Clever K9 Bestsellers

Jean Donaldson: Mine!
Jean Donaldson: Fight!
Kay Laurence
Click for Grooming
Ackermann:
Skin & Coat Problems in Dogs
Patricia McConnell Puppy Primer
Performance Dog Nutrition

PERFORMANCE DOG NUTRITION: OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE WITH NUTRITION

by Jocelynn Jacobs
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DWAA Best Care and Health Book Award Winner, 2006! The first and only nutrition book written with the special needs of your performance dog in mind. An excellent resource for determining what food is best for your dog to enhance working ability, also a great reference when special nutritional situations arise. Will help you discover why different types of performance dogs have different nutritional requirements; how to make your dog a top winner with simple nutritional recommendations; the benefit of certain nutrients and how they promote peak performance; how to find nutritional solutions to performance problems. Author is a veterinarian, breeder, handler, sled dog musher and a nutritional expert in both performance dog and reproductive nutrition.

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Fight! Jean Donaldson

This down-to-earth manual will teach you how to use behavior modification to retrain a dog that bullies other dogs, or becomes fearful when approached by other dogs.
Paperback, 116 pp.

$CAD 16.75

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Mine! Jean Donaldson

A guide to resource guarding in dogs

Jean Donaldson, internationally renowned dog trainer and Director of The SF/SPCA's Academy for Dog Trainers. At last, there's a comprehensive guide to one of the most common and least understood dog behavior problems. A clear, step-by-step manual to help people recognize, evaluate and treat resource guarding in pet dogs. The book debunks common myths about resource guarding.

Guide to Backpacking with Your Dog

Learn from the expert on backpaking with dogs to select and fit a backpack, condition and teach your dog to carry the pack, how and what to pack, and the fun you can have on day-hikes, overnighters, back country trips, geocaching with your dog, or earning a packing title from various breed clubs and organizations. If you are considering buying a dog pack, buy this book first! Get ready for fun and a real bonding relationship with your dog.

Canine Reproduction: The Breeder's Guide, 2nd edition by Phyllis A Holst MS DVM

The most important book ever published for dog breeders! Explains the reproductive process, whelping and rearing puppies. Backed by scientific research but written for the layperson, this book is both comprehensive and easily understood. Excellent for new breeders, and an invaluable reference for veterinarians and professionals.

Clicker Training Books

by Kay Laurence
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Foundation Book
The Level 1 Foundation Course teaches the key skills of using rewards, how and why the clicker works, adding names to behaviours, basic shaping and targeting techniques. 15 easy to follow recipes teach you how to communicate with your dog through some great tricks and essential management tasks.

Novice Book
The Level 2 Novice Course builds on the Foundation Course and teaches how to break down behaviours into small achievable steps and develop shaping with structure. How rewards can affect behaviours and using shaping to acquire precision. Finally taking this creative and careful development process through to ultra reliable and strong behaviours and at the same time having great fun with the dog.

TRAINING THE DISASTER SEARCH DOG

by Shirley Hammond

Ships the next business day. Edition: 2005 Paperback, 186 pages

Whether you want to help your community recover victims in case of a local disaster or you wish to select and train a dog to become part of a certified FEMA search team, this is the first book written that tells you how to do it. Choosing the right dog, teaching the dog to alert on possible victims, and detailed training regimens.

MASTERING VARIABLE SURFACE TRACKING BOOK AND WORKBOOK

by Ed Presnall

Edition: 2004 Paperback, 226 pages
Ships the next business day.

Summary: Are you looking for a new challenge for your tracking dog? 'Mastering Variable Surface Tracking' provides a detailed training program to guide you step-by-step to a title. The spiral bound workbook provides lesson plans and exercises using the various components, including sample training maps and tracking notes.

ENTHUSIASTIC TRACKING: A STEP BY STEP TRAINING HANDBOOK

by William 'Sil' Sanders (See other books by author)

Edition: 1998 Paperback, 158 pages

Summary: Training method described here is a systematic technique that works for almost all dogs. Prepares dog and handler for their first tracking test and TDX test.

SCENT: TRAINING TO TRACK, SEARCH AND RESCUE

by Milo Pearsall & Hugo Verbruggen (See other books by author)

Summary: A thorough review of tracking theory and method. Excellent section on the scientific qualities of scent - how dogs smell and the environmental factors that affect scent.

