Title: Puppy Training: A Puppy Owner's Week-by-Week Positive-Training Guide (CompanionHouse Books) Complete Step-by-Step Dog Training Handbook with Basic Commands, Tips, Tricks, Sensible Advice, and More
Publisher: CompanionHouse Books
Publication Date: 2003
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1593783655
ISBN 13: 9781593783655
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

Your step-by-step guide to puppy training!

Positive training program for puppies over the course of eight weeks
Reward-based methods using food or praise, depending on your puppy's personality
Basic commands such as sit, stand, sit-stay, and stand-stay
Tips and tricks for training, addressing problem behaviors, grooming, and more
Over 100 color photos illustrate commands and training methods

The week-by-week training guide for all new puppy owners!

Puppy-class instructor Charlotte Schwartz trained dogs for over forty years and was a popular author whose no-nonsense style of writing and training comes forth on every page of this amazing introductory guide.

A positive puppy training guide focusing on the first eight weeks that a puppy spends in the new owner's home, Puppy Training walks you through the lessons to teach one week at a time, offering common-sense solutions to obedience and housetraining problems along the way.

Sidebars throughout the text offer useful tips and alternative methods to teach lessons, all of which were originated by Schwartz in her puppy classes over the decades and are illustrated here with over 100 color photographs. From the first week, during which the dog is taught to sit and stand, to the eighth week, devoted to teaching your pup to retrieve and a trick or two, this puppy primer is one of the best canine educational tools available!

Inside this helpful 128-page resource, you'll explore the advantages of training your young puppy, along with the basic commands and behaviors to teach them over the course of their training program. Learn about basic theories of training and development and the positive methods you will use in teaching your dog. The equipment you'll need for training, the use of food and praise, and testing your pup's personality are discussed, followed by an in-depth, step-by-step method to ensure your success in house-training.

Learn the secrets of success: how to get your puppy's attention, how to practice properly, and how to reward your dog. Begin with the sit and stand commands and learn how to incorporate your dog's toys into their training. Progress to sit-stay and stand-stay commands, bring your puppy out and about for some essential socialization, set up a feeding schedule, and examine common behaviors in teething pups.

The down, heel, and watch me exercises are covered as well as how to discourage your pup from jumping on people and furniture. Introduce your dog to agility-based activities and teach them how to behave around strangers, fun tricks, the down-stay exercise, and the sit-stay at mealtime. The very important "leave it" exercise is discussed along with helping your dog get accustomed to various grooming procedures. You'll also learn how to address and alter your puppy's bad habits and discover how a dog's memory affects their learning and your methods of teaching.

Give yourself and your dog the tools you both need for good manners and a lifetime of companionship, with Puppy Training!