What are some excellent books you'd recommend on dog training?

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or websites?

Is this book good?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592533256/ref=wl_it_dp/105-7259723-0589253?ie=UTF8&coliid=IEV0VKSEZU83L&colid=13DWKA5B2QPB8

Answer 1

If you want to rule through force and fear, then yeah, go for the Dog Whisperer. If you prefer to have a good relationship with your dog and rule through mutual respect, I'd recommend something else.
I haven't read the book you show there, so I can't comment on that. A lot of dog training books that give step by step directions are the same, it's your overall philosophy that counts. Any book with step-by-step directions can be adapted to your personal philosophy, it's just ideas on how to get the dog to understand what you want. It's how you go about making them want to do what you want that matters.
Do you want to teach your dog that he gets rewarded for doing what you want, or that he gets punished for NOT doing what you want? There is a very real difference.

With that in mind, I'm not going to recommend any step-by-step books, but instead some books about the philosophy of training, how to understand your dog and help him better understand you, and how to maintain an excellent relationship with your dog.

Bones Would Rain From the Sky, by Suzanne Clothier. (Articles available on her website http://www.flyingdogpress.com )
The Other End of the Leash, by Patricia McConnell
How to Speak Dog, by Stanley Coren

Answer 2

There's a totally awesome book out there called 'Purely Positive Training' by Sheila Booth that gives very detailed instructions for training. If more people bought and read this book, and then actually had the brains to apply what she says, there would be a lot less dogs labeled untrainable turned in to shelters to be killed. Give it a try.

Answer 3

Communicating with Your Dog: a Humane Approach to Dog Training by Ted Baer is a good starter book for first time owners. It's a good "first steps" type of book, though you'll want to supplement with other good books.

Answer 4

The super simple guide to housetraining by Teoti Anderson

The EVERYTHING puppy book by Carlo DeVito & Amy Ammen

How dogs think by Immanuel Birmelin

Dog Training Handbook by Stella Smyth & Sally Bergh-Roose


these are the books i've read on puppy training and they've helped a lot. anther great lady to check out is Victoria Stillwell, she's the host of "its me or the dog" on animal planet. You can find her here:

http://www.victoriastilwell.com/

Answer 5

Forget books and watch the "Dog Whisperer" regularly on TV.

Answer 6

the book in your link is a fun book for trick training and focusing a high energy dog to some 'work'
my personal favorite for training is the Monks of New Skete,,they train German Shepards but the methods are universal for all animals

2nd would be something from Dog Whisperer,,,though i question the INSTANT effect tv provides,,in all my years of training and helping customers,,i realize, myself included, that we as humans put too much humanization on our pets and spoil them to destructive behavior
( note my 100lb dog lounges on the forbidden couch beside me)

Answer 7

i don't remember the authors name, but there is a book that i have gotten at the county library that is titled family dog,it was a great help for me, there was several other titles by the same author.

Answer 8

I like Ceasar Milan "The dog whisper" I trained my dogs like he does before i heard of him he nakes alot of good points some dont like how he does things but people i know that had problem dogs and tried his book had better dogs after. Good luck

Answer 9

"Do's and Don'ts of Dog-Raising" by Michael Vick