Author: Ted Efthymiadis
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781723536601
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
If you've struggled with training your dog off leash, you need to know that some dogs are a real pain to train with traditional tools and methodologies. E-collar training for pet dogs is a book that will guide you as you train your dog with the aid of an electric collar. Your dog can be trained to come to you every time and it can be done humanely. Bonus online access to our e-collar training video series E-collar 101! Here are some of the topics that this book dives into: * Choosing the best e-collar for your dog * Properly fitting your e-collar * E-collar foundation training * Using food and treats in combination with the e-collar * 100% recall * Perimeter training your property with your e-collar * Ensuring that you are always using the right level * Working with distractions * Using tone and vibrate for recall * Using food/treats/praise with your e-collar * Weaning off the e-collar While many e-collars have 100 levels of stimulation available to them, this book focuses on the only three levels that matter; Not enough, just right and too high. You'll also find the frequently asked questions section to be a game changer for your dog. * Will my dog get collar smart? * How long will my dog need to wear the e-collar? * How do I transition off of the e-collar? * How do I use an e-collar if my dog has already worn a bark collar or perimeter fence collar before? * Stealing food from the counter * Dogs eating poop * Jumping up on people * Pulling on the leash * Working with two dogs at the same time * Predatory chasing * How far should my dog range away from me? CAUTION: This book does NOT cover, training basic obedience commands with your dog. This book focuses on training your dog to come when called and to STOP many of their bad behaviors. Also, note that this book is NOT a book that teaches only positive methods. This book outlined a balanced training philosophy. Learn from my 10,000+ hours of experience training dogs with e-collar. Go ahead and purchase the book today!
E-Collar Training for Pet Dogs
Author: Ted Efthymiadis
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781723536601
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
If you've struggled with training your dog off leash, you need to know that some dogs are a real pain to train with traditional tools and methodologies. E-collar training for pet dogs is a book that will guide you as you train your dog with the aid of an electric collar. Your dog can be trained to come to you every time and it can be done humanely. Bonus online access to our e-collar training video series E-collar 101! Here are some of the topics that this book dives into: * Choosing the best e-collar for your dog * Properly fitting your e-collar * E-collar foundation training * Using food and treats in combination with the e-collar * 100% recall * Perimeter training your property with your e-collar * Ensuring that you are always using the right level * Working with distractions * Using tone and vibrate for recall * Using food/treats/praise with your e-collar * Weaning off the e-collar While many e-collars have 100 levels of stimulation available to them, this book focuses on the only three levels that matter; Not enough, just right and too high. You'll also find the frequently asked questions section to be a game changer for your dog. * Will my dog get collar smart? * How long will my dog need to wear the e-collar? * How do I transition off of the e-collar? * How do I use an e-collar if my dog has already worn a bark collar or perimeter fence collar before? * Stealing food from the counter * Dogs eating poop * Jumping up on people * Pulling on the leash * Working with two dogs at the same time * Predatory chasing * How far should my dog range away from me? CAUTION: This book does NOT cover, training basic obedience commands with your dog. This book focuses on training your dog to come when called and to STOP many of their bad behaviors. Also, note that this book is NOT a book that teaches only positive methods. This book outlined a balanced training philosophy. Learn from my 10,000+ hours of experience training dogs with e-collar. Go ahead and purchase the book today!
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781723536601
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
If you've struggled with training your dog off leash, you need to know that some dogs are a real pain to train with traditional tools and methodologies. E-collar training for pet dogs is a book that will guide you as you train your dog with the aid of an electric collar. Your dog can be trained to come to you every time and it can be done humanely. Bonus online access to our e-collar training video series E-collar 101! Here are some of the topics that this book dives into: * Choosing the best e-collar for your dog * Properly fitting your e-collar * E-collar foundation training * Using food and treats in combination with the e-collar * 100% recall * Perimeter training your property with your e-collar * Ensuring that you are always using the right level * Working with distractions * Using tone and vibrate for recall * Using food/treats/praise with your e-collar * Weaning off the e-collar While many e-collars have 100 levels of stimulation available to them, this book focuses on the only three levels that matter; Not enough, just right and too high. You'll also find the frequently asked questions section to be a game changer for your dog. * Will my dog get collar smart? * How long will my dog need to wear the e-collar? * How do I transition off of the e-collar? * How do I use an e-collar if my dog has already worn a bark collar or perimeter fence collar before? * Stealing food from the counter * Dogs eating poop * Jumping up on people * Pulling on the leash * Working with two dogs at the same time * Predatory chasing * How far should my dog range away from me? CAUTION: This book does NOT cover, training basic obedience commands with your dog. This book focuses on training your dog to come when called and to STOP many of their bad behaviors. Also, note that this book is NOT a book that teaches only positive methods. This book outlined a balanced training philosophy. Learn from my 10,000+ hours of experience training dogs with e-collar. Go ahead and purchase the book today!
