The 40-Year Evolution of Dog Training
Dog Talk (And Kitties Too!) (12-06-2020) #704: Featuring Steven Applebaum, Mark Cushing, and Bassel Abou Fakher. Steven Applebaum, CEO of the Animal Behavior College, talks about the evolution in dog training over the 40 years he has been in the business; Mark Cushing discusses how the concept of “the human-animal bond” began in America and has evolved over the decades, as covered in his book Pet Nation: the Love Affair that Changed America; Bassel Abou Fakher made his way as a refugee from Syria to Belgium, where he wrote a children’s picture book, Saving Stella: A Dog’s Dramatic Escape from War, about what it took to then bring his own dog to join him.