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 Training: Obedience
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To Heel
Written by Dawn Jecs, this is a unique
training program for competitive obedience, with emphasis on novice exercises, taught
off-leash, proofing from the very start, and using positive reinforcement! Build a good
foundation! Step by step instruction, illustrated with black & white photos.
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To Heel 2 Video
Written by Dawn Jecs,
this is a training program for competitive obedience, with emphasis on novice exercises,
taught off-leash, proofing from the very start, and using positive reinforcement! Build a
good foundation! Video reviews, then advances obedience basics and heeling. Includes a
review of the "First Steps" from Choose to Heel book and the advancement of
obedience basics and heeling. Includes flexibility exercises, cueing and footwork, heeling
turns and transitions, proofing techniques, Come & Get It Exercise/Proofing, gentle
jaw concept.
Steppin'
Up to Success Book 1: Theory, Footwork, Handling, and Attention
For any experience level: Terri Arnold's Book 1 will teach you how
to develop crystal-clear communication with your dog; grow and foster a relationship with
your dog at home and in the ring; motivate your dog using specific praise, food and
specialized games; utilize your dog's natural instincts to enhance your training; develop
goals and a competitive plan; properly gear up to compete; ensure your success at trials;
and build rock-solid training foundations using Terri's ultimate step-by-step attention
plan.
Steppin'
Up to Success Book 2: Novice
Terri
Arnold's Book 2 will teach you to shape your dog's natural characteristics into becoming a
team player; truly understand the details that go into mastering all the novice
exercises... and use them; achieve picture-perfect heeling that highlights teamwork and
personality; build a rock solid foundation of skills for you and your dog to help bring
you success in Open and Utility; go beyond Novice with exercises to prepare you for
advanced classes and reinforce your understanding of the Novice class. All new revised
edition.
Steppin'
Up to Success Book 3: Open and Utility
Terri
Arnold's Book 3 teaches you to apply the skills you learned in Books 1 and 2 to better
communicate with your dog; thoroughly understand the components that make up the Open and
Utility classes; eliminate confusion and increase confidence; use innovative approaches to
introduce advanced exercises to your team's foundation; and strengthen your relationship
with your dog and perfect your teamwork.
Competitive Obedience Clicks Video
Details of competitive obedience are taught using clicker methods.
Training is very low-key, laid back, casual. *Recommended that this video be viewed in
conjunction with Shirley's Clicker Cookbook & Training Log and/or Just Plain Clicker
Sense, since the video jumps immediately into working with the dog, with little or no
explanation of clicker training methods, how to use the clicker, etc. and very little
explanation of what is happening during the training session.
Clicker
Training for Obedience
In his much anticipated book, Morgan Spector answers all the familiar questions about
clicker training: "Why can't I just use my voice?" "What if the dog doesn't
obey?" "When can I get rid of the food?" Morgan will show you how to use
clicker training, not just to solve problems, but to avoid them in the first place. With a
focus on training for the Obedience ring, you might think this book is only for the future
Obedience dog. Wrong! Your companion dog will also benefit from the chapters on heeling,
turning, sits, downs, jumping, drop on recall, scenting, and much, much more. Bottom line:
this is a great book! (© 1999, Paperback, 267 pages)
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Your Way to Rally Obedience (2006)
Written by Pam Dennison. Rally Obedience is the fastest
growing dog sport in America! Using quick, easy, positive methods
with a clicker and rewards, Pam Dennison explains how you can train
your own dog to excel in Rally. Learn to work happily as a team and
find ways to have your dog be more responsive and cooperative in not
only Rally but other forms of competition as well.
Schutzhund
Obedience: Training in Drive
This book
was written by Gottfreid Dildei & Sheila Booth. Have fun while training! This method
gives your dog choices, then you simply reward him for making the correct choice. This
gives him credit for being an intelligent, sensitive creature who enjoys working when we
allow him to think for himself. This happy attitude assures your dog will work joyfully
and correctly--in other words, he will love to work!! Stresses the drive instinct in the
dog, and is a step-by-step manual to teach you how to train your dog for winning
obedience. Popular with both Schutzhund and competitive obedience customers. Deals with
the novice exercises: heeling, sit, stay, down, stand, recall.
