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Dog Training Books

Basic, Advanced, Tricks, Service, Agility & Hunting

Bones Would Rain From the Sky: Deepening Our Relationships with Dogs
You will discover how our dogs see the world from their uniquely canine perspective, how we can meet their deep need for leadership without using force or coercion, and how the "laws" of canine culture often put our dogs at odds with us and our very human world. Clothier's unparalleled insights into aggression in dogs can help prevent a tragedy, including the unnecessary destruction of a pet. As in no other "dog book" or training manual, in BONES WOULD RAIN FROM THE SKY an extraordinary woman shows us how to find a deep connection with another being and to receive an incomparable gift: a profound, lifelong relationship with the dog you love.

The Dog Whisperer: A Compassionate, Nonviolent Approach to Dog Training
Trainer Paul Owens offers a compassionate, nonviolent approach to dog training. His spiritual approach links sound training principles with intuitive and effective insights. Owens' compassionate training methods will help you create an emotional bridge to "plug in" and create a deeper bond with your dog than you thought possible. The Dog Whisperer offers a truly humane, revolutionary, and common sense approach to raising and training your dog. You will learn:
* Learn "dog speak" the body language and vocalizations needed to communicate with your dog.
* How to train your dog without jerking, hitting, kicking, shocking, or shaking
* How to turn affection, play, toys, praise, and social freedom into powerful rewards.
* Learn five ways to establish a leadership role so your dog will happily follow your lead.
* Eliminate behavioral problems such as jumping, barking, and digging.
* How easy and fun training can be when you use The Nine Ingredients of Reward-Based Dog Training and turn affection, play, toys, praise, and social freedom into powerful rewards.

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 or co-authored four major books on dog training and teaching dog Obedience classes, and have produced four video tapes. I am...pleased that they have written this book on the Canine Good Citizen. I cannot think of anyone else who could have done a better job. This book contains everything the reader needs to know about training any dog to become a Canine Good Citizen. Still, there is much more—the book shares a wealth of insights for the beginner, as well as the experienced dog person. The book's best feature is that it gives each person the means to tailor the training to the individual dog's character and temperament. It thoroughly explains what makes dogs different and how these differences dictate the approach to training that needs to be taken." –James E. Dearinger, AKC Vice President, Obedience

Housetraining For Dummies
An effective guide to housetraining your dog quickly and easily
Discover how to put your puppy on the cleanliness track
Answers housetraining questions that dog owners are too embarrassed to ask
This easy-to-follow guide takes the mystery out of housetraining. Find out how to use encouragement and positive reinforcement to successfully housetrain your new pup or your older dog. Author Susan McCullough provides inventive solutions to common – and uncommon – housetraining problems.

What All Good Dogs Should Know: The Sensible Way to Train
Those who love their dogs will find a wealth of clear, precise and sensible instructions here for teaching their canine companions to be the ideal pet. In the ultimate guide for teaching your dog good manners, two award-winning authors take the reader through a short course in dog behavior, highlighted by original cartoon art. Humorous yet practical suggestions are presented for preventing bad habits, dealing with a dog's basic needs, growth stages and why things happen and when. What All Good Dogs Should Know abounds with practical information on a motivational, humane and highly effective approach to dog training. This book is essential for anyone who values a dog as a friend, pet and companion.

New Complete Dog Training Manual
The ultimate dog training manual, perfect for any breed of dog. Beautifully illustrated with full--color photographs and detailed annotations, the New Complete Dog Training Manual shows you how to establish routines, implement commands, break bad habits, and learn how to train various breeds. Concise and easy--to--use, this enhanced edition of the consummate guide to dog training and behavior modification offers a refreshing, one--stop resource for new owners, and a wealth of knowledge for veterans.

Catch Your Dog Doing Something Right: How to Train Any Dog in Five Minutes a Day
Taking a unique no-force training approach, "Catch Your Dog Doing Something Right" shows how happy dogs learn faster and have fewer problems when training sessions feel like playtime. Fifteen exercises demonstrate how dogs learn and reveal how to change a dog's behavior, while stories, facts, and step-by-step instructions make this book easy to understand. Photos .

Paws for a Minute : People Training for Dog Owners
A witty and informative dog owner's guide that gives dog training a new vision. Training must make sense to you and be easy to apply within your lifestyle. Inger Martens makes all this possible with her unique and energetic approach, which combines education with entertainment to make training your pooch simple and fun! Paws for a Minute offers easy, common-sense solutions that will unleash the potential of any dog owner. Inger's "people training" twist adds humor and shows you how to be smarter than your dog. This fresh perspective gives all new pups a tail wag in the right direction and puts dog owners on the right track to a happy relationship with their dogs, be they puppies, older dogs, or those rescued from a shelter.

