How to Teach a New Dog Old Tricks: A Sirius Puppy Training Manual

by Ian Dunbar

Overview

Voted the #1 BEST BOOK (1999) by the Association of Pet Dog Trainers - the largest and most influential worldwide association of professional pet dog trainers. Fun training with toys, treats, lures, and rewards. Easy, fun-loving, dog-friendly methods for teaching basic manners off-leash, and for temperament modification and behavior problem troubleshooting. Written from the dog's point of view and emphasizing natural motivational methods to teach your dog to want to do what you want him to do! "How To Teach A New Dog Old Tricks is the best book by dog training's leading genius. The most relevant, important piece ever written on the subject of dog behavior and training. Some fields are lucky enough to be granted a giant: a figure whose contributions inspire awe and are unsurpassable. Ian Dunbar is that in dog behavior. There is no single person on the face of the planet to whom dog trainers and owners (not to mention dogs) owe more." Jean Donaldson (author of The Culture Clash)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781888047066
Publisher:	James & Kenneth, Publishers
Publication date:	10/28/1996
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.35(w) x 8.32(h) x 0.51(d)

Table of Contents

	Dialogue	9
	The Story of SIRIUS	11
	Introduction	15
I.	Temperament Training	29
	Requiem for Rover. Act I	29
	Preventing Dog Bites	35
	Socialization	35
	Handling and Gentling	37
	Bite-Inhibition	39
	Protectiveness	44
	Puppy Parties for People	48
	Educating Children	50
	Omega Rollover	53
	Puppy Parties for Pooches	54
II.	Behavior Modification	57
	Requiem for Rover. Act II	57
	A Dog's a Dog	59
	Housetraining	63
	Crate Training	65
	Chewing	69
	Boody Traps	72
	Digging	73
	Barking	75
	Bark on Command	76
	Jumping-Up	78
III.	Obedience Training	87
	Requiem for Rover. Act III	87
	Sit, Down and Stand	90
	Phasing Out Lures and Rewards	95
	Off! Take it and Thankyou	100
	Settle-Down and Shush	104
	Stays	106
	Following	112
	Come Here	115
	Command Levels	118
	Come and Sit	119
	Heeling Off-Leash	122
	Walking On-Leash	128
	Heeling On-Leash	132
	Not Coming When Called	135
	Play Recalls	141
	Life Rewards	143
	Training Preludes	145
	Training Interludes	146
	Tricks	147
	Fetch	155
	Go To	155
IV.	Training Theory	161
	Increasing Incidence	162
	Stimulus Control	162
	Enticing The Dog	163
	Decreasing Incidence	165
	Binomial Feedback	165
	Reprimands	170
	Rewards	172
	Rewards or Punishments	176
V.	Health	181
	Puppy Shots	182
	Nutrition	183
	Grooming and Examinations	184
	Flea Control	186
	Castration and Spaying	187
	Reading List	193
	Books & Videos	195