Animal Training

Is your journey with your reactive dog filled with love, stress, and confusion? Transform it into a rewarding bond, even if you've tried everything and found little success. Discover a comprehensive guide filled with tested strategies to transform your life with a reactive dog.

This book explores the fascinating science of operant conditioning, where science and dog training meet. How Dogs Learn discusses the basic principles of behavior and how they can be used to teach your dog new skills, diagnose problems, and eliminate unwanted behaviors. It's for anyone who wants to better understand the learning process in dogs. Every concept is laid out clearly and precisely, and its relevance to your dog and how you train is explained.

The truth is that your dog is communicating with you all the time, but unless you know the signs, you aren't picking up on what your dog wants you to know. Louise Glazebrook is a dog behaviourist, trainer and television presenter who specialises in teaching people how to understand and connect with their dogs. In The Book Your Dog Wishes You Would Read, Louise tackles everything from bringing the right dog home, understanding body language and breed behaviour, responding to common behavioural issues, to the toys and games that you and your dog will both love.

His best friend's been kidnapped. He could be next. Only magic can save them, but who will train him? BMC Jasmine has lost too many loved ones on his watch. Now he's on a mission to grow his CatCast followers and save the world from humans' violent drama. But when his methods anger the lottery commission and attract an unsavory crowd, his human revokes his podcasting privilege, threatening his life's work. While an enraged BMC passionately argues his case, intruders infiltrate his home and snatch his best pal. Desperate to save his friend, he throws a magical spell. Except it explodes and ...

Barking Up the Right Tree offers proof that aversive punishment seldom works to eliminate undesirable behavior or to get the dog back on track. Dunbar presents numerous nonaversive yet highly effective solutions for misbehavior and noncompliance—simply by using the words you teach, and without even raising your voice.

How To Train Your Dog with Love + Science presents a modern and science-based approach to dog training, showing how behavior can be changed without coercion and force. Annie Grossman, a journalist-turned-dog trainer, breaks down what positive reinforcement actually is and makes the case that "good dog training" may even be a window into understanding ourselves.

Follow Jane and Windsong in their Pursuit of Excellence Ribbons and Trophies are sure signs of success, but they come at a price! Jane Mitchell has ridden her difficult, high-strung horse, Windsong, for nearly a year with a single goal in mind: Make the North American Junior team. After she secures a spot on the team, she realizes that her biggest test will not be in the show arena. Does she have what it takes to keep up with her ruthless, seasoned teammates, to make it to the Championships, and to compete with the best young talent in the nation?The North American Junior Team is composed ...

Book two of the series. Bella was lost, well, actually discarded as a puppy due to the fact that she was a runt. Found by Harry, a Boston PD officer who had lost his K9 Kato. Together they train and Bella becomes a full K9 cop. Now, to follow her next chapter in life. Searching for lost children seems to be Bella's best asset.

Service Dog Success: Training Methods for Exceptional Canine Companions is your ultimate step-by-step guide to selecting, training, and mastering the skills needed for a top-tier service dog. Whether you're a first-time service dog owner, a professional trainer, or someone looking to train your own service dog, this book provides proven, easy-to-follow training techniques that ensure success.

Top Selling Equestrian Novel for Teens and Women Everywhere! Find out why readers are saying they can't put this novel down Seventeen-year-old Jane has found the horse of her dreams or so she thinks. Windsong has the breeding, training, and flashy good looks to win medals at national competitions, and Jane figures she’ll point him down the centerline and waltz out of the arena with enough blue ribbons to overflow her tack trunk. He is a tall, black, imported Swedish Warmblood trained to the Grand Prix level, the epitome of elegance and grace whenever he is not carrying on like a fire-...

One for sorrow, two for spice triggers a game of three blind mice. While vacationing in New England, PI Jax Diamond and his courageous canine partner, Ace, bite off more than they can chew when two small-town deaths reveal two big-time killers, and the locals don’t take too kindly to strangers. Laura Graystone, Broadway star, auto expert, and Jax’s heartthrob, is once again front and center digging for clues while trying to ditch an old boyfriend. That is, until her brother becomes Jax’s prime suspect. Then all hell breaks loose, and Ace is left in the lurch, tracking down leads with ...

Thirty thousand years ago, ice was storming the planet. Among the species forced out of the trees and onto the steppes by the advancing cold was modern man, who was both predator and prey. No stranger to the experiences that make us human - a mother's love and a father's betrayal, tribal war and increasing famine, political intrigue and forbidden love, joy and hope and devastating loss - our ancestors competed for scant resources in a brutal landscape.

Living with a Springer Spaniel: Pete and Me is a humorous and loving tribute to a loyal, smart, and adorable pup who mastered the technique of training his owner. Springer spaniels are known for their hunting prowess, agility, and obedience. They are affectionate, expressive, and eager to please. Springers make a great family companion because of their steadfast devotion, but they can have a mind of their own. Living with a Springer Spaniel: Pete and Me is a compilation of stories and anecdotes about Pete from the time he was a puppy until he went to doggie heaven. You’ll laugh at ...

In their New York Times best-selling book The Genius of Dogs, husband-and-wife team Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods lay out landmark discoveries from the Duke Canine Cognition Center and other research facilities around the world to reveal how your dog thinks and how we humans can have even deeper relationships with our best four-legged friends.

Regardless of where you look these days you'll find business using Artificial Intelligence in their business. As a dog breeding company you should too! Read and learn through this extensive guide and see exactly how you can use AI to your advantage in your business.

In engaging chapters filled with empathy for both the beleaguered humans and their confused puppies, Welcoming Your Puppy from Planet Dog paves the way for a rewarding friendship between a relaxed, well-prepared human and a canine family member who's happily at ease in our world.

Before and After Getting Your Puppy is a simple, practical guide for anyone bringing a new puppy into the family. In clear steps, with easy-to-follow training deadlines, Dr. Ian Dunbar, who pioneered puppy classes and a loving style of dog training in the 1970s, presents a structured yet playful and humorous plan for raising a wonderful dog.

A fun humoured book about a Cats social position in the household. Ever wondered why your cat stares at you with an air of regal indifference? Or why they demand to be fed at precisely 5:43 AM every morning? Dive into the hilarious and insightful world of feline politics with "Claws and Order: A Cat's Social Position in the Home. Embrace the feline philosophy and join the ranks of enlightened cat owners who know that in the grand scheme of things, the cat is always in charge.

A poet often writes about the world around him/her or the world within. This is where the inspiration comes from, where his/her perspective and imagination are colored. When a dog or two, (or three or four), enters a poet’s life, either by choice or by accident, they tend to sneak into the poet’s poems, either as the subject or part of the landscape of the poem, like a bark in the distance or a low howl at your feet begging for a bone. For Ronald j Palmer, these are those poems. Dogged is a tender celebration of the bond between human and dog, an elegant lament to nature, time, and ...

Discover the joy of a harmonious pet relationship and bring out the best in your reactive dog, even if past attempts have failed! Do sudden outbursts and relentless barking leave you feeling helpless? Are the stares and judgment from others when your dog overreacts becoming too much to handle? Do you long for a peaceful, mutual understanding with your dog that seems just out of reach? You're not alone! Many dog owners like you face these overwhelming challenges daily.