Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888047070 ISBN 13: 9781888047073

Publisher: James and Kenneth Publishers, 1996

This book is the secret for increasing the speed and efficiency of dog training. With the freedom of understanding "how your dog learns" comes the ability of making the process easy, efficient, and enjoyable for your dog. You'll be in a position to excel-erate your dog's learning! At long last we have someone who can explain all-important learning theory and make it intriguing and interesting. Agility enthusiast, obedience competitor and psychologist Dr. Pamela Reid introduces you to cutting-edge scientific techniques in dog training including, autoshaping retrieval (i.e., teaching your dog to train herself), and "errorless discrimination learning" for teaching retrieval and directed jumping. You'll love this book?it's so useful and utterly fascinating.

About the Author:

Pamela Reid earned her PhD in Psychology from the University of Toronto, where she specialized in animal learning, behavior and cognition. Dr. Reid teaches at the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph. Dr. Reid is a certified animal behaviorist and operates a Toronto-based private practice for problem pets. Pam competes in agility, obedience and flyball and lives with Shaahin (the Saluki), Ciaran (the Border Collie), Eejit (the Border Collie/Border Terrier mix, and Carmen (the cat).