Ryggproblem hos Hund (forskningsrapport)
"Back problems in Dogs" (Research report)

Eget förlag 1994, Dogma Förlag 2011
32 pages

This is a report from a study that showed that it is as usual that dogs have problems related to the spinal, as we humans. In a normal population of 400 dogs there were 63% that had some sort of defect as defined by the chiropractors that were cooperating to do this piece of research. In many cases there were problematic behavior correlated to the back defect. One of the most alarming findings were that as many as 91% of the dogs that had been pulled hard on the leash, or themselves pulled hard, had defects in the neck!

The results of this study have been spread worldwide and have made dog clubs change training methods and not use hard pulls on the leash any longer. Many dog owners now shift to use a harness instead of a collar (especially choke chain) to avoid hurting the neck of their dogs.

Alfasyndromet – om ledarskap och rangordning hos hundar
“The Alpha Syndome – about leadership and rank order in Dogs”

ICA 2006, Dogma Förlag 2010
96 pages

”You are insufficient as a leader”, ”don’t let the dog become the alfa individual”, ”show the dog who is in charge” – you probably have heard these words. But they are wrong!”
The leadership concept has been misunderstood and misused and this book goes through it from start to finish. Here you find the latest ethological findings and a intriguing theory about what lies behind status relations among pack living animals. In short: forget about leadership and concentrate instead upon your role as a trainer. No matter what people say – you can be as nice as you want to and spoil your dog. It doesn’t see you as a less leader anyway.

Problemhund och Hundproblem
“Problem Dogs and Dog Problems.” 

ICA 1971/1985/1994
192 pages

This book was my first and it was met with overwhelmingly positive critics. It was the first time in Europe that a psychologist wrote a book about dogs. Things like learning psychology, stress and stress factors and modern ethology were hitherto almost unknown for dog owners. Also that stress, pain and mal nutrition could be the cause of problematic behavior was new knowledge. Also the special way of analyzing and curing abnormal behavior had never been recognized before. In the book there is also a section describing normal behavior, ethology, in wolves and dogs. This book has been one of the ICA Publishing Company's best selling dog books for 25 years and has been published in five other countries.

Lyckliga Lydiga Hundar
“Happy, Obedient Dogs” 

ICA 1974/1984/1994
103 pages

This is a book about obedience, but not in the traditional sense. Most books of this kind deal with obedience for competition, influenced by the military and police training of dogs. Here the focus is on every day situations for dogs and owners, situations where it is important to have a gentle, although efficient control over the dog, like in traffic, among other dogs or people, with small children and so on. Even this was judged as a pioneering book when it first was published and was met with excellent critics and is still one of the top selling dog books on ICA and has been published in three other countries.

Hund och Människa
"Dog and Man"

Bonniers -74/Eget förlag -82 (out of print)
128 pages

This is a popularized version of my thesis for my psychology exam, a study of how the environment influences a dog's behavior and a critical scrutiny of the concept of "mentality". Things like the attitude of the owner (emotional "warm" or "cold"), if the dog is kept in a backyard or restricted to some room or other area, or home alone most of the day or if there are more than one dog in the household. These are all examples of things that are correlated to the behavior of the dog. This also was seen as a pioneering work when it was published. Many dog owners and people working professionally with pets had to re-evaluate old beliefs about environmental influences on dog behavior. Suddenly there were statistics to show how different aspects of a dog's surroundings could have a strong impact on how it behaved many things that people simply did not know before. The book also strongly criticized the rigid trait-concept, "mentality". Up to this time it was common that dogs were put away with the diagnosis "mentally bad", especially problematic dogs. They were often taken to a person who tested mental traits in dogs in order to see what was wrong. And usually a dog that was afraid, lacked self-esteem or didn't trust people scored low. So the diagnosis was "Mentally bad, nothing to do but to put the dog to sleep." After the publication of this book most mentality tests were abandoned, except for military or police purpose as a screening before buying an adult dog.

HIT - om inkallning och inkallningsproblem
"COME - about recall and its problems."

