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TEACHING THE DOG TO THINK is Kimberly Davis' engaging memoir about her crash introduction to the sport of dog agility-with its jumps, tunnels, balance beams and weave poles. An award-winning poet and blogger, Davis vividly describes her frustrations trying to get her dog to "mind." We then watch as her first steely-eyed agility coach shames her into giving up choke collars and scruff shakes in favor of the "positive" training methods used by agility instructors. Davis' breezy, often humorous account shows how these new techniques allow her to communicate with the "alien" mind of a dog. Also how they transform her unruly yearling collie, Willow, into a loyal, hardworking teammate. Davis ultimately carries the lessons she has mastered in dog training class into other areas of her life, particularly into parenting and teaching creative writing. In the end, this memoir becomes a soul-searching exploration of how to get others to do what we want without bullying or cruelty-by using our heads and forcing ourselves to be a little smarter. A subtly subversive book about dealing responsibly with those less powerful than ourselves, Teaching The Dog To Think speaks not only to dog lovers, but also to anyone who has ever felt helpless, angry, or frustrated as a parent, teacher or pet owner. "You MUST read this book if you have children or pets, and want to change their behavior without coercion!"--Richard McManus, Founder and President, The Fluency Factory "An interesting story of how switching to clicker training vastly improved one agility fan's dog and also changed her own approach to family life."--Karen Pryor, author of Don't Shoot the Dog and Reaching the Animal Mind "A wonderful entry point for anyone learning about these important new methods for teaching skills and enhancing creativity."--Catherine S. Mayes, Independent Autism Advocate and Autism Project Advocate, Massachusetts Advocates for Children

Check This Box If You Are Blind is the story of one man's journey into blindness. Andy, 42, loves dogs, Dracula, vintage cars, unicorns, and Olivia Newton-John. He's sensitive. Stubborn. And blind. Andy disagrees about the blind part. His lost sight, he says, will be back any minute now. He has decided to pass as sighted until his vision returns. "Because my true self is my sighted self," he explains. But Andy's sight is fading fast. He's making more mistakes these days: at work, at home, losing things, bumping into things. He's putting his job, many friendships, and even his personal safety at risk. When is it wrong to talk someone you love out of a wish that can't come true? Susan Meyers is Andy's older sister and protector. She used to hold his fat little hand in hers every morning and walk him to school when they were small. She lives far away now, but she can't stop picturing Andy feeling for the smoothness of walls with his hands, for the suddenness of stairs with his feet. She's supposed to save her brother, to swoop in and perform some sort of rescue, right here, right now. But how? And she has questions. Why is blindness so frightening? What is her brother losing, exactly, and why can't he find a way to live without it? This is the wonderful, engaging story of a sister's struggle to protect her brother, a man who calls her his guardian angel but refuses to be guarded. Beautifully written and sensitively told, it takes up questions that brothers, sisters, and caregivers of all stripes must ask.