Please refer to newest edition! 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
This book also offers fun how-to advice to solve common pet peeves:
- barking
- puppy chewing
- dog digging
- puppies eating poop
- dogs rolling in poop
- dogs jumping up, and more!
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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!
