Dog Training For Dummies

Name: Dog Training For Dummies
Brand: Wiley
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Wendy Volhard Mary Ann Rombold-Zeigenfuse(Autor*in)

Wiley (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 13. März 2020

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Intro
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
About This Book
Foolish Assumptions
Icons Used in This Book
Where to Go from Here
Part 1 Setting the Stage for Successful Training
Chapter 1 Dog Training: The Key to Your Dog's Safety and Your Sanity
Understanding Why You're Training Buddy: To Do Something or Not to Do Something
Identifying a Well-Trained Dog
Selecting a Training Model
First things first: Considering your dog's breed
Training a dog: What are you really doing?
Identifying Six Basic Commands Every Dog Needs to Know
Recognizing Factors that Influence Success
Having a good relationship with your dog
Owning a healthy dog
Making training time a priority
Oh, the Places You and Your Pooch Can Go: Beyond the Basics
The Canine Good Citizen Certificate
AKC S.T.A.R. puppy program
AKC tricks titles
More than training: Understanding how dogs help people
An Exercise to Get You and Your Pooch Started
Chapter 2 Getting to Know Your Dog and How He Perceives the World
Determining What Motivates You and Your Dog
Being Aware of Your Dog's Body Language
Recognizing Your Dog's Instinctive Behaviors
Prey drive
Pack drive
Defense drive, fight and flight
Understanding how the drives affect training
Determining Your Dog's Personality Profile
Deciding How You Want Buddy to Act
Bringing out drives
Switching drives
Applying drives to your training
Remembering Who's Training Whom
Chapter 3 Developing Training Savvy
Managing the Dog Within
Breed-specific behaviors
Temperament
Mental sensitivity
Responses to visual stimuli
Sound sensitivity
Touch sensitivity - the adrenaline effect
Stressing the Effects of Stress
Understanding stress
Recognizing the symptoms of stress
Origins of stress - intrinsic and extrinsic
Relating stress to learning
Stress and distraction training
Managing stress
Managing Your Dog's Environment
Starting on the right foot
Recognizing your dog's social needs
Identifying your dog's emotional needs
Feeding your dog's nutritional needs
Understanding the "You" Factor
Knowing your expectations
Knowing your attitude
Being consistent with commands and tone of voice
Outlasting your dog - be persistent
Knowing to avoid "no"
Repeating commands
Chapter 4 Understanding the Vital Role That Nutrition and Health Play in Training
Finding the Right Food for Buddy
Deciphering dog food labels
Evaluating Buddy's current food
Understanding the Nutrients Your Dog Needs
Meeting puppy's nutritional needs
Keeping your dog's diet rich in protein
Going easy on the carbohydrates
Knowing the value of fats - in moderation
Ensuring that your dog's diet is fortified with vitamins and minerals
Don't forget to quench his thirst: Keeping fresh water around
Paying close attention to preservatives
Making Choices about How to Feed Buddy
Feeding Buddy commercial dry food
Offering beefed-up commercial dry food
Trying a raw food or frozen diet
Making your own food: Wendy's Natural Diet
Using the Natural Diet Foundation (NDF2)
Transferring Buddy to his new diet
Sizing up supplements
Exploring Common Health Issues That Affect Behavior and Training
Here comes that needle again: Examining vaccination issues
Uncovering the rise in doggy hypothyroidism
The bone crusher: "Oh, my aching back"
Quelling fear, anxiety, and other conditions with homeopathy
Treating chronic conditions with acupuncture
Chapter 5 Gearing Up for Training Success
Choosing the Right Training Leash and Collar
Deciding on a leash
Selecting a collar
Readying a Reward: Treats Are Your Training Buddies
Picking the ideal tasty treat
Opting for toys when food treats don't work
Considering Other Equipment You Can Use
Using head halters
Going for a body harness
Exploring electronic and other training and management equipment
Part 2 Performing Puppy Preliminaries
Chapter 6 Bringing Your Puppy Home: What You Need to Know
Preparing for Puppy's Arrival
Puppy's home at home: Readying a crate
Puppy's menu: Selecting a proper diet and set of dishes
Puppy's everyday collar, ID, and leash: Preparing Buddy to go outside
Puppy's toys: Playing with Buddy
Bringing Puppy Home - Now What?
