Agility Fun the Hobday Way: Agility Training for Puppies: 1

Hobday, Ruth

Clean Run Productions, LLC

Is it difficult to motivate your dog to do what you want him to do, when you want him to do it? Is your dog "too energetic" or "too distracted" to give you his best work? Is your dog happy to run after squirrels in the back yard, but not willing to run on the agility course? Is your dog's recall effective only if there isn't something more interesting nearby? Is your dog willing to work only if he sees the bait bag or his favorite toy? Is your dog "into" toys, but won't play tug with you? Is your dog prone to the "zoomies" during an agility run? If you answered "yes" to any of the questions above, your relationship with your dog needs strengthening. In Ruff Love, Susan Garrett shares her incredibly successful relationship-building program. Based on her years of experience working with dogs, the Ruff Love program is designed not only to help people dealing with "problem" dogs, but to help agility, flyball, obedience, and other dog sport handlers build a better working relationship with their current competition dog or their next performance prospect. Even if your dog doesn't need the Ruff Love program, you'll find a use for Susan's famous training games-Gimme Dat Collar, 1-2-3 Game, Sit-Tug-Sit Game, and Hide &amp; Seek-which are well documented in the book along with her highly effective recall training method.

Ruff Love: A Relationship Building Program for You and Your Dog

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Susan Garrett

Pets & Animal Care

Shaping Success is both the life story of one wildly amusing Border Collie and the training journal of one of the world's most respected dog trainers. Susan Garrett has been invited to lecture on dog training throughout North America and as far away as Japan and Australia. In this, her second book, Susan vividly describes the challenges she faced raising and transforming an extremely high-energy puppy into a national agility champion. Step-by-step training advice will benefit all dog owners, regardless of their aspirations in the sport. Entertaining and thought-provoking, this book is a must for agility enthusiasts at all levels. Also contain a complete training plan for 2x2 weave poles.Book is 6-1/2" x 9"H paperback.

Shaping Success

Garrett, Susan

Longanis, Greg, (Foreword)

America's leading book for dog trainers

Control Unleashed

McDevitt, Leslie

A new puppy is a blank slate with endless possibilities. It's a new beginning that offers you a chance to get it right and not repeat past mistakes. Anyone who has trained a dog before loves that feeling of starting fresh, believing this new puppy will be the best one ever! But a new puppy is also pressure. A new puppy means a major time commitment, not only in how much time you have to spend with him, but in being sure to do all the right things at the right moments. This book integrates the authors' FOCUS (Fun, Obedience, Consistency, Unbelievable Success) Training System techniques with the developmental stages and specific needs of pups and young dogs. The goal is to help you prepare your puppy to become an excellent companion as well as a potential performance dog. The FOCUSed Puppy presents a variety of foundation exercises for your pup's first year. The book tells you exactly what skills you should be working on and when. By following each step, you and your puppy will build a wonderfully rewarding relationship that will carry over into everything you do together. And once his foundation skills are set, you can easily take your training in any direction you choose. If you have adopted an older dog, the The Focused Puppy can also be helpful to you. Rather than trying to build on a faulty foundation based on previous or poorly-taught experiences, you can simply start fresh with the FOCUS Training System. Start out on the right track with your dog and build his foundation skills at the right time in the right order. And enjoy the process; you're about to embark on an amazing learning experience! The Focused Puppy includes over 280 full color photos.

The Focused Puppy

Deborah Jones

Judy Keller

After many years of observation, study, experimentation, and practical application, Linda Mecklenburg has arrived at a simple but comprehensive approach to agility handling that is appropriate for all dogs and handlers, from the beginner to the most accomplished competitor. Developing Handling Skills for Awesome Agility Teams describes how to communicate with your dog and effectively cue him to perform the challenges he will encounter on course. This book will teach you what your dog already knows and wants you to learn-agility handling uses motion as the primary cue. Understanding how to use motion appropriately and in a timely manner is the most important handling skill you can master. Inappropriate motion is responsible for the majority of handling mistakes on the agility course. Have you ever wondered why your dog jumps long, goes too wide, turns the wrong way, runs by obstacles, goes off-course, or otherwise doesn't respond the way you expect? This book will help you answer these questions as it demonstrates various ways in which motion cues, when balanced appropriately with other cues, can create different responses from your dog. Developing Handling Skills will help you discover the best way to balance cues to guide your dog efficiently and accurately on course. Believe it or not, all you need to do is learn how to "run in the right direction." Developing Handling Skills is the most comprehensive book available on dog agility handling. It is designed to be a resource that you will refer to for many years to come. The sport will continue to evolve, but our dogs' responses to the natural cues will not change, and motion will remain the primary cue. Use this book as a guide to determine the best way to communicate with your dog, and to personalize your handling cues to suit the needs of your team. Contains over 200 color photos and 500 diagrams.

Developing Handling Skills

Linda Mecklenburg

Control Unleashed: The Puppy Program Control Unleashed: The Puppy Program

Control Unleashed: The Puppy Program

Leslie McDevitt

Welcome to Barn Hunt, the new canine sport that is sweeping the nation, in which your dog finds rats in PVC tubes hidden on a course made from bales of straw or hay. Sound intriguing? Barn Hunt is the fastest growing dog sport to hit North America since dog agility, and it is becoming more popular every day. This growth is no surprise—Barn Hunt is great fun for people and dogs! It takes a dog’s natural instinct to find quarry, builds in a requirement for teamwork, and offers plenty of challenge and strategy for both dog and human. Barn Hunt provides excellent physical and mental stimulation for your dog, and builds confidence. Through their training, teams build stronger bonds and better communication and can develop a real "conversation" that benefits the pair at home and beyond. This sport is often found by people looking for "jobs" for their dogs, be they older senior dogs that have retired from a vibrant agility career, dogs that love crittering at home, or dogs that are working through social challenges. There are all types and all motivations of dogs. Initial introductions to Barn Hunt are often straightforward, with teams experiencing a high level of success, but as the team progresses, more skills, problem-solving, and proofing are needed to succeed. This book is for those new to the sport as well as for the seasoned Barn Hunt instructor and exhibitor. It is intended to give you an in-depth look at the sport, including how to prepare your dog for trials and how to work through problems with proofing, training drills, and other techniques. One caution here: not only is Barn Hunt somewhat addictive, it is often a "gateway" sport. That means trying Barn Hunt may lead you and your dog to other dog sports such as Nosework, Agility, and Obedience. You have been warned—once you try Barn Hunt, your life will not be the same!

Barn Hunt - A Game of Hide & Seek for Dogs

Eva Fowler Raczka

DVM Deb M. Eldredge

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Clean Run Productions, LLC publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Clean Run Productions, LLC