By adopting a more natural exercise regime, puppy owners can encourage appropriate and robust development of their dog's muscular and skeletal framework, thus assisting good mobility from puppy hood through to adulthood.

Tug playing is a popular and wonderful form of training when used safely and in balance with your dog. Tug games improve fitness for both you and your dog, are very reinforcing, and provide wonderful structure to the dog's learning. Note: The DVD can be viewed on a computer, or a PAL format DVD player.

New Expanded 2nd edition! Exercises and games train scent discrimination, search, and obedience skills. For pets as well as competition trackers and competitive obedience.

Revised Edition with new exercises and photos! Filled with easy-to-read and implement strategies, techniques, exercises and games, Dee walks the reader through over fifty methods of addressing canine fear and aggression. The simple and effective exercises will have you and your dog, or your clients and their dogs, well on the way to a happy relationship. Strictly positive methods!

A dog is all about their sense of smell. With up to 100 times as many olfactory receptors as humans, dogs use their sense of smell to "see" and interpret their world, just as we do with our eyes. So why not increase our communication with them on their level with more nose games?

This invaluable book will sympathetically show the owner of the newly-blind, or already blind dog that their loyal friend is still the same, with the same zest for and enjoyment of life. With love and careful thought, you and your dog can get as much out of life as you always have, having fun and establishing an even closer bond as you help each other find new or adapted ways to live together.

You might have a dog who you think will be a super-star on the agility course, but unless you work with him “from the ground up,” you may end up being disappointed. Author This is the perfect book for you if you have a puppy or a young dog and are planning a career in agility in the future, as it provides a complete training plan for both his pre-agility work and when he is ready to head out on the course.

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This book provides more than just fun ways to challenge a dog's thinking and puzzle-solving ability. Claire Arrowsmith strongly suggests that such challenges help build a strong bond between a dog and its owner. She examines the accepted evidence of the importance of mental stimulation and why it's important to use only reward-based teaching methods. She also explains how to use hand signals and incorporate mental challenges and learning into everyday activities.

Written by one of the world’s best dog trainers, Shaping Success gives an excellent explanation of the theory behind animal learning as Susan Garrett trains a high-energy Border Collie puppy to be an agility champion.