Play Your Way to Good Manners (eBook)

Getting the Best Behavior from Your Dog Through Sports, Games, and Tricks

Kate Naito, Sarah Westcott (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
224 Seiten
Companionhouse Books (Verlag)
978-1-62187-186-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Shows how to train dogs with cool tricks, exciting sports moves, and interactive games. · Draws from techniques used in canine sports and applies them to a positive-reinforcement manners training program. · Effective strategies for teaching dogs impulse control, obedience, polite leash walking, and good manners around kids and strangers. · The authors are prominent urban dog training professionals. · "Dog training" is a steady search term in Google Trends, with a twenty percent increase in the last three years.

Autor

Kate Naito is a CPDT-KA certified dog trainer, Manners Program Director at Doggie Academy, and author of BKLN Manners™: Positive Training Solutions for Your Unruly Urban Dog. An avid writer and experienced educator with an MS in teaching, Kate was an editor and writer of feature articles for an equine publication (now called Equine Journal), and currently writes positive-training articles for petguide.com and maintains a training blog at bklnmanners.com. Kate is a rescue advocate who has volunteered for many causes, currently coordinating the monthly newsletter for Blind Dog Rescue Alliance. Sarah Westcott, CPDT-KSA, is the founder of Doggie Academy and the Brooklyn Dog Training Center. Sarah enjoys training and competing in agility with her Lab mix Hank and Border Collie Fever. Sarah and Hank were honored to be amongst the competitors at the very first Master's Agility Championship at Westminster and were thrilled to win the 24" Excellent Standard class. In less than a year, Fever reached the Masters level in AKC Agility. Sarah and Fever also enjoy training in sheep herding, dock diving and disc dog. Both dogs have appeared on TV, including Blacklist: Redemption and the Netflix show Seven Seconds.

Inhalt

Table of Contents Note: Labels B: Basic A: Advanced M: Manners S: Sports G: Games T: Tricks INTRODUCTION Control Yourself Training Should be Tricky Why Positive Training Works For the "Problem Child" Click and Treat Charge the Clicker (B-G) Dog Sports Overview Agility Freestyle Rally Scent work Parkour Other sports Safety First How to Read this Book CHAPTER 1: FOUNDATION: EVERYBODY, JUST CHILL Don't Forget to Breathe First, the Human Training Sequence for Training Cues For the Dog Basic Behaviors Check Me Out (B-M) The Magic Word (B-M) Advanced Behaviors Patience Pays Off (A-M) Balance an Object (A-T) Tug to Manage Arousal Level (A-G) Clicker Training: Free Shaping 101 (A-G) CHAPTER 2: MAKE SITS, DOWNS, AND STAYS FUN Basic Behaviors Sit (B-M) Down (B-M) Stay (B-M) Duration Distance Distraction Advanced Behaviors Side Sit (A-S) Sit-Down-Sit (A-S) Sit-Walk Around / Down-Walk Around (A-S) Stay around Movement (A-M) Sit between Legs (A-S) Play Dead (A-T) Splat (A-T) [dog lies flat with head down] Roll Over (A-T) CHAPTER 3: RELIABLE RECALLS Basic Behaviors Catch Up with Me (B-G) Chase Game (B-G) Restrained Recall (B-M) Hand Target (B-M) Advanced Behaviors Recall Past a Distraction (A-M) Hide and Seek (A-G) Fetch (including Drop It) (A-G) Retrieve (Rally) (A-S) CHAPTER 4: GET THE MOST OUT OF LEASHED WALKS Attention Behaviors: Basic Walk with Attention (B-M) Put a Stop to Pulling (B-M) Stuck in a Rut (B-M) [when dog gets leash wrapped around pole] Heel (B-S) Attention Behaviors: Advanced Backwards Heel (A-S) Taking Turns (A-S) [Rally turns] Two Feet On (A-S) Four Feet On (A-S) Avoiding Confrontations: Basic "You Found One!" Game (B-G) New Yorker Walk (B-M) Hand Target to Redirect (B-M) Avoiding Confrontations: Advanced Left About Turn (A-S) Call Front Return to Heel (A-S) Walk Backwards (A-S) Halt-180 Degree Pivot-Halt (A-S) Solve Sidewalk Snacking: Basic Drop It During Play (B-G) Drop It With Food (B-M) Leave It (B-M) Solve Sidewalk Snacking: Advanced Heel on Both Sides (A-S) Fast and Slow Pace (A-S) Hold (A-S) [hold object in mouth] Walking Games to Build Teamwork, Burn Energy, and Impress Neighbors: Basic Serpentines and Circles (B-S) Spirals (B-S) Trick on a Platform (B-S) Get on: Back Feet (B-S) Straddle (B-S) Go Around (B-S) Jump Over (B-S) Under (B-S) Between (B-S) Walk on (balance) (B-S) Walking Games to Build Teamwork, Burn Energy, and Impress Neighbors: Advanced Backwards Between (A-S) Backwards Up Stairs (A-S) Toe to Toe (A-T) [dog's front paws on handler's feet] Mirror Image: Sidepass (A-S) Straddle Sidepass (A-S) Weave Through Legs (Walking Forward) (A-S) Bouncing off the Walls (A-S) [rebounds] CHAPTER 5: TRICKS AND GAMES FOR GUESTS AND KIDS Basic Tricks and Games Paw for Guests and Passers-by (B-T) Meerkat (B-T) [sit pretty] Take a Bow (B-T) Chin Rest (B-T) Kiss Me (B-T) Spin (B-T or B-S) Catch a Cookie (B-T) Run Through your Legs (B-S) Pick a Hand (B-S) Jump over your Leg (B-S) Go to your Bed (B-M) Advanced Tricks and Games Wave (A-T) Stick 'Em Up (A-T) Crawl (A-T) Pretty Please (A-T) High Five and High Ten (A-T) Infinity Weave through your Legs (A-S) Jump through your Arms (A-T) Ring Toss (A-T) Criss Cross Applesauce (A-T) [cross front paws] Jump into your Arms (A-T) CHAPTER 6: HOUSEHOLD CHORES YOUR DOG CAN DO Basic Household Chores Close the Door (B-T) Ring a Bell (B-T) Open the Door (B-T) Open a Drawer (B-T) Advanced Household Chores Pull off your Socks (A-T) Retrieve a Specific Item (A-S) Doggie Delivery (A-T) Put Your Toys Away (A-T) CHAPTER 7: RAINY DAY GAMES TO BEAT BOREDOM Free Shaping Games Paw Target Games 101 Things to Do with a Box Body Parts Scent Games Basic Searches Intermediate Searches Advanced Searches At-home Agility DIY Jump Poles Hula Hoop Jump DIY Tunnel Targeting Objects Parkour Indoors 5 Uses for a Chair Mealtime Games Food-Dispensing Toys Find It Game in a Room Find It Game in a Sheet/Blanket Treat and Train Puppod Other Easy Indoor Games Automatic Ball Thrower Flirt pole Balanc

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.6.2019
• Verlagsort: Mount Joy
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Tiere / Tierhaltung
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Agility • AKC • bkln manners • blacklist redemption • brooklyn dog training center • canine • canine games • canine sports • dog academy • dog activities • dog activity • dog behavior • dog behavior book • dog book • dog exercise • dog fun • dog games • doggie academy • dog manners • dog owner • dog play • dog rescue • Dogs • dog safety • dog safety|dog school • dog school • dog sports • Dog trainer • Dog training • dog training book • dog tricks • how to train dog • impulse control • kate naito • leash walking • manners training • Obedience • Parkour • play your way to good manners • polite dog • positive reinforcement • Rescue • sarah westcott • seven seconds • train dogs • training program • trick training • urban dog • Westminster
• ISBN-10: 1-62187-186-X / 162187186X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62187-186-6 / 9781621871866