9 must-read psychology books like Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy by Zazie Todd

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Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy

By: Zazie Todd

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The perfect holiday gift for dog owners: "[a] must-have guide to improving your dog's life" ( Moder…

If you liked the psychology plot in Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy by Zazie Todd , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Education of Will: A Mutual Memoir of a Woman and Her Dog by Patricia B. McConnell

1. The Education of Will: A Mutual Memoir of a Woman and Her Dog

By: Patricia B. McConnell

4.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this powerful, soul-searching memoir, beautifully written in the vein of A Pack of Two and Wild … read more

Similar categories in Patricia B. McConnell's The Education of Will: A Mutual Memoir of a Woman and Her Dog book and Zazie Todd's Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy

  • animals
  • psychology
  • dogs
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know by Alexandra Horowitz

2. Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

By: Alexandra Horowitz

3.62

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling book that asks what dogs know and how they think. The answers will surprise and del… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Horowitz's Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know book and Zazie Todd's Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy

  • audiobook
  • animals
  • psychology
  • dogs
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • science
"Few celebrate a dog who jumps at people as they approach--but start with the premise that it is we who keep ourselves (and our faces) unbearably far away, and we can come to a mutual understanding."

-Alexandra Horowitz, Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

"By standard intelligence texts, the dogs have failed at the puzzle. I believe, by contrast that they have succeeded magnificently. They have applied a novel tool to the task. We are that tool. Dogs h…"

-Alexandra Horowitz, Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

"Pump changed my own umwelt. Walking through the world with her, watching her reactions, I began to imagine her experience. My enjoyment of a narrow winding path in a shady forest, lined with low bush…"

-Alexandra Horowitz, Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

Cover of Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin, Catherine  Johnson

3. Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

By: Temple Grandin , Catherine Johnson

4.03

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

The best-selling animal advocate Temple Grandin offers the most exciting exploration of how animals… read more

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  • audiobook
  • animals
  • psychology
  • dogs
  • nonfiction
  • science
"There's a point where anecdotal evidence becomes truth"

-Temple Grandin, Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

"Being negative is natural and being 100 percent positive takes work."

-Temple Grandin, Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

"How many people would even try to be Jane Goodall today? Jane Goodall was a superb fieldworker who lived with animals, observed them closely, and understood them. She did her work in the field, not b…"

-Temple Grandin, Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

"Instead of making the children do good behaviors by threatening to punish them if they don't, the teachers watch the children until they spontaneously do a good thing and give them rewards to reinfor…"

-Temple Grandin, Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

Cover of Mine!: A Practical Guide to Resource Guarding in Dogs by Jean Donaldson

4. Mine!: A Practical Guide to Resource Guarding in Dogs

By: Jean Donaldson

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Dogs that become demonic around the food dish, snarly on the sofa or grouchy when chewing on a bone… read more

Similar categories in Jean Donaldson's Mine!: A Practical Guide to Resource Guarding in Dogs book and Zazie Todd's Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy

  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • dogs
Cover of Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training by Karen Pryor

5. Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training

By: Karen Pryor

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Originally published entitled: Don't shoot the dog!: how to improve yourself and others through beh… read more

Similar categories in Karen Pryor's Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training book and Zazie Todd's Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy

  • animals
  • psychology
  • dogs
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Finding Gobi: The true story of a little dog and an incredible journey by Dion Leonard

6. Finding Gobi: The true story of a little dog and an incredible journey

By: Dion Leonard

3.86

Format: 568 pages,

A man, a dog, and the lengths to which love will go to sacrifice for its companion. Finding Gobi is… read more

Similar categories in Dion Leonard's Finding Gobi: The true story of a little dog and an incredible journey book and Zazie Todd's Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy

  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • dogs
  • audiobook
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7. The Lost Words

By: Robert Macfarlane , Jackie Morris

2.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From Acorn to Weasel: a gorgeous, hand-illustrated, large-format spellbook celebrating the magic an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals

8. How Dogs Learn

By: Mary R. Burch , Jon S. Bailey

4.88

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

How Dogs Learnexplores the fascinating science of operant conditioning, where science and dog train… read more

Similar categories in Mary R. Burch's How Dogs Learn book and Zazie Todd's Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy

  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • dogs
  • audiobook
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9. On Talking Terms with Dogs: Calming Signals

By: Turid Rugaas

4.33

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

One of our all time best selling books is now in its second edition with three additional chapters,… read more

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  • animals
  • psychology
  • dogs
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Decoding Your Dog: The Ultimate Experts Explain Common Dog Behaviors and Reveal How to Prevent or Change Unwanted Ones by None, John Ciribassi, Steve Dale, Debra Horwitz

10. Decoding Your Dog: The Ultimate Experts Explain Common Dog Behaviors and Reveal How to Prevent or Change Unwanted Ones

By: None , John Ciribassi , Steve Dale , Debra Horwitz

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

More than ninety percent of dog owners consider their pets to be members of their family. But often… read more

Similar categories in None's Decoding Your Dog: The Ultimate Experts Explain Common Dog Behaviors and Reveal How to Prevent or Change Unwanted Ones book and Zazie Todd's Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy

  • science
  • animals
  • dogs
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

11. The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs

By: Patricia B. McConnell

3.71

Format: 498 pages, Paperback

The Other End of the Leashshares a revolutionary, new perspective on our relationship with dogs, fo… read more

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12. The Culture Clash

By: Jean Donaldson , Ian Dunbar

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Maxwell Award for BEST DOG TRAINING BOOK (1997) from the Dog Writers? Association of … read more

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Cover of Meet Your Dog: The Game-Changing Guide to Understanding Your Dog's Behavior by Kim Brophey

13. Meet Your Dog: The Game-Changing Guide to Understanding Your Dog's Behavior

By: Kim Brophey

4.37

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Every dog owner knows that along with the joy can come the stress and frustration of behavioral pro… read more

Similar categories in Kim Brophey's Meet Your Dog: The Game-Changing Guide to Understanding Your Dog's Behavior book and Zazie Todd's Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy

  • audiobook
  • animals
  • psychology
  • dogs
  • nonfiction
  • science
"The imbalance between genetics and a modern environment creates friction and ripple effects for behavioral health."

