Dog Sense (54 page)

Cesar's Rules
(Millan),
121

Change, resistance to,
134

Check chain,
113

Chimpanzees,
3–4
,
197

Citronella spray collar,
113

Classical conditioning,
102–104

Clicker training,
108–110

Cloning,
287

Cocker spaniel,
256
,
258
,
269

Cognition,
181–183
,
190
,
210

and emotion,
155

and navigation,
187–189

and social behavior,
200–208

Collars,
113
,
114

Collies,
173
,
266
,
267–268

Color vision,
225–228
,
229
,
230
,
231
.
See also
Vision

Communication,
246–249
,
248
,
251
,
260–265

Companion role,
254
,
267
,
268

Companionship,
277
,
285–290

Competitive exclusion,
125
,
126

Conflict resolution,
85–87

Consciousness,
152
,
155
,
180
,
182–183
,
212

Context, and learning,
102

Cooperative behavior,
71

Cooperative breeding,
16–17

Coping skills,
138–139

Copying,
194–196

Corgi,
258

Counting ability,
192–193

Coyote
(Canis latrans)
,
4
,
5–6
,
10–11
,
11 (fig.)
,
32

Critical period,
124–125

Crossbreeding,
63
,
65
,
259
.
See also
Breeding

Cross-point,
197
,
198 (fig.)

Culpeo fox
(Dusicyon culpaeus)
,
9
,
10
,
10 (fig.)
,
13

Darwin, Charles,
4
,
157
,
158
,
217

Deception,
160
,
202
,
207
,
218

Deliberate selection,
58–65
.
See also
Selective breeding

Dependence, on humans,
165–166
,
177
,
199
.
See also
Separation distress

The Descent of Man
(Darwin),
217

Dingoes,
49–50
,
69–71

Discipline, vs. punishment,
281–282

Disorders.
See also
Behavioral problems

behavioral,
283

mental,
141–143

obsessive-compulsive,
179

separation,
174–175
,
289

See also
Health issues

Displays,
154
.
See also
Signals

DNA,
2–4
,
23–24
,
25
,
27
,
58

and deliberate selection,
61
,
62
,
63
,
64

and domestication, location of,
42–43

and domestication, timeline of,
31–36

Docked tails,
263–264

Dog, concept of,
203–208

Dog family.
See
Canidae

Dogs Trust,
275
,
283

Domestication,
2
,
4

of African wild dog,
11–13

of Aguara dog,
9–10

of American timber wolf,
23–25

and ancestry,
29–30

and appearance,
54

and burials,
34–36
,
36–40

of canid,
5–14

and communication,
260

conditions for,
13–14

of coyote,
10–11

of culpeo fox,
9
,
10
,
13

deliberate,
44

and dominance,
93

and dual identity,
51

and emotions,
161

and family structure,
81–82

and genetic “bottlenecks,”
26 (fig.)

of golden jackal,
7–8
,
13

of horses,
32–33

and intelligence,
181–182
,
196–197
,
202

location of,
29–30
,
42–44

and love,
171

multiple,
33–34
,
35

and neotenization,
56–57

of pigs,
32
,
45–46

process of,
29–30
,
65–66

scavenger theory of,
46–48

of silver fox,
8–10

and size variation,
56–57

and sociability,
52
,
66

and social brain,
130

and socialization,
135–136

spontaneous,
44–45

timeline of,
30–42

vs. tameness,
55

of wolf,
14
,
15
,
27–33
,
36–40
,
43–44
,
46–48
,
50
,
57–58

Dominance,
68
,
77–83
,
93
,
121
,
177
,
279

Dominance hierarchy,
77
.
See also
Hierarchy

Dominance indicators, wolf,
19
,
73

Dominance model,
82–83
,
85

Dominance reduction,
97
,
98

Dominance theory of training,
90–94
,
95
,
97–98
,
120
,
166
,
279–280

Donaldson, Jean,
95

Drugs, anti-anxiety,
173

Dual identity,
51

Dunbar, Ian,
95–96
,
97
,
107
,
121

Dusicyon
,
5–6

Electric shock,
113–115

Emotional reactivity,
53

Emotional sophistication,
221–222

Emotions,
148–152
,
152–161
,
179–180

and anthropomorphism,
224

basic,
163
,
215–216
,
224

and boundaries,
167

and children,
216
,
218

and cognition,
155

control of,
167

and domestication,
161

and emotional sophistication,
221–222

and facial expressions,
156–161

as filter,
152–153

functions of,
153

hierarchy of,
162–163

instinctive,
163

limitations of,
211–212

misconceptions about,
221

misinterpretation of,
151–152

and physiology,
154
,
155
,
156
,
161–162
,
168

scientific exploration of,
223–224

self-conscious evaluative,
217–221

and self-control,
222

as survival mechanism,
153

three-level conceptualization of,
153–156
,
154 (fig.)

vs. feelings,
163

See also individual emotions
;
Secondary emotions

Emotions, secondary.
See
Secondary emotions

English cocker spaniel,
258

Envy,
217

Episodic dyscontrol,
258

Euthanasia,
96
,
114
,
167
,
280
,
284

and biting,
177

Events, association of,
88
.
See also
Classical conditioning

Evolution,
127–128
,
131
,
142–143
,
202

of Canidae,
1–2
,
3–6
,
9
,
18
,
99
,
181

of canine cognition,
105
,
182
,
185–189
,
193
,
196
,
203
,
216
,
280

of domestic dog,
14
,
29–30
,
44
,
69
,
75
,
83–84
,
91
,
102
,
246
,
252
,
255

of emotions,
153–156
,
160–163
,
166
,
169
,
217–218
,
222

of mankind,
13
,
30–31
,
33–34
,
156–158
,
215
,
225–228
,
241

of senses,
233
,
246

of socialization,
135–136

of wolf,
14
,
23
,
26 (fig.)
,
46
,
66

Experience, early-life,
139–141

The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals
(Darwin),
158
,
217

Expressive displays,
154

Extermination of wolf,
25
,
52

Extinction (learning),
103

Eyebrows,
262

Faces, human,
198
,
201
,
202

Facial expressions,
151
,
156–161
.
See also
Body-language

Family, rules of,
147

Family group,
6
,
18–19
.
See also
Wolf pack

Family model,
22–23

Family odor,
126

Family structure,
80 (fig.)
,
81–82

Farm-fox,
53–56
,
57

Fear,
134–135
,
163–165

and aggression,
164
,
167–168
,
179

and biting,
177–178

of other dogs,
140

in wolf,
135–136

See also
Emotions

Fear reaction,
135–136

Feelings,
154
,
155
,
163
.
See also
Emotions

Feral dog.
See
Village dog

Fetus,
141–142
,
242–243

Fighting dog,
167–168
,
272 (fig.)
,
273

Filial imprinting.
See
Imprinting

Fingerprinting,
31

Firework phobia,
101

Flooding technique,
101

Force-fetch training,
115
,
116 (fig.)

Fox,
10
,
185
.
See also
Culpeo fox
;
Farm-fox
;
Red fox
;
Siberian fox experiment
;
Silver fox
;
South American fox

French bulldogs,
261
,
263

Friendliness,
67–68
,
129–130