Positive Training for Aggressive and Reactive Dogs: Proven Techniques to Help Your Dog Overcome Fear and Anxiety - Couverture souple

Phenix, Annie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1621871983 ISBN 13 : 9781621871989

Editeur : Companion House, 2023

Synopsis

Do you have an aggressive or reactive dog? Learn how turn your dog's behavior around!

• Training program and plans to help hopeless dog owners to manage and rehabilitate a reactive or aggressive dog
• Real stories and case studies plus interviews with top dog trainers, veterinarians, and behaviorists
• The author's experiences, successes, and heartbreaks with her own aggressive and fearful dogs
• Positive reinforcement, its history, and the qualities of a good dog trainer
• Proper socialization and good breeding, and their importance in forming a dog's adult personality and temperament
• Why punishment fails and negative training only worsens a dog's inappropriate behavior and destroys the human-canine bond

Help your dog recover from fear, anxiety, and aggression!

This professional and practical guide gives hope to dog owners trying to eliminate aggression, barking, timidity, fear, and reactivity in their dogs. A wide range of cruelty-free and positive behavior training methods and exercises are provided with step-by-step instructions and illustrations to rehabilitate problem behaviors. Also included are real-life case studies from dog owners detailing the extreme measures they've taken to manage their dogs' behavior around others, and interviews with top trainers, behaviorists, and veterinarians.

With detailed sections covering an array of topics and how-to instruction — from the five must-have skills your dog needs to learn to the top five ways professional trainers change unwanted behaviors — this resource covers a ton of ground to help your dog develop and live a better life with you.

Author Leann Phenix is an industry-leading expert dog trainer, owner of Phenix Dogs, resident dog trainer and writer at Dogster, certified AKC Canine Good Citizen Evaluator, member of the Pet Professional Guild, and author of the first edition of this book, The Midnight Dog Walkers, which was nominated as the best behavior book in 2016 by Dog Writers Association of America. What is the Midnight Dog Walkers' Club? If you have a reactive or aggressive dog, and you find yourself walking them in the middle of the night or at the break of dawn to avoid meeting other people and dogs, you are already a member of this exclusive club to which nobody wants to belong.

The pandemic caused a surge in rescue dog adoptions, which has led to many dog owners seeking professional help to solve behavioral issues. If you're seeking professional guidance to overcome problematic habits present in your rescue dog, or to learn how to train an aggressive dog, Positive Training for Aggressive and Reactive Dogs is here to help!

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Annie Phenix: Annie Phenix, CPDT-KA, is a professional force-free dog trainer from Durango, Colorado, specializing in canine behavior. Phenix is a popular writer for Dogster and BARKS magazines, and she is the resident trainer for Dogster.com. She is an award-winning journalist with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin. She was named the Austin Communicator of the Year by Women in Communication in 2000.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Companion House
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1621871983
• ISBN 13: 9781621871989
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible