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Playtraining Your Dog
Playtraining Your Dog | Patricia Gail Burnham
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At last, an inexpensive paperback edition of a book that has been acclaimed as one of the most useful and reliable guides to training your dog. Obedience training does not have to resemble Marine boot camp, with the dog as the recruit and the trainer as the drill instructor. Nor does it have to be work. Rather, as the title of this comprehensive guide suggests, it can be playful fun for both -- with a few rules thrown in to shape the game itno an obedience exercise. Playtraining Your Dog provides an alternative to the violence that conventional training methods inflict on the minds and bodies of dogs. Using widely known, standardized exercises from the American Kennel Club, and written in a clear, informative style, this book contributes to realizing the full potential of both the dog and the dog/owner relationship. Topics covered include: - instructors & training classes - training time - motivation - advice for showing a dog - cues & body language Playtraining Your Dog is an essential addtion to every dog-owner's -- and dog-lover's -- library.
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Playtraining Your Dog | Patricia Gail Burnham
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For @Ashley_Nicoletto ...as promised, giant tennis balls 🎾 ! 95 pound giant Golden Retriever, regular tennis ball & one of my favorite dog training books provided to show scale...these guys are MASSIVE! 😂 Also, this dog training book is amazing for anyone looking to train non-traditional type of dogs on formal obedience. Ignore the Golden on the cover...the author (who is from my hometown in CA) trains greyhounds to be champion obedience dogs.

Alfoster Where in CA? My friend just adopted a greyhound! 8y
GlitteryOtters @Alfoster this was in my old hometown of Fair Oaks, near Sacramento. I don't know if she still has a pack of greyhounds, but she used to when I lived there in high school and college, and I know we saw her with them in summers before I moved there, when I used to go and visit my mom & stepdad during school breaks. I know she had them all through the 80s & 90s, but as she is older now, not sure if she is still as active with formal dog training 8y
Alfoster @GlitteryOtters Thanks! We're in San Diego. I'll get her the book though! 8y
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Ashley_Nicoletto These are amazing!! 8y
GlitteryOtters Also, for anyone interested, the techniques of this book were extremely helpful for training a very smart & stubborn Ridgeback/shepherd mix. I used a lot of the techniques both in formal (as in, AKC competition) obedience training and agility training. This book helped us stay sane during her adolescent & young adult years when she was so smart, so energetic & so athletic and needed a job. Structured training worked wonders for her. 8y
GlitteryOtters @Ashley_Nicoletto we hit the jackpot this week...our grocery store put the giant balls on clearance. We bought out their entire stock (and immediately hid most of them in basement shelves as this poor ball-mad dog would have gone insane if suddenly he saw two dozen giant tennis balls 😂😂 8y
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