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In this book the author, a well-known dog trainer takes on the topic of training for the first time, by explaining the importance of balance as the foundation for a healthy relationship between you and your dog. In order to provide a variety of training options, he calls upon some of the foremost experts in the field to offer their advice so that you can find the perfect approach that works for you and your dog through a variety of methods. Filled...
22) Puppy love
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An escapist, feel-good contemporary romance full to the brim of great banter and beloved tropes: a grumpy hero, a sunshiney heroine, delicious forced proximity, and enough puppies to make anyone smile.
When Sophie Vasquez and her sisters dreamed up Puppy Promise—their service puppy training school—it was supposed to be her chance to bring some good into the world. But how can she expect to do anything when no one will
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"Jake's puppy Kamik is growing quickly, but the dog isn't becoming any easier to handle. All Jake wants is to raise his puppy into a strong, fast sled dog, but Kamik is far from ready to pull a sled with a dog team. With some advice and a little help from his grandmother, Jake learns basic principles of how to begin training a dog to pull. Kamik finally has his first sled, and he and Jake can finally begin exploring the tundra together. But Jake and...
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In the updated edition of this best-seller, The Dog Whisperer, Paul Owens offers more in-depth dog training protocols with additional notes, tips and problem-solving which make Paul's Three-Step-Process of shaping dog behaviors even more accessible. In addition to the best-selling nonviolent training features from the previous edition, this new edition includes:
• Updated material on the power of non-force dog training
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...28) Perfectly Martha
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Martha speaks (Picture books) volume 6
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Martha discovers how the Perfect Pup Institute turns dogs into obedient robots and then does something about it.
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Long known as a dog coach to the stars, Tamar Geller changed the way Americans relate to their dogs with her bestselling book The Loved Dog. Her approach is simple and down-to-earth. Instead of utilizing negative and often painful feedback, Tamar recommends love, play, and mutual respect as the keys to a happy home for dog and human alike. Now, Tamar makes her Loved Dog (TM) Method accessible for everyone with this day-by-day guide that will lead...
30) Raising Lumie
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"Olive Hudson desperately wants a dog. But that doesn't seem to be a possibility right now. Newly orphaned, she's moving in with the half sister she hardly knows and their life is too chaotic to include a dog. But then something wonderful happens: Olive gets a chance to raise Lumie, a guide dog puppy. Discipline. Rules. Lots of hugs. Only the best of the best puppies continue on to become guide dogs, and of course Olive wants Lumie to be chosen. But...
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Boxcar children volume 53
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When they help out at a guide dog training school, the Alden children meet several people who seem obsessed with a particular dog named Ginger.
33) Nicki
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When ten-year-old Nicki agrees to take over the training of Sprocket, a service dog, it is just one more thing in her overly full schedule, but much to her surprise, dog training teaches Nicki a valuable skill--how to stand up for herself. Includes photographs and essay on training service dogs.
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"Just how smart is my dog?" Try draping a towel over his head and timing his escape. "Why does she prefer the toilet to her bowl?" Because it's always full and always cool; can you blame her? Animal behavior expert Arden Moore answers scores of questions on dog ownership and psychology, from grooming and fleas to obedience training and puppy love. This book contains everything the new, curious, or frustrated pet owner needs to know to smooth out the...
37) Bingo
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Puppy place. Main series volume 65
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Bingo is a lab mix. He's also blind. Bingo can learn to cope, but he needs Lizzie's help, and he just might need a friend, too. By the end of the story Bingo will have his very own guide dog! -- from publisher's website.
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Chaser has a way with words. She knows over a thousand of them -- more than any other animal of any species except humans. And she and her owner/trainer, retired psychologist John Pilley, have now demonstrated her ability to understand sentences with multiple elements of grammar and to learn new behaviors by imitation. John's work with Chaser offers a fresh perspective on what's possible in the relationship between a dog and a human.
40) Pig the rebel
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Pig the pug volume 10
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It is Pig the Pug versus obedience school in this rhyming story of a dog's rebellion and downfall.
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