Dog Training Books

In your quest for canine knowledge you will find a myriad of literature. Be wary as the bookstores are littered with books that advocate harsh training methods and can ruin your perfectly sound tempered dog. You will have a lot more success if you adopt positive training methods, and learn about the complexities of the canine mind. Always remember, you can take a well trained dog anywhere!

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Click to Calm: Healing the Aggressive Dog

By Emma Parsons, B.A., A.P.D.T.

When Emma Parsons, professional trainer and canine behavior consultant, discovered that her own prized Golden Retriever, Ben, was aggressive toward other dogs, and that traditional remedies took his reactivity to nightmarish levels, she turned to clicker training. In the process, Parsons developed innovative and effective strategies to calm, alter, and re-shape Ben’s aggressive displays. Her clicker-based strategies have since helped many of her clients successfully reduce—and even erase—their dogs’ reactivity to both dogs and humans.

With more than 40 clear exercises presented in an easy-to-follow “training recipe” format, Click to Calm teaches both pet owners and experienced trainers how to:

• desensitize your dog to approaching stranger dogs
• allow you to grab his collar without snapping
• perform canine calming signals, instead of aggressive displays, on cue
  turn and give you eye contact whenever another dog approaches, or you tighten on the leash
• how to use your own body language when under stress as a cue for your dog to remain calm
• and many more creative and effective uses of managing behavior through clicker training

Parsons discusses how aggression is a behavior that, like any canine behavior, can be re-shaped with thoughtful use of marker signal and positive reinforcement. She explains how giving a previously fearful dog the empowerment of learning how to earn a click and a reward can switch their jitters to joy. Full of remarkable insights and practical information, Click to Calm holds the answers for any owner who struggles with this most challenging behavior problem.

Click for Joy

By Melissa C. Alexander

Everywhere dogs and their people gather, clicking - and questions about clicker training - can be heard. Now Melissa C. Alexander, moderator of the online discussion forum ClickerSolutions, has gathered clear and accurate answers for over one hundred commonly asked questions about clicker training in one essential reference.

Whether you are sorting out the principles and methods of clicking for yourself or need answers for your students, Click for Joy! is the source for facts and advice that you will turn to again and again.

• positive solutions to common problems
• practical instructions to train any behavior to any level of reliability required
• encouragement, advice, and success stories from clicker trainers around the world
• short-term and long-term consequences of controversial training techniques
• clear, easy-to-understand explanations of the science underlying clicker training
• glossary of clicker training terms and concepts
• easy-to-use cross-referencing and index

Clicking With Your Dog

By Peggy Tillman

Teach yourself clicker training with step-by-step pictures! New book makes it easy and fun. 100 behaviors, home-alone fun for dogs, housetraining, cute tricks. Great for kids, seniors. Fun and rewarding, strengthens the human-pet bond.

The Seven Cs: A Guide to Training & Relationships

by Suzanne Clothier

Booklet, 27 pages

Since it first appeared in the Camp Dances With Dogs workbook, this charming little booklet has been a favorite with Suzanne's fans. This humorous, thoughtful look at seven key points of a healthy relationship has even been used as a handout by Dr. Helen Greven during her 1996 lecture for the International Society of Psychodramatists.
Clothier examines these 7 key points of the dog/human relationship: creativity, consistency, communication, congruency, condition, clarity and confidence.
Where else will you find a discussion of dogs & people sprinkled with quotes from Shakespeare, George Burns and Cool Hand Luke?