Tag: dog training
The Koehler Method of Dog Training
Since its first appearance in 1962, this popular dog training book has gone through 38 printings and sold more than 475,000 copies. The instructions and training approaches given here can be equally successful with groups in a training class environment or for individuals training alone. This new edition presents a pertinent update of AKC Novice [...]
Cesar’s Way Deck: 50 Tips for Training and Understanding Your Dog
Cesar Millan, star of TV’s Dog Whisperer, offers definitive and accessible advice for understanding dog behavior and correcting common dog problems. Drawn from his bestselling book, Cesar’s Way, this deck of fifty cards brings his wisdom and expertise right to your fingertips. Organized by theme, these cards will teach you: How to set rules and [...]
Bonding with Your Dog: A Trainer’s Secrets for Building a Better Relationship
The human-canine bond: a relationship steeped in love with equal parts mutual respect, trust, and regard In this groundbreaking book, professional dog trainer Victoria Schade reveals that a successful relationship between you and your dog isn’t about establishing yourself as the pack leader, but about building a meaningful bond. She explains how this bond forms [...]
Clicking With Your Dog: Step-By-Step in Pictures
Clicker Training: Step-by-Step In Pictures. Teach you dog the friendly, easy way to sit to greet people, walk on a leash without pulling, come when called, stay home alone quietly, find the right place to “go” and play hide and seek and other fun games and tricks. Clicking With Your Dog: Step-By-Step in Pictures
Doctor Dunbar’s Good Little Dog Book
This little book is intended primarily as a brief but comprehensive guide to puppy training. Consequently, it contains hints for socialization, temperament training and behavior modification as well as tips for teaching basic manners. Dr. Dunbar’s lure/reward training techniques are certainly not limited to puppies. On the contrary, they have become the method of choice [...]
Clicker Training for Obedience: Shaping Top Performance-Positively
Shaping top performance positively! In this breakthrough book, Morgan Spector shows you how and why to use clicker training, the technology of operant conditioning and positive reinforcement, to train you dog. Whether you’re starting off with a new puppy or headed for the Obedience ring, these step-by-step instructions will work for you. You’ll learn how [...]
Click Your Way to Rally Obedience
Rally O is the fastest growing dog sport in America! Using quick, easy, positive methods with a clicker and food rewards, Dennison explains how you can train your own dog to excel in Rally. Dennison is a certified member of APDT. She trains at her facility in New England and has been competing in various [...]
Outwitting Dogs: Revolutionary Techniques For Dog Training That Work!
Training dogs has traditionally been done by using negative reinforcement and brute force (take the choke collar as an example). But the tide is turning, and Terry Ryan, well-known dog trainer, is at the forefront of a revolution. OUTWITTING DOGS draws on her twentyfive years of hands-on experience helping people understand and train dogs, and [...]
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Positive Dog Training, 2nd Edition
Spare the punishment and raise a happy, well-behaved dog … The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Positive Dog Training, Second Edition, replaces the standard punishment-based training methods that have potential consequences for puppies and limited effectiveness with older dogs. This guide demonstrates positive training methods, based on a system of rewards and encouragement, to teach basic [...]
ABC Practical Guide to Dog Training
With the proliferation of titles in the market today, why another book on pet dog training? Because most of them sound wonderful, but don’t work! And the dogs being trained often develop problems as a result. Frustrated pet owners are looking for practical, humane answers — that provide results. The experienced approach contained in The ABC Practical [...]
How to Teach a New Dog Old Tricks
Fun training with toys, treats, lures and rewards. Easy and effective, dog-friendly techniques for teaching a new puppy old tricks (such as basic manners), or for teaching an older dog that is new to training. Heralded by many dog trainers as ‘the best dog training book ever written’. A comprehensive workbook for the motivated dog [...]
Scaredy Dog! Understanding and Rehabilitating Your Reactive Dog
When dogs growl at other dogs, lunge at people, and bark at everything it’s often mislabeled as “aggression.” But most aggression is fear-based and should be treated as such. The appropriate term for this constellation of behaviors is “reactivity.” This book helps the trainer and dedicated dog owner to understand the reactive dog and help [...]
Good Dog 101: Easy Lessons to Train Your Dog the Happy, Healthy Way
Abandoning traditional training methods, which tend to use punishment and physical dominance, progressive dog-trainer Cristine Dahl incorporates studies of animal behavior and humane treatment into an approach called Learning Theory. Though Learning Theory is the top method suggested by the SPCA, a practical guide has not yet been published for dog-owners. Here it is — [...]
Housetraining For Dummies
The latest information and tips on making housetraining easier for your pet and yourself Did you know that what you feed your dog can effect help or hinder the housetraining process? That’s just one of the valuable tips you’ll find in Housetraining For Dummies 2nd Edition, the authoritative housetraining reference for new and veteran pet [...]
The Canine Good Citizen: Every Dog Can Be One, Second Edition
“…purebred or mixed, with this book any dog can become a Canine Good Citizen…. The Volhards’…approach to training, which they call the Motivational Method,…is designed to do just that—motivate the owner and the dog. The Motivational Method is grounded on a thorough knowledge of how people learn and dog behavior. Since 1983 they have authored [...]
