Competability: Solving Behavior Problems in Your Cat-Dog Household - Softcover

Shojai, Amy

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Synopsis

CREATE A PEACEABLE DOG-CAT KINGDOM!

Cat behavior and dog behavior puzzles the most savvy pet owners especially when you put dogs and cats together. Behavior problems lose dogs and cats their homes. Animal behavioral expert Amy Shojai takes the mystery out of dog language or cat language, explains reasons behind dog aggression and dog bites, cat clawing and scratching, missing the litter box, house training problems and how to understanding and redirect normal behavior.

Not just a dog training book or cat care advice, you'll learn about cat and dog evolution and how it effects how dogs eat, how cats hunt, why dog dominance is a myth and how cat social structure really works. Step by step cat and dog tips from this award-winning author and certified animal behavior consultant uses pet psychology to address:

  • Recognize and diffuse cat aggression and aggressive dog behavior
  • Stop cat bites and dog bites
  • Settle disputes over territory
  • Soothe cat stress and feline fear
  • Address scared dogs and noise phobias to fireworks fears and thunderstorm phobias
  • Stop bully behavior Solve hit and miss litter box problems
  • Manage pet food, nutrition and meals
  • Choose pet friends to reduce cat fights and dog fights
  • Pet introduction and techniques
  • Introduce cats or dogs to a new baby or kids
  • Canine separation anxiety, dog separation behaviors, and dog destructive behaviors
  • Dog resource guarding of toys, food and owners
  • Puppy house training and dog marking behaviors

Categories include: dog behavior books, cat behavior books, cat behavior problems, dog behavior problems, dog training, dog sense, cat sense

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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

CREATE A PEACEABLE DOG-CAT KINGDOM!

Cat and behavior puzzles the most savvy pet owners especially when you putdogs and cats together. Behavior problems lose dogs and cats theirhomes. Animal behavior expert Amy Shojai takes the mystery out of dogand cat language, explains reasons behind dog aggression and catclawing, how to fix house training problems and understanding andredirect irksome pet behaviors.

You'll also learn about cat and dog evolution and how it effects how dogs eat, how cats hunt, why dogdominance is a myth and how cat social structure really works. Step bystep cat and dog tips from this award-winning author and certifiedanimal behavior consultant uses pet psychology to address:

Recognize and diffuse aggression
Settle disputes over territory
Soothe cat stress and feline fear
Address noise phobias
Stop bully behavior
Solve hit and miss litter box problems
Manage pet food, nutrition and meals
Choose comPETable pet friends
Pet introduction and techniques
Introductions to a new baby or kids

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