Navy SEAL Dogs
Author: Mike Ritland
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466840234
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Before there was Max, there was Mike. A true story much like the touching movie, Navy SEAL Dogs explores the incomparable relationship between trainer and military dog. From the author of Team Dog, Trident K9 Warriors gave readers an inside look at the Navy SEAL teams' elite K9 warriors-who they are, how they are trained, and the extreme missions they undertake to save lives. From detecting explosives to eliminating the bad guys, these powerful dogs are also some of the smartest and highest skilled working animals on the planet. Mike Ritland's job is to train them. This special edition re-telling presents the dramatic tale of how Ritland discovered his passion and grew up to become the trainer of the nation's most elite military working dogs. Ritland was a smaller-than-average kid who was often picked-on at school-which led him to spend more time with dogs at a young age. After graduating BUD/S training-the toughest military training in the world-to become a SEAL, he was on combat deployment in Iraq when he saw a military working dog in action and instantly knew he'd found his true calling. Ritland started his own company to train and supply working and protection dogs for the U.S. Government, Department of Defense, and other clients. He also started the Warrior Dog Foundation to help retired Special Operations dogs live long and happy lives after their service. Navy SEAL Dogs is the true story of how Mike Ritland grew from a skinny, bullied child, to a member of our nation's most elite SEAL Teams, to the trainer of the world's most highly skilled K9 warriors.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466840234
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Before there was Max, there was Mike. A true story much like the touching movie, Navy SEAL Dogs explores the incomparable relationship between trainer and military dog. From the author of Team Dog, Trident K9 Warriors gave readers an inside look at the Navy SEAL teams' elite K9 warriors-who they are, how they are trained, and the extreme missions they undertake to save lives. From detecting explosives to eliminating the bad guys, these powerful dogs are also some of the smartest and highest skilled working animals on the planet. Mike Ritland's job is to train them. This special edition re-telling presents the dramatic tale of how Ritland discovered his passion and grew up to become the trainer of the nation's most elite military working dogs. Ritland was a smaller-than-average kid who was often picked-on at school-which led him to spend more time with dogs at a young age. After graduating BUD/S training-the toughest military training in the world-to become a SEAL, he was on combat deployment in Iraq when he saw a military working dog in action and instantly knew he'd found his true calling. Ritland started his own company to train and supply working and protection dogs for the U.S. Government, Department of Defense, and other clients. He also started the Warrior Dog Foundation to help retired Special Operations dogs live long and happy lives after their service. Navy SEAL Dogs is the true story of how Mike Ritland grew from a skinny, bullied child, to a member of our nation's most elite SEAL Teams, to the trainer of the world's most highly skilled K9 warriors.
Full Focus Planner - Grey 4.0
Author: Michael Hyatt & Co
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732189690
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732189690
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Easy Dog Training
Author: Fernando Camacho
Publisher: Rockridge Press
ISBN: 9781646115044
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Turn man’s best friend into man’s best behaved friend Whether you’re single or a family of 10, dogs can make a house a home by providing comfort, entertainment, and companionship. Unfortunately, they can also run amok if not properly trained. In Easy Dog Training, you’ll be introduced to the core aspects of dog training so you can build a positive relationship with your lovable pooch. From getting the proper training equipment and general toys to dog-proofing your home, this reference guide covers puppies, adults, and rescue dogs. Discover the best ways to potty, leash, and social train, as well as the five essential commands: sit, down, stay, come, and wait. Easy Dog Training includes: Good boy!—Each of the dog training methods offers positive reinforcement as its approach. All dogs welcome—This book works for any type of dog breed at any age. Helpful reminders—Each chapter ends with a recap section to help you reinforce best dog training practices. Watch as your pooch becomes the best trained dog in the neighborhood with Easy Dog Training.
