How to Teach a New Dog Old Tricks by Ian Dunbar

How to Teach a New Dog Old Tricks by Ian Dunbar

Voted the #1 BEST BOK (1999) by the Association of Pet Dog Trainers - the largest and most influential worldwide association of professional pet dog trainers. Fun training with toys, treats, lures, and rewards. Easy, fun-loving, dog-friendly methods for teaching basic manners off-leash, and for temperament modification and behavior problem troubleshooting. Written from the dog's point of view and emphasizing natural motivational methods to teach your dog to want to do what you want him to do How To Teach A New Dog Old Tricks is the best book by dog training's leading genius. The most relevant, important piece ever written on the subject of dog behavior and training. Some fields are lucky enough to be granted a giant: a figure whose contributions inspire awe and are unsurpassable. Ian Dunbar is that in dog behavior. There is no single person on the face of the planet to whom dog trainers and owners (not to mention dogs) owe more. Jean Donaldson (author of The Culture Clash)

Dr Ian Dunbar PhD, BVetMed MRCVS DogStarDaily.com Dr Ian Dunbar is a veterinarian, animal behaviorist, and dog trainer who earned his veterinary degree and a Special Honors degree in Physiology and Biochemistry from the Royal Veterinary College (London University), as well as a doctorate in animal behavior from the Psychology Department at UC Berkeley, where he studied the evolution of social hierarchies and dog training. AFTER You Receive Your Puppy, How To Teach A New Dog Old Skills, and the SIRIUS(R) Puppy Training video are among his many books and videos on puppy/dog behavior and training. Dr. Dunbar created and taught SIRIUS(R) Puppy Training, the world's first off-leash puppy socialization and training sessions, in 1982. Following that, he founded and established the Animal Behavior Section of the San Francisco SPCA, the American Kennel Club's Gazette Behavior column, which he published for seven years, and the K9 GAMES(R), which began in San Francisco in 1993 and are now hosted annually in Japan and France. For five seasons, he hosted the popular UK television series Dogs With Dunbar, and he has been on a variety of radio and television shows, including the Today Show in the United States and Dash Village in Japan.

Dr. Dunbar has also served as a consultant on a number of films, including feature films, documentaries, and animation (including Pixar's UP), and he has presented twice at the prestigious eg Conference. Dr. Dunbar has presented during 1000 seminars and workshops for dog trainers and veterinarians throughout the world in an effort to popularize off-leash puppy socialization classes, temperament modification, and owner-friendly and dog-friendly dog training over the past 35 years. Dr. Dunbar was admitted into the Dog Fancy Hall of Fame in 1993, with four of his heroes, James Herriot, Konrad Lorenz, Lassie, and Balto, after founding the Association of Pet Dog Trainers. Dr. Dunbar is currently the President of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers Foundation, the Top Dog of the Center for Applied Animal Behavior, and the Vice President of www.dogstardaily.com, a free online, multi-media puppy-raising and dog-training website.

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ISBN 13	9781888047066
ISBN 10	1888047062
Title	How to Teach a New Dog Old Tricks
Author	Ian Dunbar
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	James & Kenneth Publishers
Year published	1996-12-31
Number of pages	192
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