GUIDE TO SKIN & HAIRCOAT PROBLEMS IN DOGS

by Lowell Ackerman

Skin diseases are both common and extremely frustrating to both owner and veterinarian. Ackerman attempts to help both with an in-depth but non-technical explanation of the symptoms, causes and possible treatments of skin problems and hair loss. Too detailed for most casual pet owners, but not a medical text. Ideal for breeders, groomers, trainers and those wanting a serious reference on the subject.

AUTHOR’S BIO

Lowell Ackerman is a board-certified veterinary dermatologist with practices in Mesa and Phoenix, Arizona, and Thornhill, Ontario.

plaent dog Dog Friendly Gardens; Garden Friendly Dogs by Cheryl S Smith

The first book ever written that tells you exactly how to combine your love of dogs with your love of gardening. You'll learn how to design your garden with your dog in mind and how to train your dog with your garden in mind. Easy to follow, full color!

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CANINE MASSAGE: A COMPLETE REFERENCE MANUAL

by Jean-Pierre Hourdebaigt Use massage to help your dog relax, to condition the canine athlete, to assist in recovery from injuries or to ease chronic pain. Learn the techniques of a recognized expert in the field so that you can bring the well-known benefits of massage to your own dog or become a canine massage specialist. New edition includes detailed examinations of muscular stress points, diagnoses and treatments. Excellent source of information on dog anatomy as well. DVD is now available also!

CANINE MASSAGE - A VISUAL GUIDE DVD

by Jean-Pierre Hourdebaigt

Summary: Clear, close-up, hands-on demonstrations with instructions on massage movements, massage techniques and many massage routines. Compliments Canine Massage: A Complete Reference Manual

BRINGING LIGHT TO SHADOW - A DOG TRAINER'S DIARY

by Pamela Dennison

Edition: 2004 Paperback, 235 pages

Learn how difficult it is, even for a professional dog trainer, to handle a dog with a past - and a temper too. From the diary of a trainer who refused to give up while using positive, no-force training methods.

Click for Grooming, Handling and Treatment
by Karen McCarthy

Grooming helps you keep a close eye on your dog's body and gives you the skills of being able to identify any changes that may occur. A mentally happy and physically healthy dog performs any request willingly and in a confident and joyful manner; and if a dog is happy and confident then the owner will be too.

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plaent dog Foundation Book
The Level 1 Foundation Course teaches the key skills of using rewards, how and why the clicker works, adding names to behaviours, basic shaping and targeting techniques. 15 easy to follow recipes teach you how to communicate with your dog through some great tricks and essential management tasks.

Intermediate Book
The Level 3 Intermediate Course teaches you how to plan your dog’s learning by carefully balancing teaching and training, luring and shaping. Complex behaviours that are grouped together in sequences or merged as one behaviour are exploded, explained and re-collected with understanding and precision. These skills are developed through recording and analysing data which leads onto weaning the dog off the clicker and short term rewards. The unique “micro-shaping” will blow your mind with its power for creating accurate behaviours with the dog’s cognitive abilities at full strength.

Dances With Dogs
Dances with Dogs is the essential book if your want to train your dog a multitude of moves and poses and tricks and walks … just for the fun of it!
We teach dogs to 'walk on sunshine', to circle and twirl, to bend and stretch. All the moves you can enjoy with your dog at any time, or follow on to join the new sport.
For Paws n Music, for freestyle, for heelwork and for dressage, this book goes into clear detail how to lay down the foundation moves and build a full repertoire to suit any dog, any handler, rap or blues, country or classical.
We recommend you acquire the Foundation and Novice Clicker Training skills before starting on Dances with Dogs.
The only thing I can guarantee is you'll laugh like you haven't done in ages!

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Beginning Family Dog Training
2nd Edition

Patricia B. McConnell, Ph.D.

This user-friendly and engaging book employs gentle and effective training methods rather than punishment-oriented techniques that so often lead to aggression. Covering commands from sit and heel to coming when called, this book explains how dogs communicate, think, and learn. Many serious behavioral problems can be avoided with the scientifically-based and humane training methods described in this book.

plaent dog Puppy Primer

Brenda Scidmore and Patricia B. McConnell, Ph.D.

Help your new bundle of joy get off on the right paw with a book that you can afford and have time to read. With all the basics from potty training to socialization, this little book can prevent many serious behavioral problems and make your first year together even more fun than you ever imagined. Whenever any of our trainers or behaviorists gets a new puppy, this book comes right back off the shelf for use as a daily reference. It's that full of essential information.