Hunden i Fokus 1975/1981 (out of print)
32 pages

This is a popularized version of my thesis for my psychology exam, a study of how the environment influences a dog's behavior and a critical scrutiny of the concept of "mentality". Things like the attitude of the owner (emotional "warm" or "cold"), if the dog is kept in a backyard or restricted to some room or other area, or home alone most of the day or if there are more than one dog in the household. These are all examples of things that are correlated to the behavior of the dog. This also was seen as a pioneering work when it was published. Many dog owners and people working professionally with pets had to re-evaluate old beliefs about environmental influences on dog behavior. Suddenly there were statistics to show how different aspects of a dog's surroundings could have a strong impact on how it behaved many things that people simply did not know before. The book also strongly criticized the rigid trait-concept, "mentality". Up to this time it was common that dogs were put away with the diagnosis "mentally bad", especially problematic dogs. They were often taken to a person who tested mental traits in dogs in order to see what was wrong. And usually a dog that was afraid, lacked self-esteem or didn't trust people scored low. So the diagnosis was "Mentally bad, nothing to do but to put the dog to sleep." After the publication of this book most mentality tests were abandoned, except for military or police purpose as a screening before buying an adult dog.

Skotträdda Hundar
“Gun shy dogs” 

Hunden i Fokus  1975/1981 (Out of print)
32 pages

Gun shyness is more common than most people think, especially nowadays with such an amount of firework displays on several occasions each year. Almost nothing had been written earlier about the therapy for gun shyness in dogs, except one page in my first book.

By this time, in the middle of the seventies, people still believed that this was a hereditary deficiency and no cure was available. At the Army Dog School in Sweden they even had found out that some dogs had specific heart rates when exposed to gun shots and that this was correlated to the fear. They took this as a sign for "genetic gun shyness" and a lot of dogs were destroyed as incurable cases. I then pointed out that the physiological reaction to stress is individual and could stop this trend.

Treating gun shyness has, according to my follow up statistics, a good prognosis. It is rather easy to teach a dog to be stable to sounds.

Arga Hundar
“Aggressive Dogs” 

Hunden i Fokus  1976/1981
32 pages

Shaping is a special method and its' originator is the world known American professor B. F. Skinner, even more known for his work on operant conditioning. The timing of reinforcement of a special behavior in a learning situation is essential. It is a matter of split seconds and the movement of for example the hand with a treat to a dog is way to slow. One way of getting the right timing is to associate the treat with a sound, perhaps from a whistle. When the dog responds in the right way, one sounds the whistle in the exact moment. Then the treat follows as soon as possible. With this training method, dogs have learned both tricks and obedience and it is widely used in training service dogs for handicapped people. But not only that, also in correcting problematic behavior it is Nowadays this is a very used and effective method.

Idel, Ädel Avel
“Pure, Noble Breeding” 

Eget förlag 1985 (Out of print)
35 pages

The need for an alternative to mental tests was more and more asked for since so many dogs got scared in the rather rough test situations. Upon request I construed a test that didn't acted upon the dogs. One fundamental thought was that the owner knew his dog enough to be able to objectively describe it in some characteristics. From genetics we learn that a test value from one individual does not have any capacity to tell us anything about heredity of behavior. You need at least values from a whole litter (in adult age). So this test became a very efficient tool, since it was so easy. You could call dog owners by telephone and ask the simple questions. Even in cases where the dogs were dead, the owners could give the answers. Follow up studies showed a great fitness for use and several dog clubs and breeders praised it for the simplicity and accuracy. The report tells about the background, some critics about the standard mental testing, some genetic rules, presents the idea and the concept of the alternative and what questions that are most interesting to ask.

Shaping / Klicker
"Shaping / Clicker"

MB Förlag 1985/1988/1990
96 pages

Shaping is a special method and its' originator is the world known American professor B. F. Skinner, even more known for his work on operant conditioning. The timing of reinforcement of a special behavior in a learning situation is essential. It is a matter of split seconds and the movement of for example the hand with a treat to a dog is way to slow. One way of getting the right timing is to associate the treat with a sound, perhaps from a whistle. When the dog responds in the right way, one sounds the whistle in the exact moment. Then the treat follows as soon as possible. With this training method, dogs have learned both tricks and obedience and it is widely used in training service dogs for handicapped people. But not only that, also in correcting problematic behavior it is Nowadays this is a very used and effective method.

