Globe Pequot / Lyons Press
Pages: 224
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-59228-564-8 • Paperback • November 2004 • $14.95 • (£11.95)
KRISTA CANTRELL is a cognitive animal behaviorist and prize-winning agility trainer who practices positive, dog-friendly, reward-based training methods. She lives in Arizona with her husband and their dogs, cats, and horses.
1) Stop, Look, Listen, Sniff, and Move: Exploring the Mind-Body Connection
2) A Dog is a Dog, Is a Dog...
3) How Easily Do Dogs Learn? Fifteen Exercises to Understand Your Dog's Mind and Four Exercises to Understand Your Influence.
4) Seven Qualities of Successful Dog Handlers
5) Play Smart: Happy Dogs Learn Faster
6) Removing the Mystery from Dog Training
7) Five Minutes a Day: Focus, Sit, Down, Walk, Stay, Come, Stand
8) Solve Behavior Programs: Barking, Biting, Chewing, Digging, Fear Responses, House Soiling, Hyperactivity, Ignores You, Jumping, Leash Pulling
9)Friends for Life
10) Equipment
"A unique work that moves beyond training dogs to teaching them and developing a human-dog bond that really works." - Library Journal
"Gives dog-lovers a clear view into the minds of their canine pals, and shows how to correct behavioral problems in a loving, caring way."
--Jonathan Balcombe, Humane Society of the United States
"A delightfully unique and eclectic, dog-friendly training book that examines all aspects of maximizing your relationship with your dog."
--Ian Dunbar, author of How to Teach a New Dog Old Tricks
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