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#1 Amazon Bestseller Does your dog bark at everyone he sees? Are you trying hard to settle your dog on frantic, noisy walks? Do you live with canine reactivity and wish you could turn things around? Are you looking for a solution and guidance to properly help your worried best friend? Here it is. Written by a long-term dog behaviour specialist and founder of Canine Principles, canine education provider, this book will provide all the understanding you need. You will learn: What your dog is trying to tell you. How to communicate in a way that you both understand. How to ensure you are fully meeting your dog's needs. Why your dog acts up and why he can't help it. Why walking your dog might not...
Why do you need this book? Excellent communication is relevant to interaction between all individuals whether sharing information within or outside our own species. Communication is paramount to excellent relationships. As humans, we already have an entire range of listening blocks with each other, so with dogs with a completely different language. So, how do we even manage to communicate at all? Thankfully dogs know our limits, so have spent hundreds of years perfecting their own communication skills to cope with the self-imposed boundaries of ours. The dogs in our homes are signalling, passing messages and displaying obvious requests most of the time. The humble house dog is a master commu...
How do I change my dog's behaviour without taking away their freedom to be a dog? How do I know if I'm meeting my dog's needs? Or even what those needs are? The answer is Good Guardianship. Join bestselling writer and dog obsessive Sally Gutteridge to consider what your dog needs, in their life with you in her latest book. Get right to the heart of your dog and learn how to recognise and meet their individual preferences. Provide safe opportunities to practice natural dog behaviour, while also creating enriching experiences that build confidence and reduce stress. Learn how to change unhelpful behaviour ethically. Work wonders by teaching your dog new skills and changing unhelpful behaviours while also building trust and friendship. Good Guardianship is about being a good and ethical dog guardian for the canine in your life. It's an authentic and kind look at the life of the domestic dog and how we can make their time with us, and on Earth, as natural as possible.
What happens when you are walking with your dog and see a dog off lead? Does the presence of the strange dog unnerve you? Do you become tense? Does your dog tense up? If this is you, read on. Living with a reactive dog can accidently create a reactive person and a cycle of negative experiences begin. There is an answer though! With understanding comes positive change. It might not have always been this way, perhaps walking once triggered positive emotion. Maybe we were happy until something specific happened, for example we met someone with an unfriendly dog that attacked ours or made them really scared. We too could have felt scared, then that fear grew over the next few walks, until we fel...
Are you looking for a book that helps you truly understand canine fear and learned helplessness? Would you like to help a scared dog but they seem so shut-down and unresponsive? This book will help you. The book is based on the real-life rehabilitation of Holly, the writer's York and puppy farm survivor. It talks about how she arrived, her healing process and who she is now. Along the way, the writer offers advice and insight into true empathy and understanding. You will learn how Holly unpacked and built her confidence in a new and safe home after spending six years as a puppy farm parent dog. The book places focus on how to facilitate an environment where even the most emotional traumatise...
When Jess is knocked off her bicycle she finds her self at the gates of Heaven early - before her actual death date. Striking a deal with the angel on duty she is allowed to return to earth to visit her friends and family in invisible ghost form, until she's due back to the Pearly gates. But Jess soon learns more about her friends and family than she ever realised and ultimately she is faced with a real life or death dilemma.
Predation Substitute Training is a force-free and motivation-based training program to stop predatory chasing in dogs.
How to Behave So Your Dog Behaves takes a scientifically sound yet practical approach to explaining dog behavior and training theory, and then shows you how to apply these concepts so you can train your dog to be well behaved. Written by one of the leading veterinary behaviorists in the country, this revised and expanded edition of the original bestseller features brand new chapters that provide the most up-to-date science of dog behavior and explains key concepts in clear, straightforward language. The user-friendly, full-color instructional drawings enhance the informative text, while the all-positive training advice helps you change undesirable behaviors without resorting to aversive corrections such as yelling, hitting, pushing, or other outdated forms of punishment. Good behavior and problem solving exercises are broken down into easy-to-read "5 Minute" sections, while "Spot" quizzes throughout the text help reinforce your grasp of the material. Science-based methods for observing, understanding, and modifying behavior are applied to everyday situations, offering numerous examples of how training exercises can be turned into fun games for both dogs and owners.
Take your dog from frantic, fired up and unable to concentrate to an easy and satisfied member of the family, by teaching simple choices through positive coaching, and scentwork like a professional. Book One Are you wondering how you can teach your dog new and helpful behaviours. Perhaps you want to empower your friend and use positive methods for excellent results? Maybe you''re confused by all the different dog training methods out there and don''t know where to start? Welcome to the world of Canine Coaching, teaching great skills through excellent choices. You will learn: The skills behind dynamic and effective canine coaching. How your dog learns. The neuroscience of excellent learning. ...
If your dog could choose a book for you to read it would surely be this one. Behaviorist, Shay Kelly shows you how to become your dog's best friend by providing simple, fun activities to spark their mind and enrich their life. A lack of mental stimulation is a leading contributory factor in dog behavioural problems. Ensuring that our dog's needs are met is the first step in avoiding and rectifying problematic behaviour. Shay's practical approach and behaviour knowledge combine in this critically acclaimed book, to deliver practical, kind, and scientific advice. ~ What Dr Susan Friedman says about the book: I am so happy to have Shay Kelly's book, "Canine Enrichment" to recommend to all anima...