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Recommended Books and Videos

Beginning Training/New Pet Owners

        * or * * denotes our favorite "Getting started" ligature and videos

  1. "Pet Dog Training" - Ian Dunbar **
  2. Beginning Family Dog Training - Patricia McConnell
  3. Click & Treat Training Kit - Gary Wilkes *
  4. Click & Treat Doggie Repair Kit (video) - Gary Wilkes
  5. Click For Success - The Clicked Retriever - Lana Mitchell
  6. Clicker Magic - Karen Pryor*
  7. Dr. Dunbar’s Good Little Dog Book - Dunbar**
  8. A Dog & A Dolphin - Karen Pryor **
  9. Housetraining - Dunbar & Bohnenkamp*
  10. How to Raise a Puppy You Can Live With - Rutherford
  11. How to Teach A New Dog Old Tricks - Dunbar
  12. Preventing Aggression -Dunbar & Bohnenkamp*
  13. Puppy Love: Raise Your Dog the Clicker Way Video - Karen Pryor
  14. Puppy Primer - Terry Ryan**
  15. The Right Dog For You - Daniel Tortora
  16. Sirius Puppy Training ( book & video) - Dunbar**
  17. Think Dog! An Owners Guide to Canine Psychology - John Fisher**
  18. Toolbox for Remodeling Your Problem Dogs - Ryan
  19. Training the Companion Dog (4 videos) - Dunbar*
  20. Your New Baby & Bowser - Rafe

Advanced Training

        * or ** denotes our favorite "Getting started" litrature and videos

  1. Competition Obedience: A Balancing Act - Judy Byron and Adele Yunck
  2. Culture Clash - Jean Donaldson**
  3. Humans and Domestic Dogs - Donaldson
  4. Dog Language: An Encyclopedia of Canine*
  5. Behavior - Roger Abrantes
  6. Dogwise - John Fisher
  7. Dominant Dog (video) - John Rogerson
  8. Don’t Shoot the Dog - Karen Pryor*
  9. Evolution of Canine Social Behavior - Abrantes
  10. Excel-Erated Learning; Explaining How Dogs Learn**
  11. How Best to Teach Them - Pamela J. Reid
  12. Fun and Games with Dogs, More Fun and Games with Dogs, and Fun Nosework for Dogs - Roy Hunter
  13. Give Your Dog A Bone - Billinghurst
  14. A Guide To Inducive Retrieve - Sternberg
  15. Jumping From A To Z - Zink and Daniels
  16. On Talking Terms With Dogs: Calming Signals - Turid Rugaas**
  17. Positively Fetching Video - Byron and Yunck
  18. Peak Performance: Conditioning the Canine
  19. Athlete - Dr. M. Christine Zink
  20. Power of Positive Training - 5 Vol. Set (video)Turner, Nelson, Ruzzo
  21. Reinforcement Training for Dogs - John Fisher
  22. Shaping and Sit Clap Furbish and Targeting (videos) - Karen Pryor and Gary Wilkes**
  23. Take A Bow...Wow! Fun And Functional Dog Tricks and Bow Wow Take 2 (videos) - Broitman and Lippman

These are a good start to understanding you dog. A good puppy class at 12 weeks of age will help you problem solve, train with distractions and put the reading into practice.

If you have trouble finding these titles in your local bookstore, we will be happy to order them for you. You may also contact Direct Book Service at 1-800-776-2665 or www.dogandcatbooks.com

Or try this link as they carry so many of the dog training books we recommend... The Dog and Cat Book Catalog!

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