En Jycke Betyder så mycket
"A Pet means so much"

Masterfoods, Malmö 1986 (Research report)
36 pages

I made a study (under supervision and support from the University of Örebro) that revealed that the feelings of dog owners to their dogs are quite comparable with parental feelings. A dog owner got just as upset and was ready to exhibit just as much force as a parent when their dogs/children was threatened. This study was presented at an international conference 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts arranged by the Delta Society, 1986.

Lexikon i Hundspråk
"Encyclopedia in Dog Psychology”

MBAB 2000
160 s, 260 g

This is, to the best of my knowledge, the only book in the world that deals with all aspects of canine communication. It not only tells about how dogs communicate with a lot of mimics, gestures, sounds and smells, but also of the more subtle means of animal language, like different forms of touching, direction when nearing another dog and likewise.

This book has been very positively received by the public, and the critics have been overwhelmingly positive. It has been published in Germany and was 1993 the best selling book in the German publishing company (Oertel & Spörer). It was published in Canada in 1998 and is to be published in 2007 by Dogwise in the USA. Was chosen the book of the month in USA in July 2003, together with Smoke Alarm Training for Your Dog (Dog Read.com).

Fria Hundar (samproduktion med Marie Hansson)
"Free Dogs" (coo-written with M. Hansson)

Jycke-Tryck AB 1987/1994

118 pages

This is a book about all aspects of teaching a dog to obey though it is loose. It is not only the "come command" in focus here, it is much more. For a dog to listen to his owner when off leash, it must be taught many different things, like the "no command", it must be taught to wait, stop, go slow, come near, go in front, go behind and several other things.

Since some dogs are more difficult than others in off leash training, the book also has a chapter that deals with things that cause problems in the training, like if a dog has excessive energy due to understimulation or some other forms of stress related problems and other things. The dog owner then does not only work with exercises that are symptom oriented, but also the causes of the problem.

This book was a hit from the day it came out and the critics were very good. Ten years after it was first published it still is a big seller.

Tikens Dominans
“Relation between Mother and Pups”

Jycke-Tryck AB 1988

37 pages

This is a report from a study that actually started a lively debate around the issue on how mothers treat their puppies. One reason is that some trainers claimed that mothers are strict, severe and sometimes even aggressive against their young offspring. This assumption then lies behind their advices to dog owners to treat their dogs strict and severe. The study showed that mothers are extremely kind to their puppies, therefore their behavior could not be taken as a justification for advices to dog owners to treat their dogs with rigorous discipline and punishments. The study has been reported in the international ABS Newsletter (Animal Behavior Society) and has been a reference in several textbooks and magazine articles.

Hunden i Våra Hjärtan
"The Dog in our Hearts"

ICA, 1989. Fr -92 Jycke-Tryck AB
128 pages

Pet animals, especially dogs, mean more to their owners than people generally know. There are today thousands of studies showing the physiological and psychological benefits from having pets. Children
growing up with dogs tend to be more sociable, understanding and responsible, adult dog owners rate higher on schedules of happiness and harmony. Elderly live longer and happier and have more friends if they have dogs. Handicapped people benefit really much, especially if they have service trained dogs. In fact the whole society benefits in different ways. Just to mention some, there are police dogs, narcotic searchers, bomb dogs, rescue dogs and guide dogs.

This book is based on one hundred references, all strong evidences that dogs do good to people and really earn the label "man's best friend". But it doesn't stop with that; it also looks at man as the dog's friend. How you should behave and how you should treat your dog to have a fine and harmonious relationship are almost half of the 128 pages dealing with.

The critics were overwhelming when it was published and the book is used in study circles and the like.

