These easy-to-learn stress-prevention exercises, and special relaxation massages - for owner and dog - can calm and relax both you and your canine companion. This book will help you to begin building a better, more understanding relationship with your best friend.

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.

Step-by-step explanation of all phases of the conditions and its symptoms - Understand what the vet advises - Help your dog remain calm in a stressful situation - Surgical options - Aftercare options - Make the right decision about what to do next. Includes information on exercise, and hints on how to get your dog moving again after surgery, all written in an easy-to-understand style.

This invaluable book will sympathetically help owners of deaf and hard-of-hearing dogs not just to accept their loyal companions for what they are, but also explain how, with love and careful thought, they and their dog can get the maximum out of life, having fun and establishing an even closer bond as they help each other find new or adapted ways to live together.

This unique book explores canine hydrotherapy, rehabilitation and weight management, and how these can improve your dog's well-being. Hydrotherapy can help prevent and treat many medical problems and pre-/post-operative conditions in dogs, and can also be used for rehabilitation and maintaining health and fitness in your dog.

A wonderful introduction into the anatomy of a dog using color photos and graphics with some interesting physiological facts thrown in here and there. There is a list of technical terms and their scientific equivalents at the end of the book, and detailed drawings help explain each area of the anatomy of the dog.

Most scientists now agree that the dog is a subspecies of wolf—Canis lupus familiaris. And while most wolves look and act differently from most dogs, it can be very hard to make accurate identifications, especially since wolves and dogs can and do interbreed and certain breeds of dogs look and act a lot like wolves. Having spent years employed at Wolf Park, in Indiana, authors Jessica Addams and Andrew Miller have encountered hundreds of so-called wolves that turned out to be dogs, hybrids that exhibit the characteristics of both wolves and dogs, and even pure wolves that act like dogs.

Between Dog and Wolf takes a fascinating look at how wolves and dogs are related, why they can be so hard to tell apart and what rescue organizations need to know when they encounter a canine of unknown origins.

Help give your dog the key to the kingdom of scent Your dog truly rules when it comes to scenting ability, but you hold the key to allow him to learn how to more fully explore his kingdom. And that key is your willingness to work with him in what dog trainers call nosework exercises and games. While your dog has a wonderful innate ability to scent, nosework will present fun and interesting challenges which will make your dog more physically and mentally fit as well as to help solidify your relationship with your dog. Anne Lill Kvam’s The Canine Kingdom of Scent provides you all you need to know in terms of training techniques and tips so that you and your dog can both get all the benefits from doing nosework.

Step-by-step in these pages, Kyra shows how to create a happy, confident dog who is ready and motivated to work in a short amount of time. She teaches how to use positive, reward-based techniques that are fun for both the dog and trainer.