Publisher Description

The Joy of Dog Training invites you to focus on 30 foundational tricks and to track and gauge your progress. The interactive program will enhance not only your dogs performance, but also your overall relationship with your dog. With this workbook, learn the core concepts of dog training, and apply those concepts in training 30 different tricks. As you work from level to level, you will master the key elements of dog training-timing, technique, motivation, and building on known behaviours-as you achieve a stronger bond with your dog.

Each section concludes with review quizzes and prompts to re-evaluate your knowledge, your dogs progress, and your relationship. The tricks are explained with step-by-step instructional text and photos, with space for notes and logging your progress, and range from basic (Sit, Shake Hands, Paws Up) to advanced (Newspaper Delivery, Tidy Up Your Toys, Get a Soda from the Fridge). With this complete curriculum in dog tricks, you will establish a conscious and consistent pattern of relating to your dog in a meaningful partnership based on trust, communication, and respect.

Also by Kyra Sundance, learn to do even more with your dog with: 101 Dog Tricks; The Dog Tricks and Training Workbook; 51 Puppy Tricks; 10-Minute Dog Training Games; 101 Dog Tricks, Kids Edition; Dog Training 101; The Pocket Guide to Dog Tricks; and Kyra's Canine Conditioning.

Author Biography

Kyra Sundance is a world-renowned dog trainer, lecturer, and internationally best-selling author of 101 Dog Tricks: Step by Step Activities to Engage, Challenge and Bond with Your Dog. With over a million copies in print, Kyra's award-winning books, kits, and DVDs have inspired dog owners worldwide to develop fun and rewarding relationships with their dogs. Her other books include Dog Training 101, The Dog Tricks and Training Workbook, Kyra's Canine Conditioning, 51 Puppy Tricks, 10-Minute Dog Training Games, The Pocket Guide to Dog Tricks, and 101 Dog Tricks, Kids Edition.

Honed through decades of professional experience, Kyra's easy step-by-step training methods are the most effective and humane way to train. Her positive methods foster confident, happy dogs who are motivated to do the right thing, rather than fearful of making a mistake.

As professional performers, Kyra and her Weimaraners starred in shows for the king of Morocco, Disney's Hollywood stage shows, circuses, NBA halftime shows, on The Tonight Show, Ellen, Animal Planet, in movies, and in their own television series. Kyra is a professional set trainer for movie dogs, and is nationally ranked in competitive dog sports. She presents workshops around the world on dog tricks and canine conditioning.Kyra is CEO of "Do More With Your Dog!" trick dog titling organisation; the "National Trick Dog championships"; and Chair of the "Trick Dog Expo."Kyra lives in Lancaster, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction
TIMING
THE BASIS OF ANIMAL TRAINING
Get Prepared with Training Tools
Lesson 1 Reward at the Correct Time PRACTICE " Touch My Hand
Lesson 2 Reward in the Correct Position PRACTICE " Sit
Lesson 3 Reward Markers & Clickers PRACTICE " Touch a Target Disc
Lesson 4 Progression PRACTICE " Paws in a Box
Lesson 5 Regression PRACTICE " Send to a Mark Is Your Dog Right-Pawed or Left-Pawed?
Lesson 6 Teach Verbal Cues PRACTICE " Introduce a Verbal Cue
Lesson 7 Visual Guide to Hand Signals
 
TECHNIQUE
THE SIX TOOLS IN OUR TOOLBOX
The Six Ways to Elicit a Behavior
Lesson 8 Luring PRACTICE " Spin Circles PRACTICE " Paws Up
Lesson 9 Targeting PRACTICE " Touch a Target Stick Build on Known Behaviors PRACTICE " Down
Lesson 10 Modeling PRACTICE " Stay in a Square
Lesson 11 Mimicking PRACTICE " Jump over a Bar
Lesson 12 Capturing PRACTICE " Speak
Lesson 13 Shaping PRACTICE " Pick Up a Toy
 
MOTIVATION
PRINCIPLES OF POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT
You Owe This to Your Dog
Lesson 14 Operant Conditioning - The Motivation Quadrants
Lesson 15 Positive Reinforcement PRACTICE " Which Hand Holds the Treat? Train Joyfully!
Lesson 16 Reward Success; Ignore the Rest PRACTICE " Cup and Ball Game
Lesson 17 Learning Occurs with Successes PRACTICE " Take a Bow PRACTICE " Retrieve an Object
Lesson 18 Jackpot Rewards
Lesson 19 Breed Motivation
Lesson 20 Nonfood Rewards PRACTICE " Ring a Bell to Go Out
 
SELF-CONTROL
TECHNIQUES TO TURN OFF FRUSTRATION
Lesson 21 Impulse Control PRACTICE " Loose-Leash Walking
Lesson 22 Extinction
Lesson 23 Positive Redirection
Lesson 24 Home Base PRACTICE " Send/Stay on Platform
 
ENRICHMENT
THE SIX COMPONENTS OF JOY
Lesson 25 Puzzle Challenges
Lesson 26 Exploration
Lesson 27 Choice
Lesson 28 Desire to Be Loved
Lesson 29 Order
Lesson 30 Sense of Humor and Play
 

Long Description

The Joy of Dog Training invites you to focus on 30 foundational tricks and to track and gauge your progress. The interactive program will enhance not only your dogs performance, but also your overall relationship with your dog. With this workbook, learn the core concepts of dog training, and apply those concepts in training 30 different tricks. As you work from level to level, you will master the key elements of dog training-timing, technique, motivation, and building on known behaviours-as you achieve a stronger bond with your dog. Each section concludes with review quizzes and prompts to re-evaluate your knowledge, your dogs progress, and your relationship. The tricks are explained with step-by-step instructional text and photos, with space for notes and logging your progress, and range from basic (Sit, Shake Hands, Paws Up) to advanced (Newspaper Delivery, Tidy Up Your Toys, Get a Soda from the Fridge). With this complete curriculum in dog tricks, you will establish a conscious and consistent pattern of relating to your dog in a meaningful partnership based on trust, communication, and respect. Also by Kyra Sundance, learn to do even more with your dog with: 101 Dog Tricks ; The Dog Tricks and Training Workbook ; 51 Puppy Tricks ; 10-Minute Dog Training Games ; 101 Dog Tricks, Kids Edition ; Dog Training 101 ; The Pocket Guide to Dog Tricks ; and Kyra's Canine Conditionin g.

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