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People Are Like Dogs Book

About the Book

About the artist

Completed Chapters:

1. Finding Your Inner Dog: changing your perspective changes everything

2. DNA Rules Us All: we are who we are as a result of our DNA

3. Temperament: easy, difficult and slow-to-warm-up

4. Life Is A Bell-Shaped Curve: the bell curve illustrates how a very small percentage of us have blessed lives and a very small percentage of us have tragic lives while most of us (dogs and people) have average lives containing a more even mix of good and bad

5. Most of Us are Mutts: that’s actually a good thing due to hybrid vigor

6. No One Ever Really Changes That Much: so we might as well accept what we can’t change!

7. The Concept of A “Good Fit”: some of us go together well and some of us don’t

8. Handling Difficult Relationships: sometimes we can try to manage a difficult relationship by creating physical and/or emotional space….sometimes we might just need to walk away

9. The Search for Self-Acceptance

10. Hurdles to Acceptance and Peace   

11. The More We Resist Something The More It Persists: in other words, ignoring our problems won’t make them go away

12. Self-Improvement in Spite of our Genetic Selves: thankfully people, just like dogs, can be trained!

27. Dangerous Dogs/Dangerous People: trusting our instincts and remembering to stay a bit paranoid (this chapter is out of order but it’s so important I wanted to get it out there)

 

Chapters in Progress:

13. Self-improvement in spite of our Genetic Blueprint

14. Choose to Believe That Things Turn Out as They Need to (even if we can’t understand why)

15. Biology and Hormones: how they run our lives

16. Reproduction and Love: the fear of not being loved

17. Addiction: the inescapable need we have to escape the harshness of reality…it could be drugs and alcohol but          it could also be working to excessive, work, needing to be needed to the point we try to rescue and save others,          compulsive exercising, compulsive eating, compulsive sexual activity, excessive sleeping, on and on…

18. Survival: concerns our need to protect ourselves and why we tend to play it safe; the fear of dying is the source        of most of our anxiety…involves our need to not get hurt in any part of ourselves: heart, mind, body or soul

19. The Need to Believe in a Higher Being: it’s how we deal with the inherent sadness of the world and our lives

20. What Kind of Dog Am I: Why life’s easier when we think of ourselves as a dog

21. Working breeds: perfectionists and leaders

22. Sporting breeds: extroverts and clowns

23. Herding breeds: controllers

24. Hounds: loungers

25. Terriers: high-energy multi-taskers

26. Toy breeds: dependent and anxious

27. Dangerous dogs: no dog is ever worth someone’s life or well-being

28. Finding Peace 

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Don’t Do Routine Teeth Cleanings!

It's not good for your pets to go under anesthesia all the time! Please read about dentals and anesthesia in the Important Info About Your Dog and Cat sections.

Dangerous Dogs

Please check out dogsbite.org (go to the individual years to see pictures and stories of the people killed). Protect your family: especially your children! I always tell people that a dog can be good 99% of the time but it only takes that one off moment for someone to get injured or killed. Please don’t let your love for your dog blind you to the reality that dogs can be extremely dangerous: 4.5 million people are bitten by dogs every year in the U.S. and 880,000 of those are serious enough to require medical care. Sadly, 30 to 40 people are killed each year by dogs, the majority of these killer dogs being Pit Bulls.

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If I've managed to help you in some way with your pet or if you've enjoyed my book or music, I'd really appreciate any contribution you might be able to make so that I can continue helping people with their pets and so that I can try and finish the People Are Like Dogs book. Thanks so very much, Dr.Clark

Recent Articles

Chapter 12: Self-Improvement In Spite of Our Genetic Selves (thankfully people, just like dogs, can be trained!)

Chapter 32: Dangerous Dogs/ Dangerous People (trusting our instincts and remembering to stay a bit paranoid)

Chapter Eleven: The More You Resist Something, The More It Persists (In other words, ignoring your problems won’t make them go away)

Chapter Ten: Hurdles to Acceptance and Peace

Chapter Nine: The Search for Self-Acceptance

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