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Dog Training For Dummies

Make training fun and effectiveThis friendly guide shows you how to select the right training method for your dog, based on his unique personality, to reach your desired goals. Whether you want to teach Buddy to… (More)

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Sections

Introduction
About This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
What You’re Not to Read
Foolish Assumptions
How This Book Is Organized
Part I: Setting the Stage for Successful Training
Part II: Performing Puppy Preliminaries
Part III: Tackling Training Basics
Part IV: Taking Training to the Next Level
Part V: Dealing with Special Situations
Part VI: The Part of Tens
Icons Used in This Book
Where to Go from Here
Chapter 1
Dog Training: The Key to Your Dog’s Safety and Your Sanity
What Exactly Does Training Mean?
Identifying a Well-Trained Dog
Selecting a Training Model
First things first: Considering your dog’s breed
Traditional training
Clicker training
Five Basic Commands Every Dog Needs to Know
Recognizing Factors that Influence Success
Having a good relationship with your dog
Owning a healthy hound
Making training time a priority
Oh, the Places You and Your Pooch Can Go: Beyond the Basics
The Canine Good Citizen Certificate
AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy program
More than training: Understanding how dogs help people
An Exercise to Get You and Your Pooch Started
Figuring Out How Your Dog Thinks
Reading your dog
Knowing what to do when you don’t read your dog in time
Tackling distractions
Recognizing Your Dog’s Instinctive Behaviors
Prey drive
Pack drive
Defense drive
Understanding how the drives affect training
Determining Your Dog’s Personality Profile
Deciding How You Want Buddy to Act
Bringing out drives
Switching drives
Applying drives to your training
Remembering Who’s Training Whom
Managing the Dog Within
Breed-specific behaviors
Temperament
Mental sensitivity
Responses to visual stimuli
Sound sensitivity
Touch sensitivity – the adrenaline effect
Stressing the Effects of Stress
Understanding stress
Recognizing the symptoms of stress
Origins of stress — intrinsic and extrinsic
Relating stress to learning
Stress and distraction training
Managing stress
Managing Your Dog’s Environment
Starting on the right foot
Recognizing your dog’s social needs
Identifying your dog’s emotional needs
Feeding your dog’s nutritional needs
Understanding the “You” Factor
Knowing your expectations
Knowing your attitude
Being consistent with commands and tone of voice
Outlasting your dog — be persistent
Knowing to avoid “no”
Repeating commands
Finding the Right Food for Your Dog
Evaluating Buddy’s current food
Understanding the nutrients your dog needs
Making choices as to how to feed Buddy
Transferring Buddy to his new diet
Sizing up supplements
Exploring Common Health Issues that Affect Behavior and Training
Here comes that needle again: Examining vaccination issues
Uncovering the rise in doggy hypothyroidism
The bone crusher: “Oh, my aching back”
Quelling fear, anxiety, and other conditions with homeopathy
Treating chronic conditions with acupuncture
Choosing the Right Training Leash and Collar
Deciding on a leash
Selecting a collar
Readying a Reward: Treats Are Your Training Buddies
Picking the ideal tasty treat
Opting for toys when food treats don’t work
Other Equipment to Consider
Using head halters
Going for a body harness
Understanding Your Puppy’s Early Development
Birth to 7 weeks
Getting to know everyone: Weeks 7–12
Suddenly he’s afraid: Weeks 8–12
Now he wants to leave home: Beyond 12 weeks
Surviving the juvenile flakies
Determining what to do when puppy discovers sex
Meeting the mature adult when your dog finally grows up
Spaying or Neutering to Help with Behavior and Training
Heeding the advantages
Acknowledging the disadvantages
Knowing when to spay or neuter
Preparing for Puppy’s Arrival
Puppy’s home at home: Readying a crate
Puppy’s menu: Selecting a proper diet and set of dishes
Puppy’s “clothes”
Puppy’s toys
Bringing Puppy Home — Now What?
Getting Buddy situated in his new home
Introducing puppies and kids
Meeting resident pets
Tending to his potty needs
Deciding where your puppy should sleep
Starting Buddy’s Education
Name recognition
Getting your puppy used to his duds
Training for grooming
Solving Perplexing Puppy Problems
Helping Buddy Get Used to His Crate
Establishing a Daily Feeding and Elimination Schedule
Designating a Regular Toilet Area
Handling Accidents Appropriately
Dealing with Different Situations
What to do about an apartment dog
Mastering Some Fundamentals: Sit, Down, Stay, and Leave It
Sit! Good Boy
Getting Buddy into a sitting position
Sitting on command
Introducing Down Commands
Warming up with the Long Down exercise
Teaching the Down on command
Go lie down, doggy!
Staying in Place
Doing the Sit-Stay
Dashing your dog’s dashing habits: Door and stair manners
Leave It: Getting Your Dog to Leave Stuff Alone
Canine Cruise Control: Walking on Leash and Coming When Called
Walking Your Dog
Born to pull: Teaching Buddy to respect the leash
Making it real: Adding distractions
Winning the Game of Coming When Called
Teaching the Come command
Adding distractions
Advancing to off-leash distractions
Adding the Touch command
Preventing Bad Habits
