Author: Pat Miller
Publisher: Dogwise Publishing
ISBN: 1929242948
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Pat Miller explores the role and benefits of play between you and your dog - and between dogs. Play behaviors have important learning and health benefits that help dogs become well-adjusted members of both their canine and human families. Through play your dog learns dog-to-dog social graces and is mentally and physically stimulated. Play can be a great training tool, helping to build the relationship between you and your dog. And while play comes naturally to most dogs, there are many who need to be encouraged to discover their "inner puppy." Pat includes dozens of game ideas collected from trainers all over the country you can try out with your dog(s).
Play with Your Dog
Author: Pat Miller
Publisher: Dogwise Publishing
ISBN: 1929242557
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Play is essential to the well-being of your dog and for developing sound social relationships between dogs and dogs and dogs and humans. Learn how to use play to socialize, stimulate and enjoy your best friend.
Publisher: Dogwise Publishing
ISBN: 1929242557
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Play is essential to the well-being of your dog and for developing sound social relationships between dogs and dogs and dogs and humans. Learn how to use play to socialize, stimulate and enjoy your best friend.
Zak George's Dog Training Revolution
Author: Zak George
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1607748916
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A revolutionary way to raise and train your dog, with “a wealth of practical tips, tricks, and fun games that will enrich the lives of many dogs and their human companions” (Dr. Ian Dunbar, veterinarian and animal behaviorist). Zak George is a new type of dog trainer. A dynamic YouTube star and Animal Planet personality with a fresh approach, Zak helps you tailor dog training to your pet’s unique traits and energy level—leading to quicker results and a much happier pup. For the first time, Zak has distilled the information from his hundreds of videos and experience with thousands of dogs into this comprehensive dog and puppy training guide that includes: • Choosing the right pup for you • Housetraining and basic training • Handling biting, leash pulling, jumping up, barking, aggression, chewing, and other behavioral issues • Health care essentials like finding a vet and selecting the right food • Cool tricks, traveling tips, and activities to enjoy with your dog • Topics with corresponding videos on Zak’s YouTube channel so you can see his advice in action Packed with everything you need to know to raise and care for your dog, this book will help you communicate and bond with one another in a way that makes training easier, more rewarding, and—most of all—fun!
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1607748916
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A revolutionary way to raise and train your dog, with “a wealth of practical tips, tricks, and fun games that will enrich the lives of many dogs and their human companions” (Dr. Ian Dunbar, veterinarian and animal behaviorist). Zak George is a new type of dog trainer. A dynamic YouTube star and Animal Planet personality with a fresh approach, Zak helps you tailor dog training to your pet’s unique traits and energy level—leading to quicker results and a much happier pup. For the first time, Zak has distilled the information from his hundreds of videos and experience with thousands of dogs into this comprehensive dog and puppy training guide that includes: • Choosing the right pup for you • Housetraining and basic training • Handling biting, leash pulling, jumping up, barking, aggression, chewing, and other behavioral issues • Health care essentials like finding a vet and selecting the right food • Cool tricks, traveling tips, and activities to enjoy with your dog • Topics with corresponding videos on Zak’s YouTube channel so you can see his advice in action Packed with everything you need to know to raise and care for your dog, this book will help you communicate and bond with one another in a way that makes training easier, more rewarding, and—most of all—fun!
50 Games to Play with Your Dog
Author: Suellen Dainty
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782403548
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Challenge your Dog! Amaze your friends and family. This fun-filled book is a one-stop guide to keeping your dog fit and young at heart. Whether you own a cerebral hound or a terrier that just wants to be in constant motion, theres a range of games to suit any natural preference. Engaging photographs and step-by-step instructions ensure that learning the games couldnt be simpler. And with useful information on behaviour and training techniques, plus advice on choosing the right games for your breed, 50 Games to Play With Your Dog will make sure you both get the most out of your playtime together.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782403548
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Challenge your Dog! Amaze your friends and family. This fun-filled book is a one-stop guide to keeping your dog fit and young at heart. Whether you own a cerebral hound or a terrier that just wants to be in constant motion, theres a range of games to suit any natural preference. Engaging photographs and step-by-step instructions ensure that learning the games couldnt be simpler. And with useful information on behaviour and training techniques, plus advice on choosing the right games for your breed, 50 Games to Play With Your Dog will make sure you both get the most out of your playtime together.
Eat, Play, Love (Your Dog)
Author: Lara Shannon
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN: 1743586825
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Eat, Play, Love (Your Dog) is the book that every dog owner needs, to provide their dog with the healthiest and happiest life possible. Author Lara Shannon has drawn upon her many years of working (and playing!) with dogs as a certified dog trainer and pet food nutritionist, and through her TV show Pooches at Play. Her book is the essential go-to guide covering everything you need to know about caring for your dog from puppyhood until end of life. Divided into three handy chapters – Eat, Play and Love – Lara tackles all the important subjects, from ensuring your dog gets the right diet it needs to thrive, through to how to successfully address common dog behaviour issues. You’ll also find some healthy D.I.Y dog food and treat recipes, brain games and activities to engage with your dog, advice for choosing the right dog for your lifestyle and guidance on overcoming common anxieties. Eat, Play, Love (Your Dog) will help you to understand why dogs do what they do, and give you the necessary advice to meet the mental and physical needs of your furry friend.
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN: 1743586825
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Eat, Play, Love (Your Dog) is the book that every dog owner needs, to provide their dog with the healthiest and happiest life possible. Author Lara Shannon has drawn upon her many years of working (and playing!) with dogs as a certified dog trainer and pet food nutritionist, and through her TV show Pooches at Play. Her book is the essential go-to guide covering everything you need to know about caring for your dog from puppyhood until end of life. Divided into three handy chapters – Eat, Play and Love – Lara tackles all the important subjects, from ensuring your dog gets the right diet it needs to thrive, through to how to successfully address common dog behaviour issues. You’ll also find some healthy D.I.Y dog food and treat recipes, brain games and activities to engage with your dog, advice for choosing the right dog for your lifestyle and guidance on overcoming common anxieties. Eat, Play, Love (Your Dog) will help you to understand why dogs do what they do, and give you the necessary advice to meet the mental and physical needs of your furry friend.
Playtraining Your Dog
Author: Patricia Gail Burnham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780312616892
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
At last, an inexpensive paperback edition of a book that has been acclaimed as one of the most useful and reliable guides to training your dog. Obedience training does not have to resemble Marine boot camp, with the dog as the recruit and the trainer as the drill instructor. Nor does it have to be work. Rather, as the title of this comprehensive guide suggests, it can be playful fun for both -- with a few rules thrown in to shape the game itno an obedience exercise. Playtraining Your Dog provides an alternative to the violence that conventional training methods inflict on the minds and bodies of dogs. Using widely known, standardized exercises from the American Kennel Club, and written in a clear, informative style, this book contributes to realizing the full potential of both the dog and the dog/owner relationship. Topics covered include: - instructors & training classes - training time - motivation - advice for showing a dog - cues & body language Playtraining Your Dog is an essential addtion to every dog-owner's -- and dog-lover's -- library.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780312616892
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
At last, an inexpensive paperback edition of a book that has been acclaimed as one of the most useful and reliable guides to training your dog. Obedience training does not have to resemble Marine boot camp, with the dog as the recruit and the trainer as the drill instructor. Nor does it have to be work. Rather, as the title of this comprehensive guide suggests, it can be playful fun for both -- with a few rules thrown in to shape the game itno an obedience exercise. Playtraining Your Dog provides an alternative to the violence that conventional training methods inflict on the minds and bodies of dogs. Using widely known, standardized exercises from the American Kennel Club, and written in a clear, informative style, this book contributes to realizing the full potential of both the dog and the dog/owner relationship. Topics covered include: - instructors & training classes - training time - motivation - advice for showing a dog - cues & body language Playtraining Your Dog is an essential addtion to every dog-owner's -- and dog-lover's -- library.
Play Together, Stay Together
Author: Karen B. London
Publisher: Dogwise Publishing
ISBN: 9781891767128
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
How play can enhance your relationship with your dog, improve your dog's responsiveness, and provide your dog with the mental and physical exercise he or she needs -- OCLC.
Publisher: Dogwise Publishing
ISBN: 9781891767128
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
How play can enhance your relationship with your dog, improve your dog's responsiveness, and provide your dog with the mental and physical exercise he or she needs -- OCLC.
Play with Your Dog
Author: Pat Miller
Publisher: Dogwise Publishing
ISBN: 1929242948
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Pat Miller explores the role and benefits of play between you and your dog - and between dogs. Play behaviors have important learning and health benefits that help dogs become well-adjusted members of both their canine and human families. Through play your dog learns dog-to-dog social graces and is mentally and physically stimulated. Play can be a great training tool, helping to build the relationship between you and your dog. And while play comes naturally to most dogs, there are many who need to be encouraged to discover their "inner puppy." Pat includes dozens of game ideas collected from trainers all over the country you can try out with your dog(s).
Publisher: Dogwise Publishing
ISBN: 1929242948
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Pat Miller explores the role and benefits of play between you and your dog - and between dogs. Play behaviors have important learning and health benefits that help dogs become well-adjusted members of both their canine and human families. Through play your dog learns dog-to-dog social graces and is mentally and physically stimulated. Play can be a great training tool, helping to build the relationship between you and your dog. And while play comes naturally to most dogs, there are many who need to be encouraged to discover their "inner puppy." Pat includes dozens of game ideas collected from trainers all over the country you can try out with your dog(s).
