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101 Dog Tricks: Step by Step Activities to Engage, Challenge, and Bond with Your Dog
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| practical book, stripped of unnecessary words | |
|  | Instead of wasting a lot of ink and reader time with endless chapters of personal philosophy, the author gives you the basics, e.g., teaching fetch: slice a 1" hole in a tennis ball with a boxcutter, put treats into tennis ball, throw tennis ball, when dog returns with tennis ball, squeeze open and remove treats. The sooner the dog returns with the ball, the sooner he gets the treat. If you've never trained a puppy you might want to grab a more standard and comprehensive book from the library, but if I had to choose just one dog training book (and I took about 20 out of the library!) it would be this one.
| | What about clicker training? | |
| | The book jacket, which helpfully explains that you don't need special tools as in clicker training, put me off immediately. Since you can click with your tongue or just say "yes!", you don't need special tools with clicker training either. To brush off the huge advance in dog training that has been made through clicker training with such a slighting reference makes me doubt how qualified the author is. I read a bit further, hoping to at least find an allusion to positive reinforcement, and didn't find it. Thanks but no thanks. I'm not going to put my money into an expensive "coffee table" book that ignores the fantastic work of trainers like Karen Pryor and Pat Miller.
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| | It's not bad but I would have preferred more detailed info on training and troubleshooting rather than an attempt to cram 101 tricks into a book. It is a good book to leave on the coffee table though as people will laugh at the silly tricks being taught. My guests try to get me to attempt the trick where I somersault and dog leaps over me. Many of the tricks require props to be purchased.
| | | This is one of the best books on dog training I've ever read. What really makes it work is the little thumbnail photos showing the hand signals that go with each of the commands. I'm attempting to teach my puppy dog-dancing or canine freestyle, and this book is going to be invaluable to me in putting together a unique routine. Great pictures, great tricks and a great book. Well done!
| | | This is a great book for those that can't get to obedience classes or need more than the class can provide. There are easy tricks all the way up to expert with step by step instructions. I have already taught my dog several tricks. There a few expert that I have no interest in such as show dog tricks, but there are so many that have true purpose. There are basic tricks like sit, stay, come and so forth. Then fun ones like pick up your toys and get the newspaper. There are pictures along with the instructions which really help.
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