101 Dog Tricks: Step-by-Step Activities to Engage, Challenge, and Bond with Your Dog

by Kyra Sundance

Other authorsNick Saglimbeni (Photographer), Chalcy [Dog] (Author)
Paperback, 2007

Status

Available

Call number

SCI G.410

Publication

Quarry Books

Pages

208

Description

101 Dog Tricks is the largest trick book on the market and the only one presenting full-color photos of each trick and its training steps.

Description

101 Dog Tricks is an international bestseller in 18 languages with over a half-million copies sold worldwide! This beautifully designed book features step-by-step instructions with easy-to-follow color photos of each step. Each trick is rated with a difficulty rating and prerequisites to get you started quickly.

Tips and troubleshooting boxes cover common problems, while Build on it! ideas suggest more complicated tricks that build on each new skill. Tricks range from simple ones like Sit, Shake Hands, Fetch, and Roll Over, to extraordinary ones like Tidy Up Your Toys into the Toybox and Get a Soda from the Fridge.

Organized by theme, it's easy to find the next trick to work on with your dog. Just a few of the themes to choose from:

Chores, such as Newspaper Delivery and Get Your Leash
Funny tricks,such as Doggy Push-ups and Play the Piano
Dancing, such as Moonwalk and Chorus Line Kicks
Love, such as Kisses and Wave Goodbye
Trick training will help you bond with your dog and integrate him or her into your family. Tricks also help keep your dog mentally and physically healthy and establish paths of communication between you. Many tricks build skills used in dog sports, dog dancing, and dog therapy work. 101 Dog Tricks will inspire you to do more with your dog! Millions of people have found success with Kyra Sundance's step-by-step techniques—and you can, too.

Collection

Barcode

3936

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

208 p.; 9 inches

ISBN

1592533256 / 9781592533251

UPC

080665001802

Lexile

L

User reviews

LibraryThing member Talbin
101 Dog Tricks: Step-by-Step Activities to Engage, Challenge and Bond with Your Dog, by Kyra Sundance, is an excellent dog training book. Sundance describes each trick fully, and the photographs that show the steps are extremely informative. Each trick is labeled as Easy, Intermediate, Advanced and
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Expert, and Sundance shows how you can combine various easier tricks to teach the more advanced tricks. The book starts with a very brief introduction that describes the best way to train your dog to do tricks - do short sessions, keep them upbeat and fun, and use treats and/or a clicker to keep your dog's motivation high. Sundance also describes how to transition away from using treats, and gives some pointers about how to work training into your schedule. In the back of the book are a few helpful lists: tricks by skill level and tricks by sport. Plus Sundance lists 50 additional tricks with ideas of how you could teach them - not only is she showing the reader how to teach their dog tricks, she's also showing how to build on the step-by-step instructions she's given so that the reader can use the skills to teach any trick.

This book came highly recommended to me from members of a dog training Internet board I read. I've only just started using the book to train our dog, Brix, but so far Sundance's method has made it extremely easy for me to break down the trick and focus on gaining success with each step. I think this is going to be a great book, and teaching tricks will help keep our sometimes too-smart dog's mind engaged and continually working on new things.
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LibraryThing member librarian_tina
Easy directions and engaging photos show you how to work with your dog to master a variety of tricks. Sundance explains how to start with the basics and then flow several steps together to accomplish the more complicated tricks (like fetch a soda from the fridge).

Rating

(33 ratings; 4.1)

Call number

SCI G.410
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