This book offers a fantastic training program for reactive dogs. Start at the very lowest level of reaction, create a positive association with whatever it is that creates the anxiety and work from there. I know first hand that when your dog reacts, it's easy to let yourself also get anxious and excited. After reading this book, you can stay calm and stay in control of the situation so that you can best help your dog. Sully (Pembroke Welsh Corgi) was fear aggressive toward dogs and severely shy This book offers a fantastic training program for reactive dogs. Start at the very lowest level of reaction, create a positive association with whatever it is that creates the anxiety and work from there. I know first hand that when your dog reacts, it's easy to let yourself also get anxious and excited.

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After reading this book, you can stay calm and stay in control of the situation so that you can best help your dog. Sully (Pembroke Welsh Corgi) was fear aggressive toward dogs and severely shy toward strangers, children, loud noises and more.

Download Free Paul Randolph Lonely Eden Rare on this page. Using methods from this book and a couple of others, he now has several obedience and rally titles and is comfortable being away from home, greeting people and is no longer reactive toward other dogs. This book makes sense! Fic Spectra Drivers there.

This is one of Patricia McConnell's 'booklets' that focuses in on one issue or another. 'The Cautious Canine' is a step by step dog training treatment plan for fearful dogs.

Through several books as well as working with a professional trainer, we have concluded that Baylie has one of the sweetest personalities who wants very hard to please us, but she is just a fearful little dog. Add that to the 'Terrier' in her and now we understand why she is snappy at times. She has the mindset, 'I'm gonna g This is one of Patricia McConnell's 'booklets' that focuses in on one issue or another.

'The Cautious Canine' is a step by step dog training treatment plan for fearful dogs. Through several books as well as working with a professional trainer, we have concluded that Baylie has one of the sweetest personalities who wants very hard to please us, but she is just a fearful little dog.

Add that to the 'Terrier' in her and now we understand why she is snappy at times. She has the mindset, 'I'm gonna get you before you get me!' We are working very hard and patiently to try and get her to overcome her behavioral problems that are triggered by her fears, which mainly includes meeting/seeing new dogs.

Here is an excerpt taken from Patricia McConnell's website describing her booklet. 'So many behavioral problems in dogs result from fear, but fear-based problems can become worse if treated incorrectly. This booklet provides a step-by-step dog training program of desensitizing and counter classical conditioning. It can help you solve minor dog problems and prevent serious ones, whether your dog's fears include the vacuum cleaner, people with hats, or the stranger at the door. Covered are the oh-so-important details related to identifying exactly what triggers your dog, creating a step-by-step treatment plan, monitoring your progress, and why you need to treat the fear and not just your dog's reaction to the fear. This book is on the 'Top- Ten' of Dogwise's Dog Training Book Catalog, and has helped thousands of dogs and their owners around the country.' This short booklet by Patricia McConnell packs a lot of punch and is well worth the brief amount of time it will take you to read.

The Cautious Canine specifically addresses the treatment of behaviors stemming from fear in your dog using a classical counter conditioning technique. The treatment she lays out is, nominally, to work with dogs that are afraid of people but it can easily be adapted to any fear based behavior. McConnell addresses what does and does not work. The emphasis is on consist This short booklet by Patricia McConnell packs a lot of punch and is well worth the brief amount of time it will take you to read. The Cautious Canine specifically addresses the treatment of behaviors stemming from fear in your dog using a classical counter conditioning technique.

The treatment she lays out is, nominally, to work with dogs that are afraid of people but it can easily be adapted to any fear based behavior. McConnell addresses what does and does not work.

The emphasis is on consistency and slow progress. You are encouraged to sit down and make lists as to what scares your dog, as specifically as possible, as well as what your dog has a passionate love for, be it tennis balls or hot dog pieces. Using this you can work on the dogs fears one step at a time, reconditioning them, slowly, to associate pleasant emotions and experiences with what scares them. I love McConnell's section on what to do when the unexpected happens, because it will happen. While this book didn't really help all that much so far, it did reinforce most of the things I learned while taking doggie classes. It also gave me a few new ideas, but didn't really address what to do when the trigger is outside of your control.

I can't really remove Kirby from thunderstorms when they happen. Nor can I really simulate them on a lower level.though I might try a recording of thunder.

Or maybe I could just always give Kirby a treat if he does something constructive after a clap While this book didn't really help all that much so far, it did reinforce most of the things I learned while taking doggie classes. It also gave me a few new ideas, but didn't really address what to do when the trigger is outside of your control. I can't really remove Kirby from thunderstorms when they happen.

Nor can I really simulate them on a lower level.though I might try a recording of thunder. Or maybe I could just always give Kirby a treat if he does something constructive after a clap of thunder. Gave me some ideas but nothing really too new for me since I took classes from her organization already. This isn't really a 'book' per se, but more of a booklet. It IS filled to the very last page with great information for owners of shy or aggressive dogs.

My Border collie was a bit shy (not a biter, though, thank goodness), and I used some of the tips in this little book and, lo and behold, I now have a much more confident, happy dog. He still won't walk up to a complete stranger for petting, but he's a lot more tolerant of them coming a little closer without cowering behind my legs. I absolutel This isn't really a 'book' per se, but more of a booklet. It IS filled to the very last page with great information for owners of shy or aggressive dogs. My Border collie was a bit shy (not a biter, though, thank goodness), and I used some of the tips in this little book and, lo and behold, I now have a much more confident, happy dog.

He still won't walk up to a complete stranger for petting, but he's a lot more tolerant of them coming a little closer without cowering behind my legs. I absolutely recommend this!

Patricia McConnell, Ph.D., a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist, (CAAB) has made a lifelong commitment to improving the relationship between people and animals. She is known worldwide as an expert on canine and feline behavior and dog training, and for her engaging and knowledgeable dog training books, DVDs and seminars. Patricia has seen clients for serious behavioral problems since 1988, and i Patricia McConnell, Ph.D., a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist, (CAAB) has made a lifelong commitment to improving the relationship between people and animals. She is known worldwide as an expert on canine and feline behavior and dog training, and for her engaging and knowledgeable dog training books, DVDs and seminars. Patricia has seen clients for serious behavioral problems since 1988, and is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, teaching 'The Biology and Philosophy of Human/Animal Relationships.'

For fourteen years she dispensed advice about behavior problems, and information about animal behavior research, on Wisconsin Public Radio's Calling All Pets, which was heard in over 90 cities around the country. Patricia received her Ph.D. In Zoology in 1988 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison researching dog behavior and communication between professional trainers and working domestic animals.