Bonding with Your Dog by Victoria Schade

Bonding with Your Dog by Victoria Schade

The human-canine bond: a relationship steeped in love with equal parts mutual respect, trust, and regard

In this groundbreaking book, professional dog trainer Victoria Schade reveals that a successful relationship between you and your dog isn't about establishing yourself as the pack leader, but about building a meaningful bond. She explains how this bond forms the core of your entire relationship; if it's lacking, it's the primary source of any frustration you may be having with your dog.

First, you'll take a quiz to help you gauge your current relationship with your dog. Next, you'll learn the building blocks for creating a positive, mutually rewarding bond-from granting privileges to being unpredictable to offering ample praise and playtime. You'll discover how a bonded dog:

• Listens to obedience cues
• Wants you in her sightlines, even in intriguing environments
• Doesn't escape through open doorways
• Understands and follows your house rules
• Wants to be close to you and work with you
• Truly trusts and respects you

Whether you share your heart and home with a puppy, an adolescent, or a senior dog, it's never too early or too late to build a bond to last a lifetime-and this book shows you how.

Victoria Schade has been a dog trainer for more than fourteen years and has worked with thousands of dogs and owners to hone her unique dog-handling and coaching technique. She has worked on television shows like Animal Planet's annualPuppy Bowl, The Puppy Games, the Smithsonian Channel's special Animals Aloft, and on various commercials. She was also the featured trainer on the Animal Planet show Faithful Friends for two seasons. Her gentle engaging style has led to regular television appearances, including CBS's The Early Show and WE tv. Victoria created the puppy-training DVD New Puppy! Now What? to assist overwhelmed puppy owners, and wrote Bonding with Your Dog: A Trainer's Secrets for Building a Better Relationship to help dogs and their people create a stronger connection. Victoria frequently serves as a resource for the media on topics related to dog handling and puppy training and has been quoted in outlets such as the Washington Post, Martha Stewart Living, Real Simple, Dog Fancy magazine, The Bark magazine, Dogs USA Magazine, and many breed-specific Training Secrets magazines. Victoria is a proud dog mom to Millie the Smooth Brussels Griffon and Olive the mixed-breed dog.

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ISBN 13	9780470409152
ISBN 10	0470409150
Title	Bonding with Your Dog
Author	Victoria Schade
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Turner Publishing Company
Year published	2009-04-01
Number of pages	224
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.