Competability: Solving Behavior Problems in Your Multi-Dog Household

STOP THE GROWLS!

People love dogs--and often double their pleasure by sharing their hearts (and pillows) with more than one. But dog behavior puzzles the most savvy pet owners especially when you add more pets to the furry equation. And behavior problems are the #1 reason pets lose their homes.

This book helps any dog lover (whether you share your home with one or a dozen canines). It demystifies common behaviors and dog disputes, explains aggression (it's NORMAL!), solves pet potty challenges and dinnertime woes, and redirects normal (but aggravating) dog-to-dog behaviors.

This guide explains aggressive dog behavior and dog fights, 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 from premier dog trainers and behaviorists on the most common problems found in the multi-dog household. 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:

1. barking
2. puppy chewing
3. dog digging
4. puppies eating poop
5. dogs rolling in poop
6. dogs jumping up, and more!

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.

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Amy Shojai has been reinventing herself for years. She also writes theSeptember Day suspense series LOST AND FOUND and HIDE AND SEEK (andothers) that includes an animal behaviorist hero and service dogviewpoint character.

Amy is a certified animal behaviorconsultant, and the award-winning author of 30 best selling pet booksthat cover furry babies to old-fogies, first aid to natural healing, and behavior/training to Chicken Soup-icity. She created thepuppies.About.com site, the cat behavior content at cats.About.com, andhosts a weekly half hour Internet Pet Peeves radio show. Amy has beenfeatured as an expert in hundreds of print venues including The New York Times, Reader's Digest, and Family Circle, as well as national radioand television networks such as CNN, Animal Planet's DOGS 101 and CATS101. She's been a consultant to the pet products industry and ahost/program consultant for select "furry" TV projects.Amy is also a musician, actor and playwright, and brings her uniquepet-centric viewpoint to public appearances and performances, audiobooks (her own and others), writer webinars, conferencekeynotes/seminars and THRILLERS WITH BITE!