Don't Leave Me! Step-by-Step Help for Your Dog's Separation Anxiety

by Nicole Wilde

Overview

For owners, trainers, rescuers and anyone who wishes to help dogs with this often challenging problem. The book is a comprehensive, interactive workbook that offers creative solutions, cutting-edge therapies, and allows owners to customize a program for their individual dog.

Topics include:

- The role of management, nutrition, and exercise
- Whether pharmacological intervention might help
- Ways to build canine confidence
- Creative management solutions
- Step-by-step behavior modification protocols
- Alternative therapies that can prove invaluable
- How to put it all together in a customized plan

Also included are real-life stories from experts telling how they handled separation issues in their clients' dogs and their own dogs.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012638090
Publisher:	Phantom Publishing
Publication date:	01/11/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	149
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Nicole Wilde is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer and internationally recognized author and lecturer. Her nine books include So You Want to be a Dog Trainer, Help for Your Fearful Dog, and Don’t Leave Me! Step-by-Step Help for Your Dog’s Separation Anxiety (www.phantompub.com). In addition to working with dogs, Nicole has worked with wolves and wolf hybrids for over fifteen years and is considered an expert in the field. She is on the advisory board of the Companion Animal Sciences Institute, the educational branch for the International Institute for Applied Companion Animal Behavior, and an Advisory Board member for the Association of Animal Behavior Professionals. Nicole writes an Ask the Expert column for Modern Dog Magazine, blogs for Dog Star Daily, Victoria Stilwell’s Positively blog, and her own site, Wilde About Dogs (wildewmn.wordpress.com).

Editorial Reviews

[Don’t Leave Me] does a good job of defining the problem and suggesting a variety of treatment methods. . . . overall this is a great addition to either a trainer’s resources or a good book for people whose dogs suffer when they are left alone.

Patricia McConnell, Ph.D.