ComPETability: Solving Behavior Problems In Your Multi-Dog Household - Softcover
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Synopsis
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Dog behavior challenges the most knowledgeable dog lovers, and dog behavior problems lose pets their homes. Dog behavioral problems arise out of owners not understanding dog language and normal animal behavior.Dog training helps stop dog barking, for instance, but this book explains why dogs bark and how to understand dog behavior and manage puppies and dogs whether you have a single canine, a puppy or multiple dogs. Step by step tips from this award-winning author and certified animal behavior consultant uses dog psychology to address:
- Dog bites, dog aggression, and dog fights
- Scared dogs, noise phobias, dog fireworks fears, and canine thunder phobias
- Canine separation anxiety, dog separation behaviors, and dog destructive behaviors
- Dog resource guarding of toys, food and owners
- Manage dog food issues and feeding dogs
- Puppy house training and dog marking behaviors
- Positive dog training, clicker training, lure training, and obedience training
- Proper dog introductions
- Introduce dogs to new dogs
- Introduce dogs to baby or kids
- Introduce dogs to cats
- Reduce bullying behavior
- How to choose pet friends to reduce growls
- barking
- puppy chewing
- dog digging
- puppies eating poop
- dogs rolling in poop
- dogs jumping up, and more!
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About the Author
Amy Shojai has been reinventing herself for years. She also writes the September Day suspense series LOST AND FOUND and HIDE AND SEEK (and others) that includes an animal behaviorist hero and service dog viewpoint character.
Amy is a certified animal behavior consultant, and the award-winning author of 30 best selling pet books that cover furry babies to old-fogies, first aid to natural healing, and behavior/training to Chicken Soup-icity. She created the puppies.About.com site, the cat behavior content at cats.About.com, and hosts a weekly half hour Internet Pet Peeves radio show. Amy has been featured as an expert in hundreds of print venues including The New York Times, Reader's Digest, and Family Circle, as well as national radio and television networks such as CNN, Animal Planet's DOGS 101 and CATS 101. She's been a consultant to the pet products industry and a host/program consultant for select "furry" TV projects. Amy is also a musician, actor and playwright, and brings her unique pet-centric viewpoint to public appearances and performances, audio books (her own and others), writer webinars, conference keynotes/seminars and THRILLERS WITH BITE!
From the Back Cover
Fun, practical, and eminently informative, ComPETability helps you devise strategies that enable multiple dogs to live in harmony within the same household. Written by one of America's premier pet experts, the book explains everything the loving dog owner needs to know. Most important, CompPETability provides crucial tips on how to evaluate and match your pets' personalities, improve their relationships, and make your home a sanctuary for canine fun and peace.
The United States is home to 78.2 million owned dogs, and 28 percent of owners own more than one dog while 12 percent own three or more. That means more furry love for owners, but also can create a howling mess over that (GRRRR!) new canine friend. From conflicts over resource guarding favorite toys and chew bones to dog jealous behavior when sharing time with a favorite human, adding new pets rubs fur the wrong way and creates hairy situations for everyone--including you.
This new guide gives owners the ability to understand dogs behavior including aggressive dog behavior, dog language, positive dog obedience training techniques, how to stop dog biting and prevent dog behavioral problems. You'll find detailed prescriptive how-to advice focused in the most common problems found in the multi-dog household. Use these animal behaviorists fun techniques to learn about normal canine behavior, dog behavior modification techniques, and expert dog trainer tips to solve common dog problems and strengthen the human animal bond you share with your dogs.
For more pet behavior advice refer to: ComPETability: Solving Behavior Problems In Your CAT-DOG Household as well as ComPETability: Solving Behavior Problems In Your Multi-CAT Household
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