Excel-Erated Learning: Explaining in Plain English How Dogs Learn and How Best to Teach Them
Great news for those of you who have wanted to read a book that explains animal learning in a manner that is easily understood and entertaining. With the freedom of understanding 'how your dog learns' comes the ability of making the process easy, efficient and enjoyable for your dog. You'll be in a position to excel-erate your dog's learning! Agility enthusiast, obedience competitor and psychologist Dr. Pamela Reid introduces you to cutting-edge scientific techniques in dog training including, autoshaping retrieval (i.e., letting the dog train itself), and 'errorless discrimination learning' for teaching scent articles and directed jumping. The combination of a relaxed writing style and numerous examples that relate to dog training makes learning theory actually fun to learn.

Housebreaking: Pure and Simple
Housebreaking "Pure and Simple" is a safe and effective method for housebreaking all types and sizes of dogs, from toys to giants, Yorkies to Mastiffs, and everything in between. The program can be initiated when the puppy is eight weeks old and is also proven effective on older puppies and dogs of any age.
It is suitable for any owner, regardless of work schedule, lifestyle or whether you live in an apartment or private home.
Included in this text is all the pertinent information you will need to successfully housebreak your dog.

Civilizing Your Puppy
Practical tips and color photos, this book shows readers the right way to housebreak a puppy. Wrede covers obedience training, teaching boundaries, bathing and grooming, car manners, veterinary care, eating habits, and more.

Don't Shoot the Dog! : The New Art of Teaching and Training
Karen Pryor clearly explains the underlying principles of behavioral training and through numerous fascinating examples reveals how this art can be applied to virtually any common situation. And best of all, she tells how to do it without yelling.

The Other End of the Leash
Demonstrates how even the slightest changes in your voice and the way you stand can help your dog understand what you want. Once you start to think about your own behavior from the perspective of your dog, you’ll understand why much of what appears to be doggy-disobedience is simply a case of miscommunication. Inside you will learn
• How to use your voice so that your dog is more likely to do what you ask.
• Why “getting dominance” over your dog is a bad idea.
• Why “rough and tumble primate play” can lead to trouble–and how to play with your dog in ways that are fun and keep him out of trouble.
• How dogs and humans share personality types–and why most dogs want to live with benevolent leaders rather than “alphawannabees!”
In her own insightful, compelling style, Patricia McConnell combines wonderful true stories about people and dogs with a new, accessible scientific perspective on how they should behave around each other. This is a book that strives to help you make the most of life with your dog, and to prevent problems that might arise in that most rewarding of relationships.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Positive Dog Training (Complete Idiot's Guide To...)
Author Pamela Dennison, owner of Positive Motivation Dog Training, has been training dogs since 1992. After switching methods from traditional punishment-based training methods to positive training, Pam started her own school in 1997 and has helped more than 500 owners to build better relationships with their dogs.

This book will be the first to offer readers practical advice on using positive training techniques in every aspect of dog behavior-from basic commands to housetraining and correcting problem behaviors.

There are currently more than 43 million dog owners in the U.S., and more and more of them are giving up on punitive methods of training their dogs.

The Power of Positive Dog Training
The best book yet on explaining how and why purely positive training works. Inside, you'll find easy to read discussion of the philosophy of positive training followed by training tips and exercises. This book is geared toward the dog owner who wants to develop a relationship with their dog based on friendship and positive reinforcement, not fear and punishment. You get 30 chapters with instructive illustrations, including an easy-to-follow, step-by-step, six-week basic training program (with diary) for any dog.

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.

Adopt the Perfect Dog: A Practical Guide to Choosing and Training an Adult Dog
Reviewer: "A truely worthwhile book -- leads those interested in adopting and saving the life of a shelter dog, rather than taking the puppy mill or breeder routes, through a step-by-step analysis of how to ascertain the right dog for your family and how to judge a dog by more than its cover! Buy it and you will feel empowered in the proper way to go about making a friend for life."

Second-Hand Dog : How to Turn Yours into a First-Rate Pet
Describes the care, training, and rehabilitation of previously owned or formerly homeless dogs, focusing on their special problems and needs.
"Why a book like this has never before been written is beyond me. It is an invaluable guide to rehabilitating those myriad unfortunate dogs which have either never had a home or have been shuttled from one owner to another, losing confidence, trust and self-esteem every step of the way. It is an absolute must for every owner who wants his second-hand dog to regain the ability to become the warm, loving companion every dog should be." —Kenneth A. Marden President, The American Kennel Club

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 owner, comprising sections on basic off-leash obedience, temperament modification, behavior troubleshooting, training theory and health care. The definitive text for lure/reward training philosophy.

Dog Tricks: New Tricks for Old Dogs, Old Tricks for New Dogs, and Ageless Tricks That Give Wise Men Paws
In Dog Tricks world-class trainers offer more than 80 challenging and unusual activities to teach your dog, including simple tricks that even the most stubborn pets can be taught to perform. Jumping rope" and the "telephone answering machine trick" are among the more advanced acts outlined in this amusingly illustrated guide that comes packaged with a colorful plastic flying disk. The book, which features 45 drawings.

