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“During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, doctors recommended lapdogs as a cure for various ladiesâ€� illnesses. For example, holding a dog to the bosom was supposedly a good cure for a weak stomach.”
― Brian Hare, The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter than You Think

“As a child I had grown up around individual dogs that belonged to various members of an extended family and friends, as well as around packs of dogs on family's and neighbors' ranches. Growing up in the United States, I had countless encounters with both familiar dogs and strange dogs. Through the many encounters and interactions with many dogs over the course of a lifetime of now 5+ decades, I have learned to read the behavior of dogs quite well, and eventually have come to understand much about dog-psychology, how to behave around them, how to handle them, and how to train them to acceptably behave â€� all in the most instinctive and natural way possible.”
― Yohai Reuben, Sadie the German Shepherd Dog Puppy: How to House-Train your GSD without a Crate

“And so I learned by observation, interaction, and experience - as well as active study and research - growing up and throughout my life how to understand dog-psychology, how to behave around dogs, and how to physically handle them (without fear or worry of being bitten) if/when necessary. I've had both good and bad experiences with countless dogs thus yielding many lessons learned as well as useful insights which will be shared with you throughout the course of this book.”
― Yohai Reuben, Sadie the German Shepherd Dog Puppy: How to House-Train your GSD without a Crate

“I am going to share with you the very essential (yet very simple) philosophies, strategies, tactics, techniques, tips, and tricks that you need to know to successfully and quickly house-train as well as instill obedience in your GSD puppy â€� even if you receive your puppy earlier than the recommended 8-week earliest recommended safe age (as I did) for separation of a puppy from his/her mother and siblings. Understanding dog-psychology is simple and there are only a few essential (yet very simple) things that you need to understand â€� but you need to understand them well! The photojournal format makes it conducive to offer helpful tactics, techniques, tips, and tricks that can be accompanied by illustrative photos (when necessary) that are spread throughout the book.”
― Yohai Reuben, Sadie the German Shepherd Dog Puppy: How to House-Train your GSD without a Crate

“For hundreds of years, there have been stories of heroic Lassie-type dogs (and at least one kangaroo) running to fetch help when their owners are in trouble. To fetch help, Lassie needs to understand that she needs to inform other people of the emergency because only she saw it. This may not come as a surprise, but based on the first generation of experiments, it is unlikely your dog, no matter how much of a dog genius they are, has the cognitive abilities to do this.”
― Brian Hare, The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter than You Think

“This book is divided into chapters, though not in the traditional chapter division of subject matters. This is because this book also serves as a photojournal of moments from Sadie's first few months of life documented here in dated photos. Thus subsequent chapters after the first are divided into chapters by the date of the photos taken - mostly weekly every seven days on the weekly anniversary (Tuesday) of her birth. Another reason that I have done this is because training a GSD puppy from the age of 4 weeks 5 days entirely on my own has been a “sink or swimâ€� type of learning experience for me, and I would like you to experience with me the raising of Sadie (and the learning/realization of things as I learned/realized them) here in this photojournal if at all possible.”
― Yohai Reuben, Sadie the German Shepherd Dog Puppy: How to House-Train your GSD without a Crate

“I am not so interested in fancy tricks and what dogs can be trained to do. Instead, I love seeing what dogs do when they see a problem for the first time. What do they understand about the problem? What kind of intelligence will they display? What skills will they use to solve it?”
― Brian Hare, The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter than You Think

“Clickers do help, but we need to determine exactly when they help and why. I suspect that rather than helping dogs learn faster, clickers make people better trainers. Using a clicker might help owners reward their dogs more consistently or even make owners fell like they have more control during training. We need more research to know for sure.”
― Brian Hare, The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter than You Think

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened." ~ Anatole France”
― Sandra Lee, The Dog Effect: Canine Influence and Wisdom for Personal Growth