People, Pooches and Problems: Understanding, Controlling and Correcting Problem Behavior in Your Dog

by Job Michael Evans, Grubbs Ju Evans, Kevin Smith (Photographer)

Overview

The paperback edition of Howell Book House classic by one of the true innovators of dog training. This innovative training approach addresses dog owners' goals, offering training strategies that simulate problem behaviors and showing how to correct them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780764563164
Publisher:	Turner Publishing Company
Publication date:	01/01/2001
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	242
Sales rank:	1,020,607
Product dimensions:	6.16(w) x 9.26(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

Job Michael Evans was a past president of the Dog Writers Association of America. He authored numerous dog training classics, including The Evans Guide to Housetraining Your Dog and Training & Explaining: How to Be the Dog Trainer You Want to Be.

Table of Contents

Foreword.

Note to Readers.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

1. Wolves and Dogs.

2. Bitch Basics.

3. Prevention or Correction?

4. A Worthy Cause.

5. Do You Have the Dog You Want?

6. Do Dogs Feel Guilt or Shame?

7. Your Owner Personality or How to Drive Your Dog Nuts in Five Days or Less.

8. Look, See, Observe, Memorize, Insee.

9. RRRR: A Radical Regimen for Recalcitrant Rovers.

10. Setting Up Set-ups.

11. Why Set-ups Sometimes Foul Up.

12. Creative Avoidance.

13. Words Dogs Live By.

14. Praise Problems.

15. The Crate as Cop-out.

16. Our Own "Urine Analysis".

17. Aggressive Advice: An Open Letter to the Owners of Canine Terrorists.

18. To Come or Not to Come.

19. Nutrition Notes.

20. In the Trenches: Inside Information for Individuals "in Dogs"

21. The Trials of Trainers.

22. A Panoply of Problems.

Bibliography.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

Hardened canine criminals meet their match in Evans ( The Evans Guide for Civilized City Canines ), who here outlines methods and philosophies likely to reform a rogue's gallery of aggressive, unresponsive, non-house-trained animals marauding as man's best friends. With his flexible and good-humored approach, Evans teaches how to develop proper leadership attitudes toward a dog as well as how to prevent or stamp out problems. The standout section here is the author's 20-step ``Radical Regimen for Recalcitrant Rovers,'' which has been privately making the rounds of the nation's top trainers with impressive results. Other piquant discussions include rebuttals of folk wisdom, as in an explanation of disciplining a dog after the fact, and clear directions for using set-ups to correct very specific infractions. Some self-help-style chatter invades the book (``I'll be publicly honest with you if you will be privately honest with yourself'') but does not detract from Evans's authority. Owners of even cherubic pets ought not pass up this thoroughly sound guide. Illustrations not seen by PW. (July)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Is your dog a candidate for tough love for pooches? If so, you may want to follow Evans's RRRR ``Radical Regimen for Recalcitrant Rovers,'' the basis for this dog obedience book. Evans, who has worked with dogs for 20 years, offers a holistic 20-step program for correcting behavioral problems. Since this is a long-term process, Evans realistically offers no ``quick fixes.'' He says that the key to success lies in the owner being the boss or Alpha dog; otherwise, a positive dog-owner relationship cannot be achieved. Evans includes worksheets to help guide the owner through the RRRR program. If your patrons need another dog obedience book, consider this as a worthy additional purchase. Photos not seen.-- Eva Lautemann, Dekalb Coll . Lib., Clarkston, Ga.

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