Building Blocks for Performance - Softcover

Anderson, Bobbie; Libby, Tracy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1577790375 ISBN 13: 9781577790372

Publisher: Alpine Pubns Inc, 2002

Synopsis

Want to win in your chosen performance event? Looking forward to raising a new puppy that you hope can do just that? Read this book before your puppy comes home.

* Motivate your puppy to enjoy training

* Build drive through goal oriented games

* Tailor your interaction with your puppy to his future performance event.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Building Block for Performance won the 2003 Radio Systems award for "Best Dog Training Book"

From the Author:

There are many wonderful methods for training puppies. My goal with this book is to offer you training methods and techniques that will help you to build a solid foundation of behaviors in your future performance dog. While the methods in this book will work with any dog, they are designed especially for owners and handlers who intend to raise and train a puppy for competition in obedience, herding, agility, tracking, lure coursing, flyball, or any other competitive performance events. The methods I will teach you apply to puppies from six weeks to one year of age. In this book I assume that training begins when the puppy goes to a new home at eight or nine weeks of age. Behaviors are shaped by repetition and by building each lesson on the previous one, step-by-step. Whether you start with a puppy that is eight weeks or five months of age, the same principles apply. The length of time a puppy trains will vary depending on his temperament, energy level and so forth. A training session for an eight or ten-week-old puppy may be two or three minutes several times a day. A five- or six-month-old puppy can usually work for tem or fifteen minutes once or twice a day.

I invite you to read, apply, and test the ideas and techniques presented. Choose those that work for your individual puppy, and remember, no two puppies react alike. Come on, let’s get started building tat future winner! Bobbie Anderson

About this edition

• Publisher: Alpine Pubns Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1577790375
• ISBN 13: 9781577790372
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 133