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Anyone who is trying to housetrain a dog knows that life can become messy in a hurry. Now animal behavioral therapist Krista Cantrell reveals how to make housetraining easy, fun, and rewarding with her step-by-step solutions to training dogs of all ages, sizes, and breeds. In Housetrain Your Dog Now, readers will learn:

How to housetrain in just fourteen days
Techniques and tricks that make training easier
How to avoid five common training mistakes
How to retrain the resistant dog
Solutions to common housetraining problems
How to train city, suburban, and country dogs

Complete with photographs and practical, hands-on instructions, Housetrain Your Dog Now promises an “accident-free” dog in just two weeks. This essential guide also offers hope to many frustrated dog owners by showing that housetraining doesn’t have to be a chore but instead can be a bonding process to enhance relationships with their pets.

About the Author

Krista Cantrell, an animal behavioral therapist, is a frequent speaker and clinician who describes her training methods as “dog-friendly.” Over her more than twenty years of experience, she has developed her own dog-training philosophy, emphasizing experiential learning, behavior modification, and her own playSMART techniques. She is the author of Catch Your Dog Doing Something Right, and lives in the high Sonoran Desert of Arizona with her husband, dog, cat, and six horses.

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Complete and comprehensive, this handbook includes sections on choosing and finding the right dog, finding a vet, dog handling and training, understanding a dog’s diet and exercise needs, and much more. 72 illustrations. 4 line drawings.

About the Author

Marion S. Lane is the author of The Yorkshire Terrier and is on the board of governors of the Dog Writers Association of America.
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The Encyclopedia of Dog Sports and Activities presents a detailed overview of more than 35 sports and activities that are ideal for keeping dogs physically fit and mentally stimulated. Its comprehensive scope ranges from competitive events like agility, field trials, and hunt tests to noncompetitive pursuits like search and rescue and therapy. Each chapter profiles a different sport and includes information on its history, the equipment and skills required to get started, titles available for dogs to pursue based upon their breed and physical traits, competition classes and divisions, judging criteria of sponsoring organizations, and strategies for success. All profiles offer practical tips from experts who are heavily involved in and have achieved success in a given activity. Colorful photographs highlight each sport and activity, while an extensive glossary defines key sporting terms.

The only book on the market to cover such a wide variety of sports and activities in one indispensable and portable volume, The Encyclopedia of Dog Sports and Activities makes an ideal carry-along reference for sporting events to help the viewer understand what is happening. It is also perfect for use as a home reference to get more involved in your canine companion_s daily activities.


About the Author

DIANE MORGAN is an assistant professor at Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA. She has authored numerous books on canine care and nutrition, breed books, and horse books and has received numerous awards, including the Maxwell Medallion for The Living Well Guide for Senior Dogs. Diane lives in Williamsport, Maryland.

From Publishers Weekly

In the newest life-with-dogs memoir, veteran dog trainer and radio show co-host Forbes forgoes the maudlin for some genuine insight into dog behavior and psychology. Beginning with Lex, a German Shepherd that attacked its owner’s wife, Forbes chronicles the challenges and victories of rehabilitating and living with aggressive dogs that others would have given up on. Forbes doesn’t offer a program for dog training, but readers will benefit from his insights on the importance of a consistent training regimen and his approach to managing aggression. Arguing that dogs’ behavior is 75 percent genetic and 25 percent environmental, Forbes doesn’t offer any pat answers to handling a challenging dog besides a lot of patience and hard work. Still, those interested in the hows and whys of dog attacks and aggression will find the book useful, and Forbes’ tone of love and respect for his charges is itself both instructive and encouraging.
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