Lee Charles Kelley
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Lee Charles Kelley is an American novelist and dog trainer living in Manhattan
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Kelley is the author of six detective novels featuring Jack Field, an NYPD homicide cop who loves dogs and hates people, so he takes early retirement, moves to Maine, and buys a boarding and training kennel, hoping to get away from crimesolving. However, he falls in love with a part-time medical examiner, Dr. Jamie Cutter, and gets drawn back into detective work. Together the couple, along with their loyal canine companions, track down and catch the bad guys.
Kelley's novels are best described as a combination of murder mystery, romantic comedy, and dog training manuals, as they include comic, sometimes even farcical scenes, along with dog training tips, all woven into the mystery and suspense.
His critiques of the alpha theory
and operant conditioning
have made him a somewhat controversial figure in the dog world, which eventually led to an invitation from the editors of Psychology Todayhttp://www.psychologytoday.com/ to write a blog http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/my-puppy-my-self on dog training and canine behavior for their website. The blog is titled "My Puppy, My Self."
The training philosophy and techniques Kelley uses are based on a methodology created by Kevin Behan http://naturaldogtraining.com/kevin-behan/, author of Natural Dog Training http://naturaldogtraining.com/category/articles/ and Your Dog Is Your Mirror. (Behan's father was John M. Behan http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0717F83F541A7B93C1A8178DD85F478685F9&scp=1&sq=john%20behan&st=cse, a legendary K-9 Corps trainer during World War II, and the author of Dogs of Warhttp://openlibrary.org/b/OL6496100M/Dogs-of-war.)
Kelley's first dog, Charley, was featured on Late Night with David Letterman on NBC, from October of 1989 to February of 1990, as "Charlie [sic] the Bubble-Eating Dog (who never ate bubbles)."Late Night with David Letterman#Recurring Late Night segments Charley's first night of not eating bubbles was also the first time Julia Roberts appeared with Letterman.
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
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Kelley is the author of six detective novels featuring Jack Field, an NYPD homicide cop who loves dogs and hates people, so he takes early retirement, moves to Maine, and buys a boarding and training kennel, hoping to get away from crimesolving. However, he falls in love with a part-time medical examiner, Dr. Jamie Cutter, and gets drawn back into detective work. Together the couple, along with their loyal canine companions, track down and catch the bad guys.
Kelley's novels are best described as a combination of murder mystery, romantic comedy, and dog training manuals, as they include comic, sometimes even farcical scenes, along with dog training tips, all woven into the mystery and suspense.
His critiques of the alpha theory
Alpha roll
An alpha roll is a technique used in dog training to discipline a misbehaving dog. It consists of flipping the dog onto its back and holding it in that position, sometimes by the throat...
and operant conditioning
Operant conditioning
Operant conditioning is a form of psychological learning during which an individual modifies the occurrence and form of its own behavior due to the association of the behavior with a stimulus...
have made him a somewhat controversial figure in the dog world, which eventually led to an invitation from the editors of Psychology Todayhttp://www.psychologytoday.com/ to write a blog http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/my-puppy-my-self on dog training and canine behavior for their website. The blog is titled "My Puppy, My Self."
The training philosophy and techniques Kelley uses are based on a methodology created by Kevin Behan http://naturaldogtraining.com/kevin-behan/, author of Natural Dog Training http://naturaldogtraining.com/category/articles/ and Your Dog Is Your Mirror. (Behan's father was John M. Behan http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0717F83F541A7B93C1A8178DD85F478685F9&scp=1&sq=john%20behan&st=cse, a legendary K-9 Corps trainer during World War II, and the author of Dogs of Warhttp://openlibrary.org/b/OL6496100M/Dogs-of-war.)
Kelley's first dog, Charley, was featured on Late Night with David Letterman on NBC, from October of 1989 to February of 1990, as "Charlie [sic] the Bubble-Eating Dog (who never ate bubbles)."Late Night with David Letterman#Recurring Late Night segments Charley's first night of not eating bubbles was also the first time Julia Roberts appeared with Letterman.
Publications
- A Nose for Murder. New York : Avon Books, 2003. 267 p. ; 18 cm. ISBN 0-06-052493-6 (pbk.)
- Murder Unleashed. New York : Avon Books, c2004. viii, 291 p. ; 18 cm. ISBN 0-06-052494-4
- To Collar a Killer. New York : Avon Books, 2004. viii, 286 p. ; 18 cm. ISBN 0-06-052495-2
- ’Twas the Bite Before Christmas. New York : Avon Books, c2005. 366 p. ; 18 cm. ISBN 0-7394-6046-3 (hardcover), ISBN 0-06-073228-8 (pbk.)
- Dogged Pursuit. New York : Avon Books, 2006. Trimsize: 4 3/16 x 6 3/4; Pages: 320; ISBN 0-06-073229-6;
- Like a Dog with a Bone, New York : Avon Books, 2007 Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages ISBN 0-06-073230-X
- The French Poodle Connection, a Jack Field short story, appears in the anthology, Bark M for Murder (an anthology of "Canine crime tales from the best of the breed!") J.A. Jance ... [et al.]. New York : Avon Books, 2006. 313 p. ; 18 cm. ISBN 0-06-081537-X (pbk.)