Conquering Ring Nerves: A Step-by-Step Program for All Dog Sports

How dog handlers can overcome performance anxiety when competing The AKC reports that more than 2 million entrants compete in events they sanction yearly, and thousands more compete under the auspices of other dog performance sport organizations. Designed for competitive dog handlers who experience mild to severe performance anxiety, this one-of-a-kind guide offers a complete desensitization program to help conquer competition jitters. Written by a psychotherapist who specializes in anxiety disorders, the book features illuminating real-life ring nerves stories and comes packed with proven tips and techniques to help handlers calm their nerves and achieve peak performance under pressure.

Dog-Friendly Dog Training

Provides information you need to know to develop a healthy relationship with a well-behaved dog. With easy-to-understand instructions and helpful illustrations, this guide begins with the necessary tools for teaching your dog, and then covers housetraining, socialization, basic manners, and problem solving, using proven, positive methods.

What All Good Dogs Should Know

A guide to positive dog training. It covers basic commands and includes information about walking on a leash, housetraining, and other 'good dog' behaviors. It features a chapter on the canine personality profile to help you understand your dog better and addresses issues common to rescue and shelter dogs, including shyness and insecurity.

The Loved Dog

Every dog owner must make a choice: Do you want a fearful and submissive pet, or do you want a happy, joyful, and well-mannered member of the family?. Tamar Geller's mission in life is to teach her cruelty-free method of ''life coaching'' for dogs and their people. Her revolutionary play-training uses mutual understanding and respect -- and puts an end to outdated methods that rely on physical exhaustion, choke chains, prong collars, dominance rollovers, or stressful aggression of any kind.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Positive Dog Training

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 commands and housetraining, and correct a host of problem behaviors. Readers will also learn loose-leash walking games and how to train for the American Kennel Club’s increasingly popular Canine Good Citizen test. • Dog owners number more than 40 million in the United States, and more and more of them are giving up on punitive training methods. • One of the few dog training books that exclusively adheres to positive training methods.

1000 Best Dog Training Secrets

Quick and easy secrets from the dog training experts.

Be the Pack Leader

Bestselling author Cesar Millan takes his principles of dog psychology a step further, showing you how to develop the calm-assertive energy of a successful pack leader and use it to improve your dog’s life–and your own. Filled with practical tips and techniques as well as real-life success stories from his clients (including the Grogan family, owners of Marley from Marley & Me ) and his popular television show Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan, Cesar helps you understand and read your dog’s energy as well as your own so that you can move beyond just correcting behavioral issues and take your connection with your dog to the next level.

How to Raise the Perfect Dog

From the bestselling author and star of National Geographic Channel's Dog Whisperer , the only resource you’ll need for raising a happy, healthy dog. For the millions of people every year who consider bringing a puppy into their lives–as well as those who have already brought a dog home–Cesar Millan, the preeminent dog behavior expert, says, "Yes, you can raise the perfect dog!" It all starts with the proper foundation in the early years.

Cesar's Way

“I rehabilitate dogs. I train people.” —Cesar Millan There are at least 68 million dogs in America, and their owners lavish billions of dollars on them every year. So why do so many pampered pets have problems? In this definitive and accessible guide, Cesar Millan—star of National Geographic Channel’s hit show Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan —reveals what dogs truly need to live a happy and fulfilled life.

A Member of the Family

Many of us think of our dogs not as pets but as full-fledged members of our families. If you own a dog—or are thinking about getting one— A Member of the Family is the ultimate resource for integrating your canine companion into the life of your household.

The Power of Positive Dog Training

Updated with the latest tools and techniques—including the clicker method. Renowned dog trainer Pat Miller gives you the positive training tools you need to ensure that you and your dog share a lifetime of fun, companionship, and respect. Following her step-by-step, six-week basic training program, you'll learn how to develop a relationship with your dog based on friendship and positive reinforcement, not fear and punishment. Plus, you'll get:.:.;. Information on the importance of observing, understanding, and reacting appropriately to your dog's body language.;. Instructions on how to phase out the use of a clicker and treats to introduce more advanced training concepts.;. A helpful diary to track progress, suggestions for delicious treats your dog will respond to, and a glossary of training terms. Whether you've never trained a dog or are just switching over to positive training, with Pat's proven method you'll discover that training your four-legged friend is easy, fun, and effective. Now that's The Power of Positive Dog Training .