Publisher: Rockridge Press
ISBN: 9781646115044
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Turn man’s best friend into man’s best behaved friend Whether you’re single or a family of 10, dogs can make a house a home by providing comfort, entertainment, and companionship. Unfortunately, they can also run amok if not properly trained. In Easy Dog Training, you’ll be introduced to the core aspects of dog training so you can build a positive relationship with your lovable pooch. From getting the proper training equipment and general toys to dog-proofing your home, this reference guide covers puppies, adults, and rescue dogs. Discover the best ways to potty, leash, and social train, as well as the five essential commands: sit, down, stay, come, and wait. Easy Dog Training includes: Good boy!—Each of the dog training methods offers positive reinforcement as its approach. All dogs welcome—This book works for any type of dog breed at any age. Helpful reminders—Each chapter ends with a recap section to help you reinforce best dog training practices. Watch as your pooch becomes the best trained dog in the neighborhood with Easy Dog Training.
Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Author: Richard Rumelt
Publisher: Currency
ISBN: 0307886239
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.
Publisher: Currency
ISBN: 0307886239
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.
Coaching Agile Teams
Author: Lyssa Adkins
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN: 0321660358
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 523
Book Description
The Provocative and Practical Guide to Coaching Agile Teams As an agile coach, you can help project teams become outstanding at agile, creating products that make them proud and helping organizations reap the powerful benefits of teams that deliver both innovation and excellence. More and more frequently, ScrumMasters and project managers are being asked to coach agile teams. But it’s a challenging role. It requires new skills—as well as a subtle understanding of when to step in and when to step back. Migrating from “command and control” to agile coaching requires a whole new mind-set. In Coaching Agile Teams, Lyssa Adkins gives agile coaches the insights they need to adopt this new mind-set and to guide teams to extraordinary performance in a re-energized work environment. You’ll gain a deep view into the role of the agile coach, discover what works and what doesn’t, and learn how to adapt powerful skills from many allied disciplines, including the fields of professional coaching and mentoring. Coverage includes Understanding what it takes to be a great agile coach Mastering all of the agile coach’s roles: teacher, mentor, problem solver, conflict navigator, and performance coach Creating an environment where self-organized, high-performance teams can emerge Coaching teams past cooperation and into full collaboration Evolving your leadership style as your team grows and changes Staying actively engaged without dominating your team and stunting its growth Recognizing failure, recovery, and success modes in your coaching Getting the most out of your own personal agile coaching journey Whether you’re an agile coach, leader, trainer, mentor, facilitator, ScrumMaster, project manager, product owner, or team member, this book will help you become skilled at helping others become truly great. What could possibly be more rewarding?
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN: 0321660358
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 523
Book Description
The Provocative and Practical Guide to Coaching Agile Teams As an agile coach, you can help project teams become outstanding at agile, creating products that make them proud and helping organizations reap the powerful benefits of teams that deliver both innovation and excellence. More and more frequently, ScrumMasters and project managers are being asked to coach agile teams. But it’s a challenging role. It requires new skills—as well as a subtle understanding of when to step in and when to step back. Migrating from “command and control” to agile coaching requires a whole new mind-set. In Coaching Agile Teams, Lyssa Adkins gives agile coaches the insights they need to adopt this new mind-set and to guide teams to extraordinary performance in a re-energized work environment. You’ll gain a deep view into the role of the agile coach, discover what works and what doesn’t, and learn how to adapt powerful skills from many allied disciplines, including the fields of professional coaching and mentoring. Coverage includes Understanding what it takes to be a great agile coach Mastering all of the agile coach’s roles: teacher, mentor, problem solver, conflict navigator, and performance coach Creating an environment where self-organized, high-performance teams can emerge Coaching teams past cooperation and into full collaboration Evolving your leadership style as your team grows and changes Staying actively engaged without dominating your team and stunting its growth Recognizing failure, recovery, and success modes in your coaching Getting the most out of your own personal agile coaching journey Whether you’re an agile coach, leader, trainer, mentor, facilitator, ScrumMaster, project manager, product owner, or team member, this book will help you become skilled at helping others become truly great. What could possibly be more rewarding?