It's
Not the Dogs, It's the People! Audio CD
This CD was created by Nicole Wilde. As a
pet dog trainer, you have learned skills and mastered techniques that enable you to train
dogs successfully. The good news is that you can do the same with your human clients!
Discover powerful, practical techniques you can apply immediately. Learn to handle
difficult personality types, from Argumentative Al to Bland Betty, from Look-at-Me Leah to
Know-It-All Ned. Become adept at managing situations like emotional blackmail, unrealistic
expectations, TWI (Training While Intoxicated), tardiness, haggling and more. Includes
basic human-training skills, family dynamics, working with kids, training hordes of wild
humans, dealing with difficult personality types, sticky situations, personal safely, and
more.
Simply
Scenting
This book was written by Dawn Jecs. An
innovative, natural way to teach your dog scent discrimination, designed for utility level
obedience. Step-by-step instructions! Extensively illustrated with black & white
photos.
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'N' Sniff: Clicker Training for Scent Discrimination
This 2001 booklet was written by Deb Jones. The scent discrimination
exercise in Utility obedience class is one that can cause many trainers and their dogs
unnecessary stress and frustration. This booklet will help you and your dog achieve success
painlessly! Contents include: Introduction; Equipment; Clicker Training Skills; Foundation
skills; Training steps; Data Sheet; and a list of Resources.
Virtual
Competition: Invisible Judge & Dog Show Noise CD
This 60 minutes CD from Positive Power
Productions helps you practice your competitive obedience dog in a "real" show,
following a judge's instructions, or get her familiar with the sounds she'll hear at the
next big event! CD allows you to work/practice your competitive obedience dog in a
"real" show, following a judge's instructions. Includes all the noises usually
heard at a dog show or obedience trial, to be used to familiarize your dog with these
sounds!
The
Rally Course Book - A Guide to AKC Rally Courses
This book was written by Janice Dearth. Exhibitors, instructors, and
prospective judges will find this helpful for teaching, designing, and judging Rally.
Aimed toward instructors in all stages of Rally, it includes tips about designing courses
and includes usable courses with exhibitor sheets. Should also help current judges save
time in designing courses. Each course is designed and displayed clearly to help
exhibitors perform the course with excellence. The Rally Course book also includes
detailed instructions and descriptions for each AKC sign, as well as an Instructor's class
syllabus for all judges wishing to teach Rally to beginners. Lessons include how to
perform left turns, right turns and how to create courses.
Rally-O:
The Style of Rally Obedience, 3rd Edition
Charles "Bud" Kramer is the originator of Rally Style Obedience, and his book
tells you all you need to get started in this fun, new approach to dog obedience. Rally is
designed to be a style of obedience that emphasizes fun and excitement for the dog,
handler and spectator, with a more natural flow to the performance. The handler and dog
complete the course by reading a series of signs along the course and performing the
exercise listed on each sign, without additional commands from the judge. Scoring is also
designed to allow less precision than traditional obedience. There are two levels: Level
One is entirely on-lead, so beginners can participate early in their training. Level Two
is for the more advanced dogs and is off-lead. Book explains everything you need to know
to set up a trial, how to judge, a full description of the classes and exercises, and
details about the signs needed. There are also different course designs shown for both
levels.
Remembering
to Breathe - Inside Dog Obedience Competition
This book was written by Willard Bailey. Honeybear and Skippy (Willard
Bailey) stumble into the high-intensity world of AKC dog obedience competition as the most
clueless of neophytes. They share a life-defining adventure in pursuit of the "Holy
Grail" of dog sports. Their odyssey is an emotional roller coaster - a succession of
cliffhangers resulting from injuries, training crises, performance curve balls and the
mine field called the competition ring. Along the way there are underlying conflicts:
about training philosophies and methods, with members of the lowlife fringe of the
obedience community, and, indeed, internal conflicts.
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