This forward-looking training book provides an accessible, positive reinforcement training method to replace the obedience methods of the past.
Training is essential for dogs to live peacefully and happily among humans. If you're a dog owner who seeks to build trust rather than establish dominance, you'll appreciate this approach to training that emphasizes listening, observing, relaxation, self-help, change, and games. Chapters cover lifestyle management, body language and attitude, socialization, housetraining, nutrition and exercise, grooming for health and self-esteem, creativity and games, and other important lessons.
You'll Be Amazed By the Results You Get From This Book!
Welcome to a whole new way of thinking about training?one that is as much about you as it is about your puppy or dog. You see, dogs are extremely sensitive to the signals we give them; how we behave affects how they behave. If you want to raise your puppy right or put your dog on the fast track to good manners, you also need to understand your role in the process. But relax. This isn't another lesson you have to learn. It's a way of finding out what really turns you on, making your canine companion happier and more responsive and, lo and behold, changing everything in your life for the better.
In Train Your Dog, Change Your Life, you'll discover
Ways to understand and work with canine body language
The 10 Laws of shaping behavior
A practical, simple, and fun way to train a puppy, week by week
The basics and benefits of play training
How all areas of your life will improve with these principles
Product Details
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Howell Book House-Wiley Inc.; 1 edition (June 15, 2001)
Mantra: Awareness - Relationship - Flexibility - Education - Strength the A.R.F.S. of healthy living with dogs
Maureen Ross, M.A. is the co-founder and manager of Dog Talk & TheraPet, LLC, a training and wellness sanctuary for dogs and their humans. She evolved into the Founder and President of New England Pet Partners, Inc. Both businesses offer a heart-centered approach to family dog training, behavior coaching and well-being for dogs.
New England Pet Partners, Inc. was founded in 2007, as a non-profit charitable organization, bringing people and pets together to enhance well-being and education with pet-assisted therapy. NEPP offers support and mentoring to Pet Partner(R) and R.E.A.D. (R) (Reading Education Assistance Dogs) teams, and health care professionals in the New England area.
Maureen is the author of "Train Your Dog, Change Your Life", Wiley and Company, and numerous articles on behavior, well-being, training and pet-assisted therapy. She has presented at several workshops on family dog training, behavior and domestic abuse and violence (pets), and pet-assisted therapy.
As a board certified counselor/coach, family mediator (humans and dogs), certified professional dog trainer (CPDT), registered yoga teacher (Yoga Alliance), Licensed Team Evaluator for the Delta Society's Pet Partner(R) and R.E.A.D.(R) Instructor, she is most excited by walking a path side-by-side with her dogs and noticing when the "light" shines in others while learning something new.
A personal note: Simply said, I'm an incurable, passionate dog lover. Paradigm shifts and evolving change turn me on. I have an insatiable curiosity for observing and exchanging learning experiences, especially with and from like-minded people, dogs, cats, horses and parrots. My connections and chosen paths have always been more positive, balanced and exciting with dogs by my side.
Dogs keep me grounded in the precious-present moment. Considering well-being whether for dogs or humans, I believe that genetics may load the gun, environment may pull the trigger, but we can make informed choices about lifestyle, values and wellbeing for ourselves and our pets. We can create positive change in our own unique ways. We can choose listen to or turn-off the noise of constant conflict, society, electronics and media.
Yoga helps me (and my dogs) to stay focused and keep my mind like water, flexible and flowing. I enjoy a network of mentors and teams who inspire me, but they can also flood me if I let them. All of this is colored with a careful sense of humor and that insatiable curiosity to learn something new every day. It is a balancing act.
I have a keen awareness and empathy of knowing how precious our time spent with our pets (or friends and loved ones) can be. As a mentor, Dr. Jane Goodall shares, "if I had one wish, it would be to view the world through their (Chimpanzees) eyes, if only for a moment." I would like to observe the world through a dog's (or elephant's) eyes at any time, if only for a moment. Taking a deep breath, Enjoy the Journey ~ Maureen New England Pet Partners, Inc.
This review is from: Train Your Dog, Change Your Life: Interactive Training Program about awareness, education, relationship and well-being-- For Dogs and their Humans~ (Hardcover)
I was given a 5month old German Shepard that had been abused verbally, and physically, no socializing, no housbreaking nothing. I purchased this book and started reading every part of it, I was determined to make this dog a good dog. It worked, everyone that knows my dog Ranger cannot believe the progress that was made with him. This book helps you think the way the dog thinks and is very helpful from that point of view. I would recommend this book for anyone who ownes a dog-----especially a puppy!!!!!! Thank you Moe & Gary Ross awesome job.
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5.0 out of 5 starsTrain Your Dog, Change Your Life, January 4, 2002
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This review is from: Train Your Dog, Change Your Life: Interactive Training Program about awareness, education, relationship and well-being-- For Dogs and their Humans~ (Hardcover)
I found this book to be extremely helpful and easy to read with "down to earth" information and examples. To reinforce the information, there are also very helpful "homework" assignments that are easy to incorporate into a very hectic schedule. Results were obvious within the first two weeks - my puppy suddenly started listening and responding just the way I wanted him to! THANK YOU!!!
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This review is from: Train Your Dog, Change Your Life: Interactive Training Program about awareness, education, relationship and well-being-- For Dogs and their Humans~ (Hardcover)
I found this book to be very informative and easy to read. It gave me a better understanding of my own two dogs [ German Sheperds 10 and 11/2 years old ] how to read there body signals and the way they interact with each other, people, and every- day situations they are exposed to. Also the importance of socializing your dog to make him or her a good canine citizen and a safe and loving member of your family. It's obvious that the authors are very knoledgeable and put alot of thought and time into creating this training manual. If you have or are thinking about getting a dog I highly reccomend getting this book.
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