A dog-training guide that stresses effective communication and encourages dog owners to respond to their pet with canine manners offers tips on housebreaking, breeds, and more.

Dog Talk: Training Your Dog Through a Canine Point of View

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

ROSS, JOHN

McKinney, Barbara

Pets & Animal Care

St Martins Pr

The only dog-training book that really gets through to the canine brain beneath all that fur. Incorporating the revolutionary teaching of John Ross's prominent dog-training school, this is the first and only dog-training book that truly takes owners inside the canine mind. Central to Ross's technique is the notion that a dog responds to its owner as the pack leader, and that this leader must take the dominant role in the relationship between human and dog. By encouraging owners to act in a canine manner, Ross emphasizes sure-fire techniques to help dogs through the behaviors they need to learn. Among the hundreds of useful training tips included in Dog Talk are: * Always use your dog's name prior to the command: "Bentley, heel!" * When training a puppy, try moving a desired object like a dog biscuit over and behind your dog's head to induce him to "sit." * Do not use your dog's name-- which he associates with being called toward you-- when commanding him to "stay." * Don't yell "Come!" in a threatening manner while chasing after a disobedient puppy or you may well have just trained him to run away on command. * Giving a "No" command while your dog is thinking about a bad behavior is even more effective than giving it during the behavior.

Dog Talk: Training Your Dog Through A Canine Point Of View

St.Martin's Press

No home with a puppy should be without Puppy Preschool. Congratulations! You have (or are thinking seriously of raising) a cute new puppy. He's warm, cuddly, great to hold and pet-- and simply a lot of fun. But watch out! Your adorable ball of fur can be a doggone handful. Given half the chance, he may take it upon himself to eat your furniture, terrorize the kids, dig up the garden, jump on your friends, and eliminate at the most inappropriate times. Let's face it, sometimes what you get raising a puppy can be a "dog's breakfast"-- a mixed bag of happiness and hassle. In order to make it through puppyhood with your sanity still in tact, you need to enroll your pup in Puppy Preschool. Here, in Puppy Preschool, John Ross and Barbara McKinney, the country's foremost dog-training experts, reveal the benefits of early training in this definitive guide devoted exclusively to the trials and triumphs of puppy rearing. Puppy Preschool rewrites the rules on puppy training. While previous training books begin their programs when the puppy has already reached four months of age, Puppy Preschool begins educating and disciplining at just eight weeks old, the time when most puppies are brought into their new homes. Using surefire, revolutionary techniques, Ross and McKinney provide a much-needed head start on good behavior. They offer essential training rules that will be useful throughout your puppy's formative education, including information on: * The right breed for your family or your lifestyle * The ten best breeds for the home * Early leash and collar procedures * Housebreaking * Preventing unwanted chewing * Health and grooming tips * Emergency care * Essential puppy-training equipment and safe, fun toys * A breakdown of puppy development from birth to eighteen months * The best ways for small children to interact with puppies dn0 Based on the same training philosophy presented in their classic book, Dog Talk, of raising your dog from a "canine point of view," Ross and McKinney give easy-to-follow training techniques that will make puppy rearing a great experience for everyone involved.

Puppy Preschool: Raising Your Puppy Right---Right from the Start!

In more than two decades of experience dealing with dog owners and their pets, and after receiving hundreds of letters to their newspaper column, "Dog Talk," expert dog trainers John Ross and Barbara McKinney have heard it all! In Why Does My Dog Drink Out of the Toilet? they offer up the solutions to these and dozens of other inquiries about the baffling, worrisome, or sometimes just plain frustrating behaviors of everyone's best friend. Ross and McKinney address everything from the most commonly asked questions culled from their column to the seemingly more obscure problems, including advice and information on buying a new puppy, destructive chewing, housebreaking difficulties, finding the right breeder or dog trainer, obedience classes, health and grooming topics and much, much, more!

Why Does My Dog Drink Out of the Toilet: Answers and Advice for All Kinds of Dog Dilemmas

John Ross and Barbara McKinney, the country’s foremost dog-training experts, reveal the lifelong benefits of early training in this definitive guide devoted exclusively to the trials and triumphs of puppy rearing. Puppy Preschool rewrites the rules on raising a great dog. Whereas other training books begin their programs when the puppy has already reached four months of age or more, Puppy Preschool begins educating and shaping behavior right from the time the puppy is brought into your home. Using revolutionary but positive and loving techniques that may surprise you, Ross and McKinney provide a much-needed head start on good behavior. They offer essential training rules that will be useful throughout your puppy’s formative education, including information on: * Early leash and collar procedures * Housebreaking * Preventing unwanted chewing, barking, and biting * Health and grooming tips * Essential puppy-training equipment and safe, fun toys * The best ways for small children to interact with puppies
 Puppy Preschool is the only book you will need to get you and your new puppy started on a great life together.

Puppy Preschool, Revised Edition: Raising Your Puppy Right---Right from the Start!

St. Martin's: Griffin

A guide to the special needs of pre-owned dogs shares advice for dogs of all ages and with a range of training needs, discussing how to choose a dog that is compatible with a home, how to introduce a dog to family members and other pets, and overcoming a history of abuse. 35,000 first printing.

Adoptable Dog: Teaching Your Adopted Pet to Obey, Trust, and Love You

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

At last, an indispensable guide to the unique needs of the 2.5 million dogs adopted every year in America.
Unbelievably, there has never been a comprehensive training-and-care guide written for the adopted or "pre-owned" dog. Manuals abound for the puppy, even for the adult or mature dog, but Adopting a Dog has established itself as the standard work for this exploding population. John Ross and Barbara McKinney provide invaluable advice for every kind of adoptable dog: the older puppy, the overactive or unhousebroken adult dog, the shelter pooch, or even the mature canine in need of one last, loving home. As previous dog owners know, great intentions are not enough to make your new pet a well-loved, well-behaved part of your family. Your enthusiasm after rescuing a homeless dog can quickly turn sour when problems appear. After all, it's not unusual for adopted dogs to bring all sorts of behavioral baggage with them. In fact, their behavioral problems may have been the reason they were given up in the first place. Here, in one comprehensive volume, you will find an abundance of commonsense, canine advice―everything to make your dog adoption an unqualified success. Adopting a Dog covers common problems and provides realistic, effective solutions to:
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<li>determining which dog is right for which home</li>
<li>finding reputable breed associations, rescue organizations, and shelters</li>
<li>helping your dog get along with kids and older adults, as well as with other pets</li>
<li>retraining approaches for curing obsessive barking, separation anxiety, housebreaking problems, and fear biting</li>
<li>overcoming the scars of previous abuse.</li>
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At the heart of Adopting a Dog is a pet-focused training program. In an easy-to-use, step-by-step style, Ross and McKinney show you how to overcome training challenges that are common to so many adopted dogs. You can teach your dog to behave, whether he is unruly on the leash, jumps all over guests, steals dessert, grabs the kids' toys, or struggles during a much-needed bath. Adopting a Dog is sure to be a standard reference work for any dog owner's home. Originally published in hardcover under the title The Adoptable Dog. 45 illustrations

Adopting a Dog: The Indispensable Guide for Your Newest Family Member

W.W.Norton&Company

This book is a year-after-year favorite with teachers. It engagingly leads readers around the world following a drop of water--whether as steam or snow, inside a plant or animal, or underground--teaching the wonders and importance of the water cycle. (There is lots of geography, too.) Four pages of science about the qualities of water are included. A teacher guide is also available (sold separately).

A Drop Around the World

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