Getting your puppy used to his collar and leash
Getting Buddy situated in his new home
Introducing puppies and kids
Meeting resident pets
Tending to his potty needs
Deciding where your puppy should sleep
Starting Buddy's Education
Training for grooming
Spaying and neutering
Solving Perplexing Puppy Problems
Chapter 7 Surviving Your Puppy's Critical Growth Periods
Understanding Your Puppy's Early Development
Birth to 7 weeks: the Canine Socialization Period
Getting to know everyone: Weeks 7-12 the Human Socialization Period
Suddenly he's afraid: Weeks 8-12 the Fear Imprint Period
Now he wants to leave home: Beyond 12 weeks: "Been there, done that"
The Terrible Twos: Managing the Adolescent from 4 Months to 2 Years
Surviving the juvenile flakies
Blame it on the hormones: Understanding how hormones affect behavior
Meeting the mature adult when your dog finally grows up
Spaying or Neutering to Help with Behavior and Training
Heeding the advantages
Acknowledging the disadvantages
Knowing when to spay or neuter
Part 3 Tackling Training Basics
Chapter 8 The Ins and Outs of Housetraining
Helping Buddy Get Used to His Crate
Training a Dog to Eliminate Outside
Hold elimination when inside the house
Know why he's outside - to eliminate
Prove to Buddy that you're trustworthy to take him outside
Establishing a Regular Feeding and Elimination Schedule
Designating a Regular Toilet Area
When Accidents Happen - Knowing What to Do
Avoiding punishment
Dealing with the accidents
Cleaning accidents
Using an Exercise Pen for Housetraining
Chapter 9 Focusing on Some Basic Training Commands
Training for Attention: Praise Versus Petting
Understanding the difference between the two
Using Okay to release from work
Practice getting your dog's attention
Using the Yes command
Practicing Name Recognition
Sequence 1: Having Buddy move toward you when he hears his name
Sequence 2: Adding Come after his name
Sequence 3: Making Sit mandatory
Teaching Your Dog the Touch Command
Sequence 1: Getting Buddy to move toward you
Sequence 2: Increasing the distance Buddy needs to move toward you
Sequence 3: Not offering treat in the flat Touch hand
Sequence 4: Moving the touch hand in different positions
Sequence 5: Mixing up the hand you offer
Greeting with the Hello Command
Sequence 1: Focusing on the treat
Sequence 2: Greeting and praising
Sequence 3: Training Buddy to hold the sitting position longer
Sequence 4: Having a friend help
Leave It: Getting Your Dog to Leave Stuff Alone
Sequence 1: Introducing Leave It
Sequence 2: Looking at you
Sequence 3: Moving the treat from your hand to the floor
Sequence 4: "Leaving" a dropped food item
Sequence 5: "Leaving" a found item on the ground outside
Understanding other uses for Leave It
Chapter 10 Coming and Going: Two Essential Commands to Teach Buddy
Understanding the Importance of Leadership: Okay Is the Word
Teaching Your Dog to Come When Called
Teaching Buddy the Recall Game
Remembering what's important when you use the Come command
Training Your Dog to Handle Distractions
Teaching Come with first-degree distractions
Teaching Come with second-degree distractions
Teaching Come with third-degree distractions
Focusing on the Opposite of Come - Go
Sequence 1: Teaching a target
Sequence 2: Add Come after the release
Sequence 3: Increase the distance to the target
Chapter 11 Mastering Some Fundamentals: Sit, Down, and Stay
Understanding Why Sit Is So Important
Introducing Down and Its Commands
Training Your Dog Sit and Down Simultaneously
Sequence 1: Placing and showing
Sequence 2: Adding the Down
Sequence 3: Luring into the Down
Sequence 4: Luring into the Sit
Sequence 5: Adding collar pressure
Sequence 6: Foregoing the treat
Warming Up with the Long-Down Exercise
Staying in Place: Sit-Stay and Down-Stay
Teaching the Sit-Stay
Teaching the Down-Stay
Chapter 12 Going for a Pleasant Walk
Using the Right Leash and Collar When Walking Your Dog
Taking a Pleasure Walk with Your Dog
Using a clock face to train your dog to walk
Training the pleasure walk
Teaching Buddy How to Heel at Your Side
Adding Distractions
Training with distractions
Chapter 13 Going to Bed and All of Its Practical Uses
Selecting a Bed for Your Dog
Deciphering How You Want to Use the Command
Training Buddy the Go to Your Bed Command
Sequence 1: Starting with the Bed command
Sequence 2: Adding the Go, Bed command
Sequence 3: Increasing your distance from the bed
Sequence 4: Foregoing the food lure
Sequence 5: Increasing the time spent on the bed
Sequence 6: Moving around while he's on the bed
