Super Simple Puppy Tricks and Training: Fun and Easy Step-by-Step Activities to Engage, Challenge, and Bond with Your Puppy

by Kyra Sundance

Overview

Teach your puppy essential skills, helpful behaviors, and fantastic tricks with this step-by-step, photo-illustrated guide designed to support your pup’s developing mind and body.

Super Simple Puppy Tricks and Training, adapted from 51 Puppy Tricks, guides you through the simple steps of teaching a trick. Troubleshooting ideas and tips provide solutions to common real-world challenges. Photos of every step of the training process show you exactly what to do and take the guesswork out of teaching.

The chapters cover:

• Preliminary Skills: respond to a clicker, kennel up, find me, and more.
• Body Positions: sit, down, crawl, roll over, kisses, and more.
• Coordination: tunnel, teeter board, hoop jump, flying disc, and more.
• Communication: ring a bell to go outside, leave it, sit before chowtime, and more.
• Shape Behavior: fetch, open the door, hide your eyes, and more.
• Chaining: litter in the step can, soda from the fridge, mail from the mailbox, and more.

An appendix lists the tricks by skill level so you can find just the right tricks to teach your puppy. A glossary of terms ensures you’ll know exactly what is being discussed.

Bond with your puppy as he or she gains confidence and learns amazing new skills with Super Simple Puppy Tricks and Training!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780760390672
Publisher:	New Shoe Press
Publication date:	05/07/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	16 MB
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About the Author

Kyra Sundance is a world-renowned dog trainer, lecturer, and internationally best-selling author of 101 Dog Tricks: Step by Step Activities to Engage, Challenge, and Bond with Your Dog. With over a million copies in print, Kyra’s award-winning books, kits, and videos have inspired dog owners worldwide to develop fun and rewarding relationships with their dogs. Her other books include Dog Training 101, The Joy of Dog Training, The Dog Tricks and Training Workbook, Kyra’s Canine Conditioning, 51 Puppy Tricks, 10-Minute Dog Training Games, The Pocket Guide to Dog Tricks, and 101 Dog Tricks, Kids Edition.

Honed through decades of professional experience, Kyra’s easy step-by-step training methods are the most effective and humane way to train. Her positive methods foster confident, happy dogs who are motivated to do the right thing, rather than fearful of making a mistake.

As professional performers, Kyra and her Weimaraners starred in shows for the king of Morocco, Disney’s Hollywood stage shows, circuses, NBA halftime shows, on The Tonight Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Animal Planet, in movies, and in their own television series. Kyra is a professional set trainer for movie dogs, and is nationally ranked in competitive dog sports. She presents workshops around the world on dog tricks and canine conditioning.

Kyra is CEO of “Do More With Your Dog!” trick dog titling organization; the “National Trick Dog championships”; and Chair of the “Trick Dog Expo.”

Kyra lives in Lancaster, California.

Kyra Sundance is a world-renowned dog trainer, lecturer, and internationally best-selling author of 101 Dog Tricks: Step by Step Activities to Engage, Challenge, and Bond with Your Dog. With over a million copies in print, Kyra's award-winning books, kits, and videos have inspired dog owners worldwide to develop fun and rewarding relationships with their dogs. Her other books include Dog Training 101, The Joy of Dog Training, The Dog Tricks and Training Workbook, Kyra's Canine Conditioning, 51 Puppy Tricks, 10-Minute Dog Training Games, The Pocket Guide to Dog Tricks, and 101 Dog Tricks, Kids Edition.Honed through decades of professional experience, Kyra's easy step-by-step training methods are the most effective and humane way to train. Her positive methods foster confident, happy dogs who are motivated to do the right thing, rather than fearful of making a mistake.As professional performers, Kyra and her Weimaraners starred in shows for the king of Morocco, Disney's Hollywood stage shows, circuses, NBA halftime shows, on The Tonight Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Animal Planet, in movies, and in their own television series. Kyra is a professional set trainer for movie dogs, and is nationally ranked in competitive dog sports. She presents workshops around the world on dog tricks and canine conditioning.Kyra is CEO of "Do More With Your Dog!" trick dog titling organization; the "National Trick Dog championships"; and Chair of the "Trick Dog Expo."Kyra lives in Lancaster, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction 
Preliminary Skills 
Body Positions 
Coordination 
Communication 
Shape Behavior 
Chaining 
Appendix: Tricks by Skill Level 
Glossary 
About the Author 
About the Photographer