-Kim Brophey, Meet Your Dog: The Game-Changing Guide to Understanding Your Dog's Behavior

"The entire point of ritualized communication, signalling, and threatening behavior in nature is to avoid actual conflicts and altercations. To assume that warnings are just an indication of intent to…"

-Kim Brophey, Meet Your Dog: The Game-Changing Guide to Understanding Your Dog's Behavior

"You can deliberately work with him, teaching him (learning) to handle potentially challenging circumstances at this opportune time in his life and development (self). The goal is to get one up on Mot…"

-Kim Brophey, Meet Your Dog: The Game-Changing Guide to Understanding Your Dog's Behavior

"This critical period gives us the largest window you will ever have in your dog's life to use learning to compete with the less flexible influences of genetics and the unpredictable and complex natur…"

-Kim Brophey, Meet Your Dog: The Game-Changing Guide to Understanding Your Dog's Behavior

Cover of Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy by Zazie Todd

14. Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy

By: Zazie Todd

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The perfect holiday gift for dog owners: "[a] must-have guide to improving your dog's life" ( Moder… read more

Similar categories in Zazie Todd's Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy book and Zazie Todd's Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy

  • audiobook
  • animals
  • psychology
  • dogs
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • science
Cover of The Forever Dog: Surprising New Science to Help Your Canine Companion Live Younger, Healthier, and Longer by Rodney Habib

15. The Forever Dog: Surprising New Science to Help Your Canine Companion Live Younger, Healthier, and Longer

By: Rodney Habib

4.21

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The Forever Dog has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. read more

Similar categories in Rodney Habib's The Forever Dog: Surprising New Science to Help Your Canine Companion Live Younger, Healthier, and Longer book and Zazie Todd's Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy

  • science
  • animals
  • dogs
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"An educated, informed and well-researched community of pet owners can only put more pressure on the pet food industry to be better! When pet owners know better, they will only do better!"

-Rodney Habib, The Forever Dog: Surprising New Science to Help Your Canine Companion Live Younger, Healthier, and Longer

Cover of The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves by Alexandra Horowitz

16. The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves

By: Alexandra Horowitz

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“What Mr. Rogers was to children, Alexandra Horowitz is to a wise and patient observer who seeks t… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Horowitz's The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves book and Zazie Todd's Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy

  • science
  • animals
  • dogs
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Dog Is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You by Clive D.L. Wynne

17. Dog Is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You

By: Clive D.L. Wynne

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Lively and fascinating... The reader comes away cheered, better informed, and with a new and deepe… read more

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  • audiobook
  • animals
  • psychology
  • dogs
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Puppies are born with the genes for love, but it still takes a village to raise a loving dog."

-Clive D.L. Wynne, Dog Is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You

"There is a movement in our culture today that equates strength, especially but not only manly strength, with exploiting whatever power one has over others - be it physical strength, elite social stan…"

-Clive D.L. Wynne, Dog Is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You

Cover of The Lightmaker's Manifesto: How to Work for Change without Losing Your Joy by Karen Walrond

18. The Lightmaker's Manifesto: How to Work for Change without Losing Your Joy

By: Karen Walrond

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

"Karen Walrond shines her light so we can find our own." --Brené Brown Many of us have strong convi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
Cover of The Puppy Primer by Patricia B. McConnell

19. The Puppy Primer

By: Patricia B. McConnell

4.29

Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr. McConnell added new information about the benefits of positive reinforcement AND the importance… read more

Similar categories in Patricia B. McConnell's The Puppy Primer book and Zazie Todd's Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy

  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • dogs
Cover of Easy Peasy Puppy Squeezy by Steve Mann

20. Easy Peasy Puppy Squeezy

By: Steve Mann

4.42

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

YOUR SIMPLE STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO RAISING AND TRAINING A HAPPY PUPPY OR DOG! My name's Steve Man… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • dogs
Cover of From Fearful to Fear Free: A Positive Program to Free Your Dog From Anxiety, Fears, and Phobias by Marty Becker

21. From Fearful to Fear Free: A Positive Program to Free Your Dog From Anxiety, Fears, and Phobias

By: Marty Becker

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Almost every dog owner has a pet who suffers from fear, anxiety, and stress (FAS). They are the und… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • dogs
  • audiobook

13 must-read audiobook books like Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy by Zazie Todd

Transform Your Habits

The Education of Will: A Mutual Memoir of a Woman and Her Dog

Patricia B. McConnell

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

Alexandra Horowitz

3.62

Transform Your Habits

Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

Temple Grandin , Catherine Johnson

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Finding Gobi: The true story of a little dog and an incredible journey

Dion Leonard

3.86

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13 best-selling audiobook books like Meet Your Dog: The Game-Changing Guide to Understanding Your Dog's Behavior by Kim Brophey

Transform Your Habits

The Education of Will: A Mutual Memoir of a Woman and Her Dog

Patricia B. McConnell

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Zak George's Dog Training Revolution: The Complete Guide to Raising the Perfect Pet with Love

Zak George , Dina Roth Port

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

Alexandra Horowitz

3.62

Transform Your Habits

How Dogs Think: What the World Looks Like to Them and Why They Act the Way They Do

Stanley Coren

4.04

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