Sequence 7: Adding distractions
Sequence 8: Finding the bed from another room
Chapter 14 Getting In, Out, On, and Off and Mastering Door and Stairs Manners
Getting In and Out
Sequence 1: Eating the reward
Sequence 2: Making Buddy wait for his treat
Sequence 3: The rules of the exit begin
Getting On and Off
Sequence 1: Getting Buddy on something
Sequence 2: Getting Buddy off something
Training Door Manners
Sequence 1: Opening the door
Sequence 2: Adding some outside distraction
Sequence 3: Leaving Buddy behind at the door
Teaching Stairs Manners
Chapter 15 Dealing with Common Doggie Don'ts
Preventing Bad Habits - The Five General Prescriptions for Good Behavior
Good exercise
Good company
Good health
Good nutrition
Good training
Handling Your Dog's Objectionable Behavior
Tolerating your dog's behavior problems
Trying to solve your dog's behavior problems
When all else fails: Finding a new home for your dog
Teaching Buddy to Keep All Four on the Floor
Greeting people - Using the Hello command
Using Sit and Stay as an alternative to jumping up
Putting an End to Counter Surfing - Leave It
Quieting the Incessant Barker
Barking as a response to a stimulus or distraction
Barking for attention
Barking when someone comes to the door
Contending with Chewing - The Nonfood Variety
I'm teething! Examining the physiological need to chew
I'm bored! Recognizing the psychological reasons that dogs chew
Dealing with a Digger
Managing Marking Behavior
Part 4 Taking Training to the Next Level
Chapter 16 Retrieving: Time to Fetch
Introducing the Common Retrieving Commands to Your Natural Retriever
Explaining the Basics of Retrieving
Sequence 1: Starting with Take It
Sequence 2: Working on the Hold It and Give command
Sequence 3: Helping your dog retrieve on command
Sequence 4: Helping Buddy learn to hold and reach for the object
Sequence 4: Teaching Buddy to reach for it
Sequence 6: Walking while holding the dumbbell
Sequence 7: Training Buddy for the pick-up
Sequence 8: Bringing it back
Sequence 9: Putting it all together
Polishing and Perfecting the Retrieve
Wait for it: Testing your dog's patience
Retrieving with distractions
Chapter 17 Trick Training for Fun
Shake and High Five
Sequence 1: Introducing the concept of shaking hands
Sequence 2: Lifting his paw
Sequence 3: Putting his paw on your palm
Sequence 4: Adding the High Five
Find the Pea under the Right Cup
Sequence 1: Establishing a pattern for the game
Sequence 2: Introducing the covered treat
Sequence 3: Adding a second cup with no treat
Sequence 4: Moving the cups and changing their position
Sequence 5: Finishing the trick
Hide in a Box
Sequence 1: Introducing the box on its side
Sequence 2: Standing the box correctly with opening on top
Sequence 3: Adding the Hide command
Sequence 4: Putting it all together
Pick a Hand
Sequence 1: Reviewing the Touch command
Sequence 2: Touching the back of the treat hand
Sequence 3: Offering both hands for dog to choose the loaded hand
Sequence 4: Putting your hands behind your back first
Play Shy
Sequence 1: Putting his head between your legs
Sequence 2: Holding your legs closer together
Sequence 3: Holding his head pressed between your legs
Roll Over
Sequence 1: Rolling over with a little help
Sequence 2: Rolling over on his own
Sequence 3: Rolling over on command
Play Dead
Sequence 1: Laying down on his side or back
Sequence 2: Playing dead from the sitting or standing position
Sequence 3: Playing dead at a distance
Sequence 4: Presenting the trick to an audience
Find Mine
Sequence 1: Retrieving something of yours
Sequence 2: Helping your dog find your item
Sequence 3: Allowing Buddy to find the keys with his nose
Sequence 4: Adding identical items and Buddy will find yours
Sequence 5: Untying the clean pencils after Buddy is always finding your scented pencil
Jump through a Hoop
Sequence 1: Walking and jumping through a hoop
Sequence 2: Jumping through the hoop off Leash
You Have Food on Your Nose
Sequence 1: Cupping your hand over your dog's muzzle
Sequence 2: Putting the treat on your dog's nose
Sequence 3: Balancing the treat longer
Sequence 4: Balancing the treat without your help
Take a Bow
Sequence 1: Bowing by using a food lure
Sequence 2: Practicing until Buddy bows with little to no help
Sequence 3: Taking a bow on command
Dog Catcher/Stranger Trick
Chapter 18 Training for Fun and Competition
Understanding the System: Your Road Map to the Companion Dog Title
Requirements for Pre-Novice
The Novice class: What's expected from you and Buddy
First Things First: Teaching the Ready! Command
