Wow! I posted anonymously. I didn't realize I wasn't logged in.

It was just an accident that the settings on this forum had not been set so ONLY registered members could post. This has been fixed.

Now I remember why this book seems so familiar. Took me a while to reply as I had to dig through my piles of books, couldn't find 'Smarter Than You Think', but then I realized what I had was the sequel of sorts. "The Heart of the Matter". Same content anyway, except with some weird voodoo stuff.

The Paul Loeb guy though, had some good concepts on *cat* training as I recall with his one other book, I don't remember anything weird about it and some information was quite useful, but this one just gave me the chills. I'm a kid so I'm about as absorbent as a sponge but the information in this book seemed to make my brain resist strongly. Feed your animal fresh foods. Yeah, that makes sense. Commercial foods are bad. BUT feed them "people" food? With spices? With chocolate? What for? The "cruel crate training" and "inhumane choking devices" were simply explained away as "something YOU would not want to be in/done to you", never taking in consideration that a dog is not a human. No wonder most of the 'examples' they had were 5-pound Yorkies or some other small, non'killing' breed.

Don't worry. I did pay for this book, but it wasn't much. I got it at a dollar store. Hmmm. I wonder WHY?