Positive perspectives 2 Know your dog, train your dog
Book - 2008
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- Published
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Wenatchee, Wash. :
Dogwise Pub
2008.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- Sequel to: Positive perspectives: love your dog, train your dog.
- Physical Description
- ix, 283 pages : illustrations
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781929242504
- Acknowledgements
- Cast of Characters
- Introduction
- Part 1. Reading Your Dog
- Fluent in Body Language: How to avoid inadvertent miscommunication with your dog
- Say What?: Learn to understand and recognize your dog's body language
- I Submit!: These canine gestures are intended to do more than just "calm" others
- Stress Signals: Learn to recognize signs of your dog's stress
- Part 2. Advanced Training and Behavior Concepts
- The Crossover Challenge: Understand your dog's behavior as you switch to positive training
- Theory and Practice: Every new dog requires individual training and management
- Be a Benevolent Leader: Why you shouldn't worry about being "dominant" to your dog pack
- Biscuits, Not Rolls: Why you should never use the "Alpha Roll"
- Your Pet's Pet Peeves: Five ways you annoy and confuse your dog
- Fun and Games: Build your relationship, solidify your dog's obedience, and have a blast
- Now You See It: How to "fade" the prompts and lures you use to cue your dog's behavior
- The Bowl Game: How and why to use your dog's food bowl to your advantage
- Monkey See, Monkey Do?: Young or less experienced dogs can learn a lot from well-behaved dogs
- The Shape of Things to Come: This fun training technique can be used to teach your dog anything
- Part 3. Teaching Behaviors
- Higher Education: Training shouldn't stop at "Sit"-there is so much more your dog can do
- Look At Me!: Paying attention to you is a vital skill for your dog (and easy to learn)
- Greetings and Salutations: The process of teaching your dog to greet people calmly starts at home
- Come Hither: A dependable recall provides off-leash freedom and safety
- Tug It!: This game can cause trouble if it's not well directed-but it can also teach your dog a number of important skills
- Making Scents: You can teach your dog how to use his nose for your benefit
- Mind Games: Occupy your dog's brain to get through periods of restricted activity
- Size Matters: Secrets to training your small dog
- Super-Sized: Keeping and training extra-large dogs can be a big challenge
- Part 4. Problem Behaviors
- Crazy Owner, Crazy Dog?: Not necessarily-inconsistency is the decider
- Is Your Dog Spoiled?: Living comfortably doesn't count; being demanding and pushy does
- The Social Scene: Dogs who are comfortable in public are born, not made
- Crate Difficulties: Helping more dogs find contentment in the close quarters of a crate
- Hyper Hounds: Identifying and (more importantly) dealing with overactive dogs
- Touch Me, Touch Me Not: This program will make your dog safer to live with and easier to examine
- When a Voice is a Vice: How to prevent (or at least manage) your dog's nuisance barking
- They Need to Gnaw: But you can direct the behavior to appropriate chew toys
- Can You Dig It?: A natural behavior need not render your lawn a moonscape
- Your Dog Eats...WHAT?!: Stop them when the behavior risks their health
- Good Fences Make Better Dogs: Put a stop to fence-running, fence-fighting, and barking
- Preventing Great Escapes: How to safely confine burrowers and bolters
- Monster Appliances: Vroom! Whirl! Roar! Desensitize your dog to those noisy appliances
- Permanent Markers: How to change the ways of a dog who urine-marks in the house
- Mounting Block: An embarrassing behavior? Yes, but it can be stopped
- The Behavior Formerly Known as Begging: Redefine it as attention to food and use it to your advantage
- Part 5. Aggression
- Bite-Me-Not: One of the most important things a puppy needs to learn: bite inhibition
- The Gift of Growling: Why you should never punish a dog for growling
- Bully for You: Why (and how) you should intervene if your dog picks on others
- Let Us Prey: Few people want their dogs to act on their inherited predatory drives
- Rage Without Reason: Idiopathic aggression is (thankfully) quite rare, but also quite dangerous
- How to Save Yourself: In case of a dog-attack emergency, make like a rock or a tree
- An Accident Waiting to Happen: What you should do if you have a run-in with a dangerous dog
- Fight!: Ritual display or real deal? Counter-conditioning can avoid fierce dog fights
- Nuclear Reactors: Dealing with dogs who "go off" or "lose it" in certain circumstances
- Reform School: The latest developments in remedial classes for reactive dogs
- Resources
- Index
- Author Biography