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SHEEPDOG TRAINING & TRIALS
A COMPLETE GUIDE FOR BORDER COLLIE HANDLERS & ENTHUSIASTS
by Nij Vyas

(2010) 2015 reprint. Quarto (i.e., large) hardback, 208 pages. Colour photographs and colour diagrams.
Fine new unread hardback in dust-wrapper.

The thinking man's guide to sheepdog, and indeed any dog, training, by an expert dog and sheep psychologist.

Nij Vyas is a successful sheepdog trainer, handler and judge with many local and international successes to his credit, individually and as a member of the England Team.

This book gives comprehensive advice and instructions drawn from years of well-informed experience. Vyas's approach is not to baldly tell you what you should be doing - he discusses in detail how he arrived at his methods. This includes case studies of problems he has faced, comparisons of methods used by other trainers and occasional dips into the literature of animal psychology.

"This ...invaluable book describes innovative ways of training sheepdogs and addresses a number of subjects that have not been adequately covered in previous publications, such as working sensitive dogs and dogs lacking in confidence, the 'square movement' method, and the 'concept of opposites'. ...Brimming with practical advice that will help handlers to find solutions to difficult problems. ...In addition, the author considers ways of optimizing a dog's health, energy, fitness and peak performance."

Chapters include: Whether to buy or train your own dogs; Early training; The dominance debate; The passive resistance theory; How dogs think; The importance of scent to dogs; Working with nervous or sensitive dogs; General obedience; The 'pressure on, pressure off' technique; Early training with sheep; Broadening your dog's experience; Advanced training for trials and farmwork; Sheepdog trials; Health and fitness.

The author includes numerous case studies of his treatment of problem dogs, as well as portraits of successful handlers. These include: John Ryan Griffiths, Jim Cropper, Monty Roberts - 'the man who listens to horses', Tim Longton, Aled Owen.

Definitely worth a read, for any dog owner or handler.

ISBN: 9781847971906

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The price of each of book includes £3.50 to cover domestic postage. BUT: We will give you back £2.00 for your 3rd book and each of all subsequent books in the same order, or orders combined into one parcel. No one else on eBay does that!

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UK POSTAGE is built in to the price. It costs £3.50 for the first book, and for the second; after that we refund you £2.00 for each and every book, provided you order them all at one go. We will combine separate orders, but you must contact us immediately to arrange this. If we have already dispatched one of your orders by the time you contact us, unfortunately, we cannot do anything about it.

£3.50 is included in the price of each book to cover postage. If you buy more than two books at the same time, we will refund you £2.00 on the 3rd book, plus £2.00 on each subsequent book: buy 6 books and we will give you £8.00 back, buy 12 books, and we will give you £20.00 back, for example. Refunds will be made only to the PayPal account or card number by which you paid.

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