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NEW 2ND EDITION! Demonstrates how you can train your dog, have fun, and build a lasting relationship at the same time. Walk away from punishment-based training methods and learn how you can reward your dog to obtain and reinforce the behaviours you could only dream about achieving. When you apply the training methods in this book and follow the unique six-week training program, your dog will learn to think and to choose proper behaviour. You and your dog can become an unbeatable team, capable of addressing any challenge you may encounter.

One of the biggest obstacles the new clicker trainer faces is his or her own history of training and habits of working with a dog. But you can make the transition once you understand how dogs learn and the mechanisms of operant conditioning. Learn from author Gail Fisher’s crossover experiences as well as those of the hundreds of students she has helped make the change over the past thirteen years.

Does your dog go bonkers when the doorbell rings or when you grab the leash to take him for a walk? If you find your dog is often difficult to control, you are not alone! Getting your dog to calm down and relax is one of the most common challenges pet parents face. This two-part book will help you first identify the factors that cause this kind of behaviour in dogs, then it provides you with eleven key training exercises to teach your dog how to calm down, pay attention to you, relax, and respond to every day situations with confidence and composure. Chill Out will show you how to help your dog become the great dog you always knew he could be.

Karen Pryor’s all-positive clicker-training system is a safe, effective way to modify and shape behaviour. Karen can teach anyone to train animals with a cheap, plastic, hand held clicker, rewarding wanted behaviours — click! — and ignoring the unwanted. No leash-jerking. No pushing. No smacking. Practical and engrossing, Pryor explains the science behind her system, how it works and why it works, its applications for teaching humans, as well as step-by-step instructions on how to clicker-train your cat to give you a high five or your dog to find your car keys. What could be better than that?

The Level 1 Foundation Course teaches the key skills of using and managing rewards, how and why the clicker works, adding names to behaviours, basic shaping and targeting techniques.

2005 edition. This is essentially an introduction to clicker training (positive reinforcement training system based on operant conditioning, a set of scientific principles describing the development of behaviour in which the animal operates on the environment, instead of the other way around). Contents include: a memo from Karen, A Dog & A Dolphin (training without punishment), Getting Started (a few easy behaviors to train with a clicker), Clicker tips, frequently asked questions, and resources.

Learn how our behaviour affects the personality of our dogs. Although you may not be aware of it, every interaction you have with your dog, each pat on the head, cluck of disapproval, or offer of a treat, your dog is learning something. Whether he is learning something you want him to learn is another matter. If you want a well-behaved dog, you’re going to have to modify your own behaviour in order to modify his. The best way to achieve this is to understand how dogs think and learn. Dr. Yin’s positive approach to training your dog will help you see the world from your dog’s perspective and provide the necessary training tools to effect astounding behavioural changes.

Play is a natural form of learning. It varies from frivolous to intensely serious. It resolves conflict, strengthens bonds and provides physical workouts. Participants learn to play by rules and develop cunning strategies and solutions. During games players are not focussing on specific skills and their bodies and minds can learn effectively. They will be stretched physically and mentally. This book covers a range of over 50 Games and variations selected from the rich background of Kay’s teaching practice. You can build a specific curriculum for your dog or simply enjoy the teaching learning process.

Explains the science of operant conditioning, the psychological principle upon which almost all animal training is based. Operant conditioning is the place where science and dog training meet, and the authors bring you there in terms anyone can easily grasp. Every scientific concept is explained clearly and precisely, and its relevance to your dog is laid out. Includes a history of animal training, the basic principles of behaviour, behavioural diagnostics (why does the dog do that?), increasing behaviors (teaching your old dog new tricks), decreasing behaviours (dealing with canine delinquents), differential reinforcement, antecedent control, and using punishment. A must-have book for the more serious dog person or behaviourist.

Step-by-step guide to applying the new science of clicker training to the demands of obedience performance, from novice through utility. You’ll get specific instructions, including footwork diagrams and training plans, for developing extreme precision and reliability in dog and handler, through shaping and positive reinforcement. Spector emphasizes the behavioural concept of building basic skills, from puppyhood onward so that the dog is prepared for each exercise even before advanced work begins. This detailed and thorough book, written by an attorney who is also an obedience competitor and instructor, may change your entire approach to obedience training.

Click for Joy! is packed with information experienced trainers and newcomers alike can put to use immediately, including: Positive solutions to common problems. Practical instructions to train any behaviour to any level of reliability required. Encouragement, advice, and success stories from clicker trainers around the world. Short-term and long-term consequences of controversial training techniques. Clear, easy-to-understand explanations of the science underlying clicker training. Glossary of clicker training terms and concepts. Easy-to-use cross-referencing and index. Whether you are sorting out the principles and methods of clicking for yourself or need answers for your students, Click for Joy! is the source for facts and advice that you will turn to again and again.