Pit Bull Flower Power
Author: Sophie Gamand
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781590565827
Category : Photography of dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
For decades, pit bulls have been demonized by society and portrayed as hellhounds. They've become the most feared, hated, and abused of all companion animals. Some cities and even entire countries ban them, while the media persist in associating them with viciousness. This unjust reputation has sealed the fate of millions of dogs, who face prejudice around the world and languish in shelters, where they are the most euthanized. In America alone, hundreds of thousands of pit bulls are put to sleep every year. Since 2014, French photographer Sophie Gamand has been composing portraits of adoptable pit bulls from more than thirty shelters and rescues throughout the United States. Many had been waiting for years for a home. Adorning her models with handmade flower-crowns, Gamand tells each dog's story and celebrates their inherent personality, vulnerability, and individuality. Posted and shared widely on social media, the portraits--at once charming, candid, and deeply affecting--have not only led to hundreds of dogs finding loving, forever homes, but have also spurred efforts to destigmatize an animal whose reputation for violence says more about us than it does the character of the dogs themselves. Full of moving, honest, and inspiring stories of individual dogs and their lives (and deaths), Pit Bull Flower Power presents a vivid, beautifully composed cross-section of Gamand's extraordinary work. The book also serves as a testament to the caring people who work in animal rescue, the passion and dedication of those who provide homes for these animals, and the dignity, forbearance, and love of these dogs, who are at the mercy of humans.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781590565827
Category : Photography of dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
For decades, pit bulls have been demonized by society and portrayed as hellhounds. They've become the most feared, hated, and abused of all companion animals. Some cities and even entire countries ban them, while the media persist in associating them with viciousness. This unjust reputation has sealed the fate of millions of dogs, who face prejudice around the world and languish in shelters, where they are the most euthanized. In America alone, hundreds of thousands of pit bulls are put to sleep every year. Since 2014, French photographer Sophie Gamand has been composing portraits of adoptable pit bulls from more than thirty shelters and rescues throughout the United States. Many had been waiting for years for a home. Adorning her models with handmade flower-crowns, Gamand tells each dog's story and celebrates their inherent personality, vulnerability, and individuality. Posted and shared widely on social media, the portraits--at once charming, candid, and deeply affecting--have not only led to hundreds of dogs finding loving, forever homes, but have also spurred efforts to destigmatize an animal whose reputation for violence says more about us than it does the character of the dogs themselves. Full of moving, honest, and inspiring stories of individual dogs and their lives (and deaths), Pit Bull Flower Power presents a vivid, beautifully composed cross-section of Gamand's extraordinary work. The book also serves as a testament to the caring people who work in animal rescue, the passion and dedication of those who provide homes for these animals, and the dignity, forbearance, and love of these dogs, who are at the mercy of humans.
Underwater Foraging - Freediving for Food
Author: Ian Donald
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781484904596
Category : Marine organisms
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this full colour, large format publication by master freediving instructor and expert marine forager Ian Donald, you will be taught in a step-by-step manner how to freedive, forage for marine foods, and spearfish, all with sustainability in mind.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781484904596
Category : Marine organisms
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this full colour, large format publication by master freediving instructor and expert marine forager Ian Donald, you will be taught in a step-by-step manner how to freedive, forage for marine foods, and spearfish, all with sustainability in mind.
The Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Globetrotter
Author: Christian Graugart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781479104529
Category : Jiu-jitsu
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"I didn't care about what would happen. He might win the match, but he could never beat me. I was living my dream, traveling the world with complete freedom. Nothing could put me down. The play button was pressed again. My opponent took my back and I tapped to a bow and arrow choke. I laughed and shook his hand, as I stood back up. I was out of the competition. Everything was perfect. Life couldn't be better." After a training partner commits suicide, Christian Graugart feels obliged to do something with his life. Starting his own gym, dedicating almost all his time to the art of BJJ, alters everything, including the way he sees himself. The Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Globetrotter is not only a story about traveling and training in martial arts. It's about all the things that can happen to you if you choose to truly stay alive until you actually die.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781479104529
Category : Jiu-jitsu
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"I didn't care about what would happen. He might win the match, but he could never beat me. I was living my dream, traveling the world with complete freedom. Nothing could put me down. The play button was pressed again. My opponent took my back and I tapped to a bow and arrow choke. I laughed and shook his hand, as I stood back up. I was out of the competition. Everything was perfect. Life couldn't be better." After a training partner commits suicide, Christian Graugart feels obliged to do something with his life. Starting his own gym, dedicating almost all his time to the art of BJJ, alters everything, including the way he sees himself. The Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Globetrotter is not only a story about traveling and training in martial arts. It's about all the things that can happen to you if you choose to truly stay alive until you actually die.
