How to Train Your Dog: Transform Your Dog's Behavior and Strengthen Your Bond Forever A Dog Training Book($11.60Value)

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Everything you need to know to tackle your dog’s behavioral issues and understand how your dog thinks, from the trainer behind social media sensation Southend Dog Training Do you wish you could get your dog to behave better? Southend Dog Training founder Adam Spivey can help. In this indispensable book, he helps you build a better connection with your dog at any age and solve any behavioral issues with simple, proven training techniques. He won’t just tell you what to do to get your dog to listen to your commands; he will also help you to understand how your dog thinks and why they might be struggling with certain things. How to Train Your Dog will help you and your dog with • Leash training, recall, and reactivity when you’re both out and about • Jumping, excessive barking, and reactions to the TV or doorbell • Dos and don’ts for households with children and/or multiple dogs • Chewing, biting, and destructive behavior   Whether your dog is old or young, from a breeder or is a rescue, and has big or small issues, Adam’s inimitable straight-talking approach will get you to a better place with your best friend. Adam Spivey is the author of How to Raise the Perfect Dog and How to Train Your Dog . Known for his straight-talking approach to training and no-nonsense attitude, he has been training dogs for over a decade and has earned legions of fans and clients. Adam partnered with Evan Norfolk to develop Southend Dog Training, an online training platform, now with millions of followers and thousands of members worldwide. Chapter 1 What to expect When we start to train a dog at SDT, the very first thing we do is go back to the basics. And for us that means checking that there’s nothing getting in the way of you and your pet’s learning. We’ve done the same in this book. You’ll see we start in chapter 2 with checking if your dog is in optimum health and if a trip to the vet could help with some of the problems you may be experiencing. It’s not uncommon for pain or medical issues to be affecting how a dog behaves. Then in chapter 3 we move on to explaining SDT’s three-point formula for success, covering diet, exercise, and teaching the dog an off-switch, which will ensure that your dog is at their very best. In chapter 4, we explore your readiness for training too, because what you do and feel on the other end of the leash is just as important to getting where you want to be. Here we also discuss how to use journaling to track the progress you and your dog make, and at the back of the book you’ll find that we’ve included some sample pages so you can take this habit forward. With this great foundation in place, we’ll move on to cover the basics of our training methods in chapter 5, such as the art of attention and common commands. From there the book begins to delve much deeper into solving specific behavioral problems you’re working with, dedicating chapters to issues such as problems inside the house. In parts II and III of the book, we cover everything from separation anxiety, multi-dog households, leash walking, socialization, reactivity, and, everyone’s favorite, recall! These later chapters will explain what’s going wrong and how to fix it. As you read the book, look out for the QR codes along the way. You can scan these with your smartphone and use the password “SDTBook” to be taken directly to a relevant training video on our website. This will help you to see the theory we discuss put into practice. You can return to these videos when you want to refresh your learning. Working through the book in this way will help you reach your training goals in no time. A quick word about rescue dogs First up, though, I want to talk about something that’s massively important and something that is dear to my heart. That’s right—rescue dogs. If you don’t already have a dog, you might be on the fence about getting an older dog from a rescue center. You might be thinking about adopting one that could perhaps come with some behavioral baggage but that you feel you can help using the guidelines in this book. Maybe you are an experienced dog owner reading this and are looking to hone your craft and gain more knowledge. If you want to take on a more difficult dog that perhaps has had a traumatic past, keep reading, we’ve got you. Let me tell you right now, at the time of writing this book, there are approximately 3.1 million dogs entering US animal shelters every year, and most of them are there through no fault of their own. Most dogs are surrendered to rescue centers because of human selfishness. Perhaps it was because they didn’t do proper research into the breed or because of a dodgy breeder churning out puppies that go on to have problems. Maybe the previous owner couldn’t be bothered to put the work in and train the dog when it was a puppy, and now that the dog is bigger they can’t be arsed and it’s a problem. Some dogs are sent to a rescue center because they aren’t fast enough for racin