biology of Dogs
Per Jensen
CABI Publishing, 2007
Genetics and the Social Behavior of the Dog
John Paul Scott & John Fuller
University of Chicago Press, 1998
Cognitive Ability
Chaser: Unlocking the Genius of the Dog Who Knows a Thousand Words
John W. Pilley
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013
How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain
Gregory Burns
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013
The Intelligence of Dogs (revised edition)
Stanley Coren
Simon & Schuster, 2006
Evolution
Dogs: A New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior and Evolution
Raymond & Lorna Coppinger
University of Chicago Press, 2002
Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History
Xiaoming Wang & Richard Tedford
Columbia University Press, 2010
