Beyond Flight or Fight

A Compassionate Guide for Working with Fearful Dogs

By: Sunny Weber

Narrated by: Richard Rieman

Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

Winner: first place in the 2016 CIPA EVVY Book Awards!

Dog Writers of America Association's Certificate of Excellence in New York City!

Is your dog afraid of noises, objects, or you? See through fearful dog's eyes in anecdotal stories about real saved dogs. Discover how to help dogs that have been neglected, abused, or are genetically timid. Learn unique approaches and how to help your shy companion face life in a human world. Develop the close bond that only trust can bring. Fearful dogs can be saved and have quality lives, free of anxiety. Beyond Flight or Fight will give you practical, easy-to-understand tips that will ease your frustration, guilt, or confusion. This book will help (1) you grow in compassion, (2) your pup find peace, and (3) bring both of you to a warm appreciation for each other.

©2016 Sunny Weber (P)2017 Sunny Weber

Critic reviews

" Beyond Flight or Fight will help you rehabilitate high-fear dogs that may have been neglected or abused. Lots of step-by-step, practical advice." (Temple Grandin PhD, Professor of animal sciences and National Women's Hall of Fame, author, speaker, animal advocate)

The start

Looking for a book about your shy scared dog. This is it. I’ve listened to audio books and purchased other books. But this book gives examples and all different scenarios. This book allowed me to understand that I do not know what happened to my new shy/scared dog but I shouldn’t expect things, show patience, and go as fast as the dog is comfortable. I’ve tried other books and wasn’t satisfied and frustrated because I wanted to connect to my new shy dog. But this book gave me the confidence to keep going and understand my new dog. Performance is 4 stars because I would prefer Sunny Weber to voice the audio like she did in the introduction.

Compassionate guide for a frightened, furry friend

I fell in love with this book from the title alone, and the content didn't disappoint. The author, Sunny Weber is clearly an expert in helping us humans to understand what's going on in the minds of our furry friends when they act "badly" in our eyes. It's their instincts kicking in, and it's not their fault. Narrator Richard Rieman reads boldly, clearly and kindly to explain the topics in a way that are easy to digest. I'm already a fan of Richard's narration, and this just adds one more to my growing list of works that I've enjoyed by him.

Overall, this book is a great guide to help people first to understand, and then to deal with the issue of unsocialized, abused or abandoned dogs who have trust issues. There's way too much to summarized and I wouldn't do it justice, so if this topic interests you, spend a credit or a few dollars and do yourself a favor and learn about what you can do to help your four legged friends be better behaved and have a better life. I was given a copy of this book for this review.

Great book!

Frist a shout out to Sunny for all the work she has done with dogs! I wish there was more people out there like her.
She has some great tips, and stories in here. I hope everyone who owns a dog reads this. Even if its just to understand how dogs think if nothing else.


I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.

Great Book

Beyond Flight or Fight: A Compassionate Guide for Working with Fearful Dogs by Sunny Weber was a great read by the author. I loved reading this great book with tips and tricks to working with a dog who is fearful. This is a must read for any dog owner especially if they have anxieties.

❤️

As a proud mamma of 8 rescue dogs I definitely recommend this book. I always seem to end up with the "problem" dogs. From aggression to the severely timid ones it can be very frustrating dealing with them at times. This helps give you the tools needed to help rehabilitate troubled dogs.

The narrator did a great job.

This audiobook was provided by the author, narrator, or publisher at no cost in exchange for an unbiased review.

WONDERFUL

I have a GSD that is fearful. I learned SO MUCH from this book on audibles that I bought the hard copy also to study and apply better. Has a LOT of good gems in it.

his shoud be required reading/ for all pet owners!

I was amazed at the amount of knowledge this author has accumulated through her own study as well as through the studies of others!

In her book, Beyond Flight or Fright, Sunny Weber shares her vast knowledge of animals, especially dogs, psychological reactions.

Yes, that this what I said! While listening to this audiobook, narrated by Richard Rieman, I discovered many things about animal behavior that I many people have been misled by.

My family has had terrible experiences with raising dogs – mostly purebred – that ended up being given away or left at the Dog Pound after several times paying the hefty fines to retrieve them. I had animals as a child and never experienced the problems we had once I was married with children. My husband and I even had a small dog before we had children, that was like a child in behavior and our love for him. Through reading this book, I can see how we made many mistakes while training him. We followed disciplinary tacts we were tod to by whom we believed were professionals. I find we were taught wrong. We somehow loved the dog enough that he turned out very lovable.

After listening to this book, I discovered the reasons why our family was not successful in raising a dog or cat. I can now see the different traits in each we responded to badly. Luckily, we found homes for most of them where the new owner loved each animal and was successful in adopting them.

The author explains why the ways taught in the book/audiobook are the best. They all made sense. These are from many studies into the mindsets of animals. The individuals have closely studied different types of animal behaviors developed under various circumstances. These are from years of close observation of animal reactions and of failures and successes in adapting them to a human environment.

I think this book should be required reading before adopting a dog, or any animal, from shelters or other rescue centers. It would be wise for anyone obtaining a pet to study and follow this book.It was truly an “eye-opener” for me!

The Narrator, Richard Rieman did a very good job in adding feeling and varied voice inflections bringing this documentary type of sorry, alive!

This audiobook was gifted me with no pressure to ost a positive review. This is my honest review.

A deeply compelling guide - moving, inspiring, enlightening, beautiful and actionable. A must-listen for all animal lovers!

I will be listening to this book many times over. Through a weaving of compelling, compassionate and uplifting narratives, insights, information and instruction, Sunny Weber masterfully walks her reader/listener through the journey of evaluating and helping fearful dogs with varying backgrounds, temperaments and issues.
Ms. Weber reveals what the dogs themselves are experiencing at the various stages of interaction with humans and other fear stimuli emotionally, mentally and physically and how to both set a dog up for success and how to safely aid a dog who has already passed threshold into fear reaction spiral. Her book offers enlightenment and practical hands-on instruction for people who help fearful dogs as well as those who wish to more deeply understand their own dogs and other dogs with varying levels of timidity whom they meet along their way.
As well, the book provides reflection for all dog lovers on our human psychological dynamics in relation to dogs, one example of which is to never be shy about protecting or removing our dogs from potential negative interactions with other people or dogs.
It is my wish that every single person who cares about dogs will read/listen to this deeply moving, inspiring and ultimately refreshing book in order to elevate society’s level of “dog literacy” and compassion.

Fantastic

I just adopted an abused and badly neglected dog. This book was of immense help. It helped me understand what my dog Kobe is going through and the patience I needed to help him. I cried during the conclusion because it felt as if the author was talking to me directly and knew just what I was going through. This is a wonderful must read or listen to. Thank you Sunny Weber for writing this book

Very insightful...🐕

This book is great for anyone who rescues dogs.
As an avid animal lover, I'm always trying to find homes for the unwanted stray dogs and cats.
Behavior problems always make it difficult to find the right family to care for them.
As a result, I've ended up keeping the most challenging animals.
I have a very timid Chihuahua that's a constant work in progress.
I've tried to follow some the techniques a very popular pet whisper employs but some of his methods are just to abrasive for me.
By building trust like Sunny says, I've been able to make progress with him.
I much prefer this method to flooding.
This book offers many tips on how to handle behavioral problems in a non cruel way.
If you've ever wanted insight from your furry friends POV you'll want to listen to this.
I was lucky enough to be given this book for free that I highly recommend.