My Dog’s Mystery Adventure is a charming and informative collection of 50 newspaper columns from the Arizona Daily Sun. Award-winning author Karen B. London, PhD,
combines her expertise as a dog trainer and canine behaviorist with her scientific training, natural wit, and storytelling skills to create this engaging compilation of bite-sized stories. It will add to your understanding of our best friends.
You will learn so much from this book, which contains the answers to the following questions and so many more.
- How can you gain insight into your dog’s emotions by observing on which side they wag their tail higher, or which paw they use to hold a Kong.
- How did genes from the domestic dog affect wolf fur coloration?
- What’s the proper way to introduce a dog to a cat?
- How can you tell if dogs are playing appropriately or heading for trouble?
- What are the practical benefits of teaching your dog to do tricks?
- Is yawning contagious between people and dogs?
- How can you make the dog park a good experience for your dog?
- Why do dogs and people, but not ferrets, get a runner’s high?
This book will lead you to enjoy your day (and your dog!) just a little bit more.
Karen B. London, PhD, is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer and a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist who specializes in working with dogs with serious behavioral problems, especially aggression. She began working professionally with dogs in 1997, and has spent years working with clients in one-on-one consultations, teaching group classes, and giving seminars about dog training and canine ethology for trainers, veterinary and shelter staff, and the public.
Karen received her BS in Biology from UCLA and her PhD in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied the defensive behavior of neotropical social wasps, and a nesting association between two species of wasps. Her research and scholarly publications cover such diverse topics as interactions between species that live together, defensive and aggressive behavior, evolution of social behavior, communication within and between species, learning, and parental investment.
