The Big Book of Simple Solutions
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The most common training issues that dog owners face are addressed in The Book of Simple Solutions: Training Your Dog by dog expert Kim Campbell Thornton. From the publisher of Dog Fancy magazine, this fun fact-filled volume offers solutions to barking, chewing, digging, house-training issues, aggression, and bad doggy manners (begging, jumping up, marking, etc.). Buck Jones's hilarious color cartoons should not distract dog owners from the serious matters at hand, but solving canine behavior problems are better handled with know-how, patience, and good dose of humor-all of which are delivered handily in this compact 224-page Simple Solutions book.
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Kim Campbell Thornton is an award-winning writer and editor. She has written and contributed to more than a dozen books about dogs and cats. She lives in Lake Forest, CA.
Content
- Front Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- House-Training
- The Secret to Successful House-Training
- How Long Does it Take?
- How Do I House-Train My Puppy?
- It's Cold Outside. Can I Paper-Train Him First?
- Reward Performance
- The Benefits of a Crate
- Preventing Potty Problems
- What Goes in Must Come Out
- Accidents Happen
- Cleaning Up
- Chewing
- Why Do Dogs Chew?
- When Chewing Becomes a Problem
- Dog-Proofing Your Home
- What Should Dogs Chew?
- Teaching Your Dog to Chew Toys
- Ways to Redirect Problem Chewing
- Preventing a Chewing Problem
- Digging
- Why Do Dogs Dig?
- Digging for Fun
- Digging for Prey
- Digging for Shelter
- Digging for Attention
- Digging out of Anxiety
- Digging to Escape
- More Ways to Prevent Digging
- How to Deter Digging
- Correcting Digging Behavior
- Barking
- Why Do Dogs Bark?
- Who Barks and Why?
- When Barking Becomes a Problem
- Solving a Barking Problem
- If You Want Your Dog to Act As a Watchdog
- Be Patient
- Bark-Control Devices
- Puppy Preschool
- Aggression
- What Is Aggression?
- What Does Aggression Look Like?
- Bully Boy or Fearful Fido?
- Other Types of Aggression
- Who Ya Gonna Call?
- Dealing with Aggression
- Changing a Dog's Behavior
- Can Drugs Help?
- Diet and Exercise
- What Not to Do
- What's the Prognosis?
- Obedience
- Petiquette for Pooches
- Who's the Boss?
- The Social Graces of the Urbane Dog
- Beauty Is As Beauty Does
- Sitting Pretty
- Jumping Up
- On or Off the Furniture?
- Mealtime Manners
- Come When Called
- No Marking Please!
- The Eleven Commandments of Good Dog Ownership