Good exercise
Good company
Good health
Good nutrition
Good training
Handling Your Dog’s Objectionable Behavior
Tolerating your dog’s behavior problems
Trying to solve your dog’s behavior problems
When all else fails: Finding a new home for your dog
Teaching Buddy to Keep All Four on the Floor
Trying out some basic approaches
Using Sit and Stay
Putting an End to Counter Surfing
Quieting the Incessant Barker
Barking as a response to a stimulus
Barking for attention
Barking when someone comes to the door
Contending with Chewing — The Nonfood Variety
I’m teething! Examining the physiological need to chew
Dealing with a Digger
Managing Marking Behavior
Starting on the Right Paw with the AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy Program
Getting to know the Responsible Dog Owner’s Pledge
Exercise requirements: What to expect during the test
Preparing to take the test
Becoming familiar with the do’s and don’ts of taking the test
Requirements for Pre-Novice
The Novice class: What’s expected from you and Buddy
First Things First: Teaching the Ready! Command
Using Control Position
Working through the sequences of the Ready! command
Heeling Despite Distractions
Helping your dog heel in new places
Using a distracter while you’re heeling
Let’s Dance, Buddy: Heel On Leash
The halt
Changes of pace and turns
Putting a Twist on Things: Teaching the Figure 8
Preparing Buddy for the Figure 8
Introducing Buddy to the actual Figure 8
Doing the perfect Figure 8
Your Dog Isn’t an Elephant: Reinforcing Training
You’re Getting a Check-Up: Preparing for the Stand for Examination
Introducing the Stand command
Teaching Buddy to stand still
Working on the Stand-Stay command
Leaving Buddy in a Stand-Stay
Getting Buddy familiar with the Return
Preparing Buddy for the actual examination
Heeling Off Leash
Transitioning to Heeling Off Leash
Successfully getting off leash
Mastering the Recall
Stay
Come with distractions
Front
Finish
Training for the Group Exercises
Setting up self-generated distractions
Increasing the level of difficulty
Go Fetch! Explaining the Steps to Successful Retrieving
Teaching the Take It command
Showing Buddy the Hold It and Give commands
Helping your dog retrieve on command
Learning to hold and reach for the object
Walking while holding the dumbbell
Training Buddy for the pick-up
Learning to bring it back
Putting it all together
Polishing and Perfecting the Retrieve
Wait for it: Testing your dog’s patience
Retrieving with distractions
Understanding Aggression
What is aggressive behavior?
Looking at the causes of aggression
Managing a Dog’s Aggression — Prey, Pack, Fight, and Flight Drives
Dealing with aggression from dogs high in prey drive
Handling aggression from dogs high in defense drive
Controlling aggression from dogs high in pack drive
Coping with Aggression around the Food Bowl
Dealing with Fear-Biters
Fear of Loud Noises and Thunder
Coping with Separation Anxiety
Testing the desensitizing approach
Trying the D.A.P. approach
Looking at some other options
Soiling the House
Dribbling and Submissive Wetting
Taking Buddy on the Road
Getting used to entering the vehicle
Staying put before exiting the vehicle
Preparing for your road trip
Easing carsickness
Going to Doggie Daycare
Minding Your Manners at the Dog Park
Keeping Your Canine Calm at the Vet’s Office
Being Patient with the Rescue Dog
Old Gray Muzzle: Exploring the Signs of Aging in Dog Years
Teaching Exercises to Keep Buddy’s Mind and Body Sharp
Begging
Crawling
Walking backward
Doing neck and head stretches
Using the coffee table stretch
Walking, sitting, and downing
Swimming
Applying mental stimulation
Taking Care of Your Older Dog’s Health and Nutrition Needs
Maintaining Buddy’s slim and trim figure with a satisfying diet
Making life easier with supplements
Keeping up with Grooming
Bringing Home a Puppy to Help Rejuvenate Buddy
Looking Into Dog Beds, Ramps, Wheelchairs, and Carts
Making Buddy cozy: Beds
Making heights more manageable with ramps
Helping the handicapped dog: Wheelchairs and carts
Going to Obedience Training Class
Good obedience training class criteria
Puppy classes
Advanced classes
Hiring a Private Trainer
Enjoying the Great Dog Training Camp Adventure
Procrastinating on Basic Training
Buying into Attention-Seeking Behavior
Forgetting to Release Your Dog from a Stay
Eliminating Rewards Too Soon
Using Your Dog’s Name as a Command
Having to Repeat Commands away from Home
Punishing Your Dog When He Comes to You
Running After Your Dog
Expecting Too Much Too Quickly
Ignoring the Principle of Consistency
Agility Events
Tracking Titles
Field Trials and Hunting Tests
Earthdog Trials
Lure Coursing
Schutzhund Training
Flyball Competitions
Freestyle Performances
Dock Diving
Working as a Service Dog
Detection dogs
Assistance dogs
Companions
Why Do Dogs Insist on Jumping on People?
Why Do Male Dogs Lift Their Legs So Often?
Why Do Dogs Mount Each Other?
Why Do Dogs Like to Chase Things?
Why Do Dogs Roll in Disgusting Things?
Why Do Dogs Eat Weeds or Grass?
Why Do Dogs Hump Humans’ Legs?
Why Do Dogs Scoot on Their Rear Ends?
Why Do Dogs Circle Before Lying Down?
Shake and High Five
The Other One
Roll Over
Play Dead
Find Mine
Jumping through a Hoop and Your Arms
Don’t Cross This Line
You Have Food on Your Nose
Take a Bow
Index

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