The Everything Dog Training and Tricks Book: Turn the Most Mischievous Canine into a Well-Behaved Dog Who Knows a Few Tricks (Everything Series)
As every dog owner knows, it takes a lot of time and patience to train a dog—and even more to get him to do tricks and show off in front of friends. In The Everything® Dog Training and Tricks Book, Canine University cofounder Gerilyn Bielakiewicz explains how to solve virtually every behavioral issue—from aggressiveness to digging—and guides you through teaching all kinds of feats, whether your dog is in "kindergarten" or has graduated to "circus dog." Features training tips for . . .
·Controlling unwanted behavior
·Housebreaking
·Introductions
·Using a clicker
·Walking on a leash
And amazing tricks, such as . . .
·Get the phone
·Kiss me
·Push a baby carriage
·Sea hunt
·Show me your best side
·Wave and high five

The Working Retrievers: The Classic Book for the Training, Care, and Handling of Retrievers for Hunting and Field Trials
Covers every aspect of training dogs for hunting and field trials, from the beginning to the most advanced levels. The book also surveys the various retriever breeds--Labradors, Goldens, Chesapeakes, and others--and their histories. Quinn then takes us, step by step, through the training process. Also included is information on feeding, care, and transportation; breeding; buying and selling; and other matters of vital importance. Accompanied with photographs, line drawings, and a gorgeous, 16-page, full-color insert with both photographs and some of the author's own fabulous paintings, THE WORKING RETRIEVERS is an expert, comprehensive guide to be cherished by all who love retrievers. It belongs on every outdoorsman's bookshelf.

Search and Rescue Dogs: Training the K-9 Hero, Second Edition
First published in 1991 to critical acclaim, this newly expanded and revised edition of Search and Rescue Dogs: Training the K-9 Hero, contains original, updated content. Chapters describe cutting-edge training techniques used for wilderness, disaster, cadaver dogs, and water searches, and by state and federal disaster organizations such as FEMA.
Search and Rescue Dogs: Training the K-9 Hero, 2nd Edition provides:
Clear, step-by-step lessons on training your dog for a variety of search and rescue operations Ways to keep your dog–and yourself–safe in the face of disaster Practical information on procedures and equipment for dogs, handlers, and human volunteers The ultimate experience of the interdependence of Human and Dog Extensive photographs illustrate real-life missions, including images of Ground Zero and the Pentagon taken by ARDA volunteers after September 11, 2001.

The Ultimate Guide to Bird Dog Training
Explains how to train a bird dog to hunt at a pace that suits a man walking, and to point and hold birds with all the elegance and style of a field trial champion. It combines successful traditional methods with modern electronic techniques to show how the nation's top professional gundog trainers develop reliable hunting dogs that are easy to control, exciting to watch, and stylish on point.
The author has traveled around the United States for more than thirty years studying how professional trainers develop the most dependable and enjoyable hunting dogs, and passing that information along to readers. In this book, he provides everything a reader needs to know to train pointing dogs for hunting in the close-cover conditions found in most parts of the country today. (61/4 X 91/4, 268 pages, b&w photos, diagrams)

Therapy Dogs: Training Your Dog to Help Others
Therapy Dogs, Training Your Dog to Reach Others, 2nd Edition gives you all the information you need to select, socialize and train your dog for this work. What better creature than a dog to offer comfort, companionship and even entertainment to people in a wide variety of settings?
You will learn: *What therapy dog work involves and how to train for it.
*Benefits therapy dog work provides for you, your dog and others.
*Various settings in which therapy dog teams do their work.
*Whether your family pet might make a good therapy dog.
*Selecting and training a puppy for therapy dog work.
*How to keep yourself and your dog fresh for the work.
INCLUDES a complete course outline for teaching therapy dog classes!

Working as a Therapy Dog
Numerous, vivid, heartwarming examples of "small miracles" that take place when a therapy dog visits people in a variety of venues: nursing homes, psychiatric institutions, special facilities for mentally and physically challenged young adults, etc. The book is at times deeply moving as well as frequently humorous.

Included are informative chapters on how your dog can be trained and prepared to be a therapy dog, and practical applications of how to be more effective in Animal Assisted Therapy.

Informative as well as a good "pleasure reading" book, it is written in plain language, just like a friend telling the reader a story about what happened the other day at work.

Introduction to Dog Agility
Written especially for beginning canine Agility competition enthusiasts, this manual covers all aspects of the competitive sport. The author starts with instruction on evaluating a dog's physical fitness and overall readiness for Agility training, then makes specific diet recommendations, and advises on treatment of injuries and the use of positive training methods. Advanced discussion describes obstacles used in Agility competitions, then shows how to teach the dog jumps, getting through tunnels, and other competition events. Filled with instructive full-color photos and illustrations.

Enjoying Dog Agility: From Backyard to Competition
This book is intended for those people--and their dogs--who are interested in dog agility at both the beginning and competitive levels. Julie Daniels provides the reader with a wealth of information on practical and useful training techniques. Lavishly illustrated, this book is a must for anyone who is considering teaming with his or her dog for the sport of dog agility.

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