Using Control Position
Working through the sequences of the Ready! command
Heeling Despite Distractions
Helping your dog heel in new places
Using a distracter while you're heeling
Let's Dance, Buddy: Heel On and Then Off Leash
The halt
Changes of pace and turns
Putting a Twist on Things: Teaching the Figure 8
Sequence 1: Preparing Buddy for the Figure 8
Sequence 2: Introducing Buddy to the actual Figure 8
Sequence 3: Doing the perfect Figure 8
Your Dog Isn't an Elephant: Reinforcing Training
Chapter 19 Completing the Companion Dog Title
You're Getting a Check-Up: Preparing for the Stand for Examination
Sequence 1: Introducing the Stand command and Stand Stay
Sequence 2: Showing Buddy how to stand still without holding him in position
Sequence 3: Working on the Stand-Stay command
Sequence 4: Leaving Buddy in a Stand-Stay
Sequence 5: Getting Buddy familiar with the Return
Sequence 6: Preparing Buddy for the actual examination
Heeling Off Leash
Transitioning to Heeling Off Leash
Successfully getting off leash
Mastering the Recall
Stay
Come with distractions
Front
Finish
Training for the Group Stay Exercises
Setting up self-generated distractions
Increasing the level of difficulty
Part 5 Handling Special Situations
Chapter 20 Addressing Aggression
Understanding Aggression
Examining the link between aggression and drives
Looking at the causes of aggression
Managing a Dog's Aggression - Prey, Pack, Defense Drives
Dealing with aggression from dogs high in prey drive
Handling aggression from dogs high in defense drive
Controlling aggression in dogs high in pack drive
Coping with Aggression around the Food Bowl
Dealing with Fear-Biters
Handling Aggression in Different Circumstances
Aggression in a multi-dog household
Aggression while grooming
Aggression at the veterinarian
Chapter 21 Helping Buddy Handle Special Situations
Reacting to Loud Noises and Thunder
Coping with Separation Anxiety
Testing the desensitizing approach
Trying the DAP approach
Looking at some other options
Soiling the House
Dribbling and Submissive Wetting
Taking Buddy on the Road
Getting used to entering the vehicle
Staying put before exiting the vehicle
Getting ready for your road trip
Easing carsickness
Going to Doggie Daycare
Minding Your Manners at the Dog Park
Keeping Your Canine Calm at the Vet's Office
Being Patient with the Rescue Dog
Chapter 22 Keeping Your Senior Dog Young: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
Old Gray Muzzle: Exploring the Signs of Aging in Dog Years
Teaching Exercises to Keep Buddy's Mind and Body Sharp
Begging
Crawling
Walking backward
Doing neck and head stretches
Using the coffee table stretch
Walking, sitting, and downing
Swimming
Applying mental stimulation
Taking Care of Your Older Dog's Health and Nutrition Needs
Maintaining Buddy's slim and trim figure with a satisfying diet
Making life easier with supplements
Keeping Up with Grooming
Bringing Home a Puppy to Help Rejuvenate Buddy
Looking Into Dog Beds, Ramps, Wheelchairs, and Carts
Making Buddy cozy: Beds
Making heights more manageable with ramps
Helping the handicapped dog: Wheelchairs and carts
Chapter 23 Supplementing Your Training Efforts with Expert Help
Going to Obedience Training Class
Good obedience training class criteria
Puppy classes
Advanced classes
Hiring a Private Trainer
Sending Buddy to a Board and Train
Part 6 The Part of Tens
Chapter 24 Ten Training Traps and How to Avoid Them
Procrastinating on Basic Training
Buying into Attention-Seeking Behavior
Forgetting to Release Your Dog from a Stay
Eliminating Rewards Too Soon
Using Your Dog's Name as a Command
Having to Repeat Commands Away from Home
Punishing Your Dog When He Comes to You
Running After Your Dog
Expecting Too Much Too Quickly
Ignoring the Principle of Consistency
Chapter 25 Ten Fun and Exciting Sporting Activities
Agility Events
Tracking Titles
Barn Hunt AKC
Lure Coursing
Schutzhund Training
Flyball Competitions
Freestyle Performances
Dock Diving Dogs
Detection Dogs or Scent Work
Working as a Service Dog
Assistance dogs
Companions
Chapter 26 Ten Reasons Dogs Do What They Do
Why Do Dogs Insist on Jumping on People?
Why Do Dogs Sniff Parts of Your Anatomy That You'd Prefer They Didn't?
Why Do Male Dogs Lift Their Legs So Often?
Why Do Dogs Mount Each Other?
Why Do Dogs Like to Chase Things?
Why Do Dogs Roll in Disgusting Things?
Why Do Dogs Eat Weeds or Grass?
Why Do Dogs Hump Humans' Legs?
Why Do Dogs Scoot on Their Rear Ends?
Why Do Dogs Circle Before Lying Down?
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