Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Introduction
  • About This Book
  • Foolish Assumptions
  • Icons Used in This Book
  • Where to Go from Here
• Part 1: Setting the Stage for Successful Training
  • Chapter 1: Dog Training: The Key to Your Dog’s Safety and Your Sanity
    • Understanding Why You’re Training Buddy: To Do Something or Not to Do Something
    • Identifying a Well-Trained Dog
    • Selecting a Training Model
    • Identifying Six Basic Commands Every Dog Needs to Know
    • Recognizing Factors that Influence Success
    • Oh, the Places You and Your Pooch Can Go: Beyond the Basics
    • An Exercise to Get You and Your Pooch Started
  • Chapter 2: Getting to Know Your Dog and How He Perceives the World
    • Determining What Motivates You and Your Dog
    • Being Aware of Your Dog’s Body Language
    • Recognizing Your Dog’s Instinctive Behaviors
    • Determining Your Dog’s Personality Profile
    • Deciding How You Want Buddy to Act
    • Remembering Who’s Training Whom
  • Chapter 3: Developing Training Savvy
    • Managing the Dog Within
    • Stressing the Effects of Stress
    • Managing Your Dog’s Environment
    • Understanding the “You” Factor
  • Chapter 4: Understanding the Vital Role That Nutrition and Health Play in Training
    • Finding the Right Food for Buddy
    • Understanding the Nutrients Your Dog Needs
    • Making Choices about How to Feed Buddy
    • Exploring Common Health Issues That Affect Behavior and Training
  • Chapter 5: Gearing Up for Training Success
    • Choosing the Right Training Leash and Collar
    • Readying a Reward: Treats Are Your Training Buddies
    • Considering Other Equipment You Can Use
• Part 2: Performing Puppy Preliminaries
  • Chapter 6: Bringing Your Puppy Home: What You Need to Know
    • Preparing for Puppy’s Arrival
    • Bringing Puppy Home — Now What?
    • Starting Buddy’s Education
    • Solving Perplexing Puppy Problems
  • Chapter 7: Surviving Your Puppy’s Critical Growth Periods
    • Understanding Your Puppy’s Early Development
    • The Terrible Twos: Managing the Adolescent from 4 Months to 2 Years
    • Spaying or Neutering to Help with Behavior and Training
• Part 3: Tackling Training Basics
  • Chapter 8: The Ins and Outs of Housetraining
    • Helping Buddy Get Used to His Crate
    • Training a Dog to Eliminate Outside
    • Establishing a Regular Feeding and Elimination Schedule
    • Designating a Regular Toilet Area
    • When Accidents Happen — Knowing What to Do
    • Using an Exercise Pen for Housetraining
  • Chapter 9: Focusing on Some Basic Training Commands
    • Training for Attention: Praise Versus Petting
    • Practicing Name Recognition
    • Teaching Your Dog the Touch Command
    • Greeting with the Hello Command
    • Leave It: Getting Your Dog to Leave Stuff Alone
  • Chapter 10: Coming and Going: Two Essential Commands to Teach Buddy
    • Understanding the Importance of Leadership: Okay Is the Word
    • Teaching Your Dog to Come When Called
    • Training Your Dog to Handle Distractions
    • Focusing on the Opposite of Come — Go
  • Chapter 11: Mastering Some Fundamentals: Sit, Down, and Stay
    • Understanding Why Sit Is So Important
    • Introducing Down and Its Commands
    • Training Your Dog Sit and Down Simultaneously
    • Warming Up with the Long-Down Exercise
    • Staying in Place: Sit-Stay and Down-Stay
  • Chapter 12: Going for a Pleasant Walk
    • Using the Right Leash and Collar When Walking Your Dog
    • Taking a Pleasure Walk with Your Dog
    • Teaching Buddy How to Heel at Your Side
    • Adding Distractions
  • Chapter 13: Going to Bed and All of Its Practical Uses
    • Selecting a Bed for Your Dog
    • Deciphering How You Want to Use the Command
    • Training Buddy the Go to Your Bed Command
