Training Your Dog: The Step-by-Step Manual

by Joachim Volhard, Gail Tamases Fisher, John L. Fuller Ph.D. (Foreword by)

Overview

Eight carefully planned lessons teach you to apply canine/human learning patterns to train your dog simply, effectively, and permanently.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780876057759
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	02/01/1983
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.27(w) x 9.33(h) x 0.87(d)

About the Author

Gail Fisher has been training dogs professionally and teaching obedience classes for 12 years. She has developed and instructed a 2-year college program teaching others to be obedience class instructors. She also taught a college course for dog breeders. She has written many articles for Off-Lead, the obedience training magazine, and Purebred Dogs, the AKC publication. She has also given many lectures and seminars.

Jack Volhard has given obedience clinics all over America, Canada and England. He has written many articles for dog publications, including Purebred Dogs?American Kennel Gazette. He is the recipient of four awards from the Dog Writers Association of America. His film Puppy Attitude Testing was named Best Film on Dogs for 1980 by the DWAA. He is an Administrative Law Judge for the Department of Health and Human Services.

Table of Contents

About the Authors.

Foreword (John L. Fuller).

Introduction.

Acknowledgments.

1. The Mind of the Dog.

2. You and Your Dog.

3. Getting Ready.

4. Lesson 1.

5. Lesson 2.

6. Lesson 3.

7. Lesson 4.

8. Lesson 5.

9. Lesson 6.

10. Lesson 7.

11. Lesson 8.

12. Behavior Problems.

13. Obedience Trials.

14. Synopsis of Training Progressions.

Bibliography.

Index.