Dog Rules

In this groundbreaking guide, elite dog trainer Kyra Sundance reveals the path to helping your dog be a reliable partner and true member of your family. Kyra -- a world-acclaimed Stunt Dog Team performer, nationally ranked dog sports competitor, and movie dog trainer -- holds the human-dog bond at the heart of her training method. She cares for her dogs with tenderness, trains them thoroughly, and inspires them to excel.If you're battling the same problems with your dog over and over, then the training method you're using isn't working. Instead of more training, what's needed is better training. Kyra's "whole-dog" approach looks beyond sterile training methods that manipulate through reward and punishment and instead advocates humane behavior modification techniques to establish expectations without compromising love.

Grab Life by the Leash

The only dog care and training book you'll ever need. This is the ultimate, one-stop dog parent's book—it covers everything you need to know about living with, training, and caring for your canine kid.

Bonding with Your Dog

A strong human-canine bond is the foundation of successful training. In this groundbreaking new book, veteran trainer Victoria Schade explains how developing a human-canine bond based on trust and mutual respect is the key to training a happy, well-behaved, and well-adjusted dog. Readers begin by taking a quiz to analyze their current relationship with their dog and then go on to learn the six steps to building a bondâ?“from granting privileges and being consistent to offering ample praise and making time for play. Victoria Schade (Falls Church, VA) is an APDT Certified Pet Dog Trainer and owner of Good Dog! Obedience Training. She was named one of the best D.C.-area trainers by Washingtonian magazine. Her training video New Puppy! Now What? won a Maxwell Award from the Dog Writers' Association of America. She has appeared on Animal Planet and is a contract blogger for the NBC-owned Web site petside.com.

How to Housebreak Your Dog in 7 Days

How to Housebreak Your Dog in 7 Days

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 owners alike. This new edition features plenty of new and revised material on everything from the latest housetraining equipment to the latest information on diet and nutrition and the crucial role it plays in housetraining. You'll also find useful tips and techniques for creating environmentally safe cleaners from natural products found in the home and alternatives you can use if you have a sensitive pet.: Features the latest findings on how pet nutrition can influence housetraining success; Offers proven housetraining strategies; Introduces new methods for housetraining multiple pets at once; Reviews new housetraining equipment and products; Shows you how to make environmentally safe stain and odor removers from products already in your home; Susan McCullough is a columnist for Dog Fancy magazine and the author of several books including Beagles For Dummies and the award-winning Senior Dogs For Dummies. Housetraining can be a difficult and stressful process for both you and your puppy, adult, or senior dog. Housetraining For Dummies 2nd Edition is the resource you need to make it faster and easier for both of you.

The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Housetraining your Dog

When a dog’s gotta go …. Any new dog owner will tell you: housetraining comes first. Presented step-by-step, here is all the information needed to accomplish this task. It covers everything from puppies to rescued dogs to tiny dogs—and more than one tried-and-true method. With special sections on housetraining for busy owners, apartment-training, and how to get the quickest results, this guide will surely become man’s second-best friend.

Puppy Love

Combining informative text with beautiful full-color photographs, this book covers everything you need to know about caring for puppies from birth to age six months. Busy puppy parents will get fast and authoritative advice on:.:. ;. Puppy-proofing your home and yard. ;. What age to bring home a puppy. ;. Housetraining. ;. The first trip to the vet. ;. Crate training. ;. Feeding. ;. Socialization. ;. And much more. Whether you're a proud puppy parent or just love to admire these adorable bundles of joy, this is a charming book you'll turn to again and again. A Certified Pet Dog Trainer and Certified Animal Behavior Consultant, Liz Palika has written more than fifty books. She has received two prestigious Maxwell Awards from the Dog Writers' Association of America. Her work has been published in Newsweek, Dog World, Dog Fancy, the AKC Gazette, and other magazines.

My Smart Puppy

America's most beloved dog trainers are back with brand-new training techniques in the definitive guide to raising a happy, obedient puppy. Photos.