He is the author of The
Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference (2000) and Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005), both of which were number one New York Times bestsellers; as well as Outliers (2008), What the
Dog Saw: And
Other Adventures (2009) and, David and Goliath (2013).
I had just adopted my new
dog — so unlike any
other I'd known — and I thought it would be interesting to
see if it had any
tips for training this smart and sensitive new addition to the family.
Tip — The
dogs are very different from each
other and so you have to keep an eye on your Yorkie to
see when it is okay to increase the period of being away.
Also herding behavior sometimes looks like predatory behavior when all this type of
dog wants to do is to move
other animals to a location of their choosing (
see our
tips for this behavior below)
Others don't learn the lesson or act out of fear as a driver of the behavior.
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