Just imagine - you are looking for your first dog, a puppy and when you contact a breeder he tells you that you need to learn everything about dogs from him, before he is willing to trust you with one of his puppies.

As a 19-year-old I desperately wanted to own a dog, so I agreed to be taught by the breeder Karl Werner. I was not expecting that what I was going to learn would shape my view on dogs in a very crucial way. Even less did I realise that more than 40 years later I was going to pass on this knowledge to others by writing this book.

This is not based on theory, but only on the practical experience from three generations of the male line of the Werner family. They possessed a key to a dog communication system which they called the

Inherited Pack Position.