This update of the perennially popular guide provides everything you need to know to develop a healthy relationship with a well–behaved dog. With easy–to–understand instructions and helpful illustrations, Dog–Friendly Dog Training, 2nd Edition begins with the necessary tools for teaching your dog, and then covers house-training, socialisation, basic manners, and problem solving, all using proven, positive methods.

Outlines everything you need to know to select the right puppy, as well as all the crucial lessons a puppy must be taught during its impressionable early development.

When humans communicate with dogs, a lot can get lost in the translation. Focusing on human behaviour, Dr. McConnell teaches readers how to retrain themselves to speak consistently in a language dogs understand and avoid sending conflicting and confusing messages.

Easy to follow instructions that teach you a kind and effective method for encouraging dogs to walk on leash without pulling.

Norwegian dog trainer Turid Rugaas is a noted expert on canine body language, notably “calming signals” which are signals dogs give other dogs and humans that denote stress. These are dogs’ attempt to defuse situations that otherwise might result in fights or aggression.

Help for those whose dog suffers badly from Separation Anxiety, help in preventing it from developing, and tips on how to raise a dog with good “house manners.”

More than 40 exercises in an easy-to-follow training recipe format, including how to desensitize your dog to approaching stranger dogs; have your dog perform canine calming signals, instead of aggressive displays, on cue; use your own body language when under stress as a cue for your dog to remain calm; and many more creative and effective uses of managing behavior through clicker training.

In her newest book, Pat Miller explores the role and benefits of play between you and your dog - and between dogs. Play behaviours have important learning and health benefits that help dogs become well-adjusted members of both their canine and human families. Pat includes dozens of game ideas collected from trainers all over the country you can try out with your dog(s).

This revolutionary, humane, and logical approach to raising and training provides a beacon for all positive dog trainers. In “The Dog Whisperer, 2nd Edition”, Paul Owens and Norma Eckroate offer more in-depth training with additional notes, tips, and problem-solving to make training even easier! This new edition includes updated material on the power of no-force training and why training methods that use physical force, physical punishment, and so-called dominance training are both unnecessary and potentially harmful.

Not exclusively a dog training book - Karen Pryor the author is famous as an early dolphin trainer. Outlines 8 methods for putting an end to all kinds of undesirable behaviour without yelling, threats, force, punishment, guilt trips - or shooting the dog; the 10 laws of shaping behaviour through affection training; how to combat your own addictions to alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, overeating or whatever; how to deal with such difficult problems as a moody spouse, an impossible teen, or an aged parent; PLUS housetraining the dog, improving your tennis game, keeping the cat off the table, and much, much more! This latest edition has an additional chapter, “Clicker Training, A New Technology.” This covers the use of clickers in dog training, why it works.

The Toolbox is a set of principles and practices you can use to analyse and address any behaviour problem you may encounter. Unlike other problem-solving books that are limited in scope, Terry arms you with the tools you need to design your own solutions. Her method is based on positive motivation and rewards. Terry Ryan has been a dog trainer for almost three decades. She lectures extensively in the U.S., Europe, Australia and Japan, and has implemented Canine Good Citizen programs in Australia and Japan. Her short booklets have sold briskly worldwide. This is her first full-length book.

Whether you have an infant, toddler, or school age child and are thinking about getting a puppy, or have a beloved pet and are planning to start a family, “Raising Puppies & Kids Together” is an essential guide for anyone who wants a safe, sane and happy household. Two top trainers explain how to train your puppy and show you the best training methods for a polite and well mannered dog. At the same time, you’ll discover important rules to teach your child, as well as learn how to keep your child’s behaviour from being misinterpreted by the dog.

Communication is crucial in any relationship - especially when one of you happens to be a dog. Drawing on substantial research in animal behaviour, Stanley Coren demonstrates that the average house dog can distinguish at least 140 words and can interact at a level approaching that of a human two-year-old. While actual conversation of the sort Lassie seemed capable of in Hollywood myth-making remains in the realm of fantasy, this book shows us that a great deal of real communication is possible between humans and dogs beyond the simple giving and obeying of commands. How to Speak Dog not only explains the sounds, words, actions and movements which will help owners to communicate most effectively with their dogs; it also deciphers the signs and signals our dogs are giving to us. With easy-to-follow tips on how humans can mimic the language dogs use to talk to one another, original drawings illustrating the subleties of canine body language and a handy visual glossary, How to Speak Dog gives dog lovers a whole new range of essential skills with which to improve their relationship with their dogs.

The book that has shaped modern thinking about canine behaviour and the relationship between dogs and humans has been revised. Dogs are NOT humans. Dogs ARE clever and complex creatures that humans need to take the time to understand in order to live together successfully. You must read this book because your dog cannot!