The Forever Dog
Author: Rodney Habib
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780063002616
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
#1 New York Times Bestseller In this pathbreaking guide, two of the world's most popular and trusted pet care advocates reveal new science to teach us how to delay aging and provide a long, happy, healthy life for our canine companions. Like their human counterparts, dogs have been getting sicker and dying prematurely over the past few decades. Why? Scientists are beginning to understand that the chronic diseases afflicting humans--cancer, obesity, diabetes, organ degeneration, and autoimmune disorders--also beset canines. As a result, our beloved companions are vexed with preventable health problems throughout much of their lives and suffer shorter life spans. Because our pets can't make health and lifestyle decisions for themselves, it's up to pet parents to make smart, science-backed choices for lasting vitality and health. The Forever Dog gives us the practical, proven tools to protect our loyal four-legged companions. Rodney Habib and Karen Becker, DVM, globetrotted (pre-pandemic) to galvanize the best wisdom from top geneticists, microbiologists, and longevity researchers; they also interviewed people whose dogs have lived into their 20s and even 30s. The result is this unprecedented and comprehensive guide, filled with surprising information, invaluable advice, and inspiring stories about dogs and the people who love them. The Forever Dog prescriptive plan focuses on diet and nutrition, movement, environmental exposures, and stress reduction, and can be tailored to the genetic predisposition of particular breeds or mixes. The authors discuss various types of food--including what the commercial manufacturers don't want us to know--and offer recipes, easy solutions, and tips for making sure our dogs obtain the nutrients they need. Habib and Dr. Becker also explore how external factors we often don't think about can greatly affect a dog's overall health and wellbeing, from everyday insults to the body and its physiology, to the role our own lifestyles and our vets' choices play. Indeed, the health equation works both ways and can travel "up the leash." Medical breakthroughs have expanded our choices for canine health--if you know what they are. This definitive dog-care guide empowers us with the knowledge we need to make wise choices, and to keep our dogs healthy and happy for years to come.
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780063002616
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
#1 New York Times Bestseller In this pathbreaking guide, two of the world's most popular and trusted pet care advocates reveal new science to teach us how to delay aging and provide a long, happy, healthy life for our canine companions. Like their human counterparts, dogs have been getting sicker and dying prematurely over the past few decades. Why? Scientists are beginning to understand that the chronic diseases afflicting humans--cancer, obesity, diabetes, organ degeneration, and autoimmune disorders--also beset canines. As a result, our beloved companions are vexed with preventable health problems throughout much of their lives and suffer shorter life spans. Because our pets can't make health and lifestyle decisions for themselves, it's up to pet parents to make smart, science-backed choices for lasting vitality and health. The Forever Dog gives us the practical, proven tools to protect our loyal four-legged companions. Rodney Habib and Karen Becker, DVM, globetrotted (pre-pandemic) to galvanize the best wisdom from top geneticists, microbiologists, and longevity researchers; they also interviewed people whose dogs have lived into their 20s and even 30s. The result is this unprecedented and comprehensive guide, filled with surprising information, invaluable advice, and inspiring stories about dogs and the people who love them. The Forever Dog prescriptive plan focuses on diet and nutrition, movement, environmental exposures, and stress reduction, and can be tailored to the genetic predisposition of particular breeds or mixes. The authors discuss various types of food--including what the commercial manufacturers don't want us to know--and offer recipes, easy solutions, and tips for making sure our dogs obtain the nutrients they need. Habib and Dr. Becker also explore how external factors we often don't think about can greatly affect a dog's overall health and wellbeing, from everyday insults to the body and its physiology, to the role our own lifestyles and our vets' choices play. Indeed, the health equation works both ways and can travel "up the leash." Medical breakthroughs have expanded our choices for canine health--if you know what they are. This definitive dog-care guide empowers us with the knowledge we need to make wise choices, and to keep our dogs healthy and happy for years to come.