  • Chapter 14: Getting In, Out, On, and Off and Mastering Door and Stairs Manners
    • Getting In and Out
    • Getting On and Off
    • Training Door Manners
    • Teaching Stairs Manners
  • Chapter 15: Dealing with Common Doggie Don’ts
    • Preventing Bad Habits — The Five General Prescriptions for Good Behavior
    • Handling Your Dog’s Objectionable Behavior
    • Teaching Buddy to Keep All Four on the Floor
    • Putting an End to Counter Surfing — Leave It
    • Quieting the Incessant Barker
    • Contending with Chewing — The Nonfood Variety
    • Dealing with a Digger
    • Managing Marking Behavior
• Part 4: Taking Training to the Next Level
  • Chapter 16: Retrieving: Time to Fetch
    • Introducing the Common Retrieving Commands to Your Natural Retriever
    • Explaining the Basics of Retrieving
    • Polishing and Perfecting the Retrieve
  • Chapter 17: Trick Training for Fun
    • Shake and High Five
    • Find the Pea under the Right Cup
    • Hide in a Box
    • Pick a Hand
    • Play Shy
    • Roll Over
    • Play Dead
    • Find Mine
    • Jump through a Hoop
    • You Have Food on Your Nose
    • Take a Bow
    • Dog Catcher/Stranger Trick
  • Chapter 18: Training for Fun and Competition
    • Understanding the System: Your Road Map to the Companion Dog Title
    • First Things First: Teaching the Ready! Command
    • Heeling Despite Distractions
    • Let’s Dance, Buddy: Heel On and Then Off Leash
    • Putting a Twist on Things: Teaching the Figure 8
    • Your Dog Isn’t an Elephant: Reinforcing Training
  • Chapter 19: Completing the Companion Dog Title
    • You’re Getting a Check-Up: Preparing for the Stand for Examination
    • Heeling Off Leash
    • Mastering the Recall
    • Training for the Group Stay Exercises
• Part 5: Handling Special Situations
  • Chapter 20: Addressing Aggression
    • Understanding Aggression
    • Managing a Dog’s Aggression — Prey, Pack, Defense Drives
    • Coping with Aggression around the Food Bowl
    • Dealing with Fear-Biters
    • Handling Aggression in Different Circumstances
  • Chapter 21: Helping Buddy Handle Special Situations
    • Reacting to Loud Noises and Thunder
    • Coping with Separation Anxiety
    • Soiling the House
    • Dribbling and Submissive Wetting
    • Taking Buddy on the Road
    • 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
  • Chapter 22: Keeping Your Senior Dog Young: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
    • Old Gray Muzzle: Exploring the Signs of Aging in Dog Years
    • Teaching Exercises to Keep Buddy’s Mind and Body Sharp
    • Taking Care of Your Older Dog’s Health and Nutrition Needs
    • Keeping Up with Grooming
    • Bringing Home a Puppy to Help Rejuvenate Buddy
    • Looking Into Dog Beds, Ramps, Wheelchairs, and Carts
  • Chapter 23: Supplementing Your Training Efforts with Expert Help
    • Going to Obedience Training Class
    • Hiring a Private Trainer
    • Sending Buddy to a Board and Train
• Part 6: The Part of Tens
  • Chapter 24: Ten Training Traps and How to Avoid Them
    • 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
  • Chapter 25: Ten Fun and Exciting Sporting Activities
    • Agility Events
    • Tracking Titles
    • Barn Hunt AKC
    • Lure Coursing
    • Schutzhund Training
    • Flyball Competitions
    • Freestyle Performances
    • Dock Diving Dogs
    • Detection Dogs or Scent Work
    • Working as a Service Dog
  • Chapter 26: Ten Reasons Dogs Do What They Do
    • Why Do Dogs Insist on Jumping on People?
    • Why Do Dogs Sniff Parts of Your Anatomy That You’d Prefer They Didn’t?
    • 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?
• Index
• About the Authors
• Connect with Dummies
• End User License Agreement

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