The Joy of Playing with Your Dog: Games, Tricks, & Socialization for Puppies & Dogs
Author: Monks of New Skete
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 1682685055
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Game-based learning is a powerful tool to successful puppy rearing and dog ownership.With this exciting guide to playful and social activities for puppies and dogs, you’ll immediately enjoy drastically improved behavior and a stronger connection with your dog. Dogs live to play! It’s hardwired into their DNA. And when approached with intention, play provides the perfect opportunity to support behavioral development, obedience, and develop strong bonds between pup and owner that will last a lifetime. The Joy of Playing with Your Dog guides you through a program of structured play with activities that lead to both better dog-to-dog and dog-to-human relationships. The games, tricks, and socialization techniques are designed specifically for puppies, adult, and even senior dogs. Discover the pleasure of science-based learning as you play our version of Hide and Seek and Red Light Green Light with your dog! Fetch taps into a dog’s prey drive, so he’ll use it in a healthy manner and Speak helps to manage excessive barking. Games like Ping Pong Recall teach your dog to come when called even with distractions. Hyper dogs become calmer with games that teach them how to develop an “off switch.” Teaching tricks like Roll Over and activities that include simple agility training at home will strengthen your bond with your dog. The critical section on socialization—an important skill that’s missing from most dog behavior programs-- teaches you how to successfully introduce and adopt dogs, as well as navigate dog parks. With over 200 cheerful, full-color photos, you’ll have all the inspiration and tools you need to cultivate good behavior with games and enrich the precious shared life between you and your dog.
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 1682685055
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Game-based learning is a powerful tool to successful puppy rearing and dog ownership.With this exciting guide to playful and social activities for puppies and dogs, you’ll immediately enjoy drastically improved behavior and a stronger connection with your dog. Dogs live to play! It’s hardwired into their DNA. And when approached with intention, play provides the perfect opportunity to support behavioral development, obedience, and develop strong bonds between pup and owner that will last a lifetime. The Joy of Playing with Your Dog guides you through a program of structured play with activities that lead to both better dog-to-dog and dog-to-human relationships. The games, tricks, and socialization techniques are designed specifically for puppies, adult, and even senior dogs. Discover the pleasure of science-based learning as you play our version of Hide and Seek and Red Light Green Light with your dog! Fetch taps into a dog’s prey drive, so he’ll use it in a healthy manner and Speak helps to manage excessive barking. Games like Ping Pong Recall teach your dog to come when called even with distractions. Hyper dogs become calmer with games that teach them how to develop an “off switch.” Teaching tricks like Roll Over and activities that include simple agility training at home will strengthen your bond with your dog. The critical section on socialization—an important skill that’s missing from most dog behavior programs-- teaches you how to successfully introduce and adopt dogs, as well as navigate dog parks. With over 200 cheerful, full-color photos, you’ll have all the inspiration and tools you need to cultivate good behavior with games and enrich the precious shared life between you and your dog.
Play Your Way to Good Manners
Author: Kate Naito
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 162187186X
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
• A detailed guide on how to train dogs with cool tricks, exciting sports moves, and interactive games • Draws from techniques used in canine sports and applies them to a positive-reinforcement manners training program • Provides effective strategies for teaching dogs impulse control, obedience, polite leash walking, and good manners around kids and strangers • Written by prominent urban dog training professionals
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 162187186X
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
• A detailed guide on how to train dogs with cool tricks, exciting sports moves, and interactive games • Draws from techniques used in canine sports and applies them to a positive-reinforcement manners training program • Provides effective strategies for teaching dogs impulse control, obedience, polite leash walking, and good manners around kids and strangers • Written by prominent urban dog training professionals
DogPerfect
Author: Sarah Hodgson
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 0470326042
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
The bestselling dog training guide - revised edition Are you at the end of your leash with your dog? Tried everything and nothing seems to work? Don't give up hope-your dog can learn with the simple, proven training methods in this book. DogPerfect has helped thousands of dog owners transform their rowdy canines into well-behaved companions. Now, dog trainer Sarah Hodgson has refined her easy-to-follow, upbeat guide. Up-to-date chapters cover everything you need to know, step by step-from how your dog learns obedience basics to housetraining to dealing with anxiety. Your dog will learn how to Sit, Stay, Settle Down, Come and Heel like the well-mannered companion you want him to be. DogPerfect is a positive, unintimidating guide that can help any dog owner-especially when the pooch in question is less than perfect. You'll discover how to: * Use clicker, target and point training to spice up your lessons * Stop your dog from pulling you down the street * Teach your dog to Sit while greeting company * Play fun and instructional games with your dog * Handle problem barking, chewing, jumping and much more!
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 0470326042
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
The bestselling dog training guide - revised edition Are you at the end of your leash with your dog? Tried everything and nothing seems to work? Don't give up hope-your dog can learn with the simple, proven training methods in this book. DogPerfect has helped thousands of dog owners transform their rowdy canines into well-behaved companions. Now, dog trainer Sarah Hodgson has refined her easy-to-follow, upbeat guide. Up-to-date chapters cover everything you need to know, step by step-from how your dog learns obedience basics to housetraining to dealing with anxiety. Your dog will learn how to Sit, Stay, Settle Down, Come and Heel like the well-mannered companion you want him to be. DogPerfect is a positive, unintimidating guide that can help any dog owner-especially when the pooch in question is less than perfect. You'll discover how to: * Use clicker, target and point training to spice up your lessons * Stop your dog from pulling you down the street * Teach your dog to Sit while greeting company * Play fun and instructional games with your dog * Handle problem barking, chewing, jumping and much more!