Kantarellsök med Hund (samproduktion med M. Hansson)
“Searching Chanterelles with Dogs” (coo-written with M. Hansson)

Jycke-Tryck AB 1990
80 pages

Dogs have enormous sensory capacities that are used in many different tasks, both for pleasure and serious work. Teaching a dog to search for chanterelles has, since this book was published, become enormously popular leisure pursuit, almost the number one for many dog owners. These mushrooms are difficult to see because they usually grow in hidden places, under root systems and so on. Also in fall there are a lot of golden leaves to distract you.

After having had a lot of classes in chanterelle search with dogs and owners, my co-writer and me decided to do the book. It was the one and only in the whole world and the first edition was sold out in a record of time. The book, and also talk about and showing dogs in search for chanterelles, was a subject on national TV and radio in several occasions and in almost every newspaper in Sweden. Also our neighboring countries have had news-reports every fall.

We estimate that you get ten times as much chanterelles with a trained dog than you could find alone - and you get a ten times happier dog - it just loves it.

Uppslagsbok i Hundpsykologi
"Encyclopedia in Dog Psychology"

ICA 2001
207 pages

This is an encyclopedia from A to Z consisting of around 1000 key words. Several of the key words are followed by longer articles, as for instance Aggression, Runs away, The law, Wolf.

Livräddaren på Fyra Ben
"Smoke Alarm Training for Your Dog”

M B Bokförlag, 2002 (Swedish version), Hallwig Publishing, 2002 (English version)
53 pages

Was chosen the book of the month in USA (Dogread.com) in July 2003 (together with The ABC:s of Dog Language).
This is a training that is gaining ground all around the Western world. It is easy and funny to teach a dog to alarm and wake the family members up if there is smoke and fire in the house. And yes, the dog distinguishes that smoke from cigarette or fireplace smoke. And the dog is efficient – it will wake you up at least one minute before the mechanical smoke alarming device sounds!

The English book is available at www.dogwise.com or at www.amazon.com

Mentales Training für Hunde
“Mental Training for Your Dog”

Cadmos, Germany, 2003  
96 pages

This book is about the very important mental activation of dogs. So many are under-stimulated, resting 20 hours and more every day. No wonder dog owners experience problems when their dogs live out all the energy when they are out for a walk or something extraordinary happens. By simple training, based on the concept from natural living, dogs can calm down and start to behave balanced in just a week. The training is based on these natural, fundamental behaviors: Nose work, learning, problem solving and balancing.

Drivkraft och Motivation
“Drive and Motivation”

M B Bokförlag, 2006
200 pages

A book suited especially for those who work or compete with their dogs, professionally or privately. Here is a deep and thorough analysis of the concept of drive and what influences it. Also here is a deep and thorough analysis of what influences a dogs’ motivation, both positively and negatively. You will learn a lot about what to do when the training isn’t going as is supposed. This book is a must for the professional dog handler.

Därför Gör Hunden Så
“That is why the Dog does so"

Bonniers 2005
128 pages

A general dog book in a nice package – to a high degree thanks to the excellent photos of Eivor Rasehorn. A book suited for everyone, a book to own, a book to give away. The text is easy to read and deals with the senses of dogs, about behavior, communication and different kinds of problem behaviors. Also you can read about leadership and rank order, territorial behavior, the behavior of the very young and much more. A book suited for the ages 15 – 85.

Den Gamla Hunden
"The Older Dog"

Prisma 2004
120 pages

The older dogs now have their own book! It is written for all dogs from the age of five and up. It thoroughly deals with the psychological and physiological changes that are connected with maturity and senior age. For instance, most age related changes begin as sub-clinical (not noticeable) alterations. If you know them (for example incipient arthritis or eye problems) you can start some early countermeasures and efficiently slow them down and thereby slow the aging process and even future suffering.
Also here is a program with mental activation that is especially composed to fit older dogs. The book will help you keep a spirited, alert and healthy dog way up in senior ages.

Råd och Dåd om Skott och Fyrverkerier
"Firework Prevention training and therapy for scared Dogs"

(Out of print; will be elaborated and reprinted later)

This is a booklet that deals with how to prevent a dog from becoming scared of sounds, whether it is thunder, gunshots or fireworks. It has helped a lot of dog owners and is much in demand, since especially fireworks tend to escalate every year.