Product Description

"Common sense dog training produces dogs with common sense". This comprehensive, illustrated guide gives sound advice to enable you to understand your dog's mind, its instincts and perception of life and explains how to communicate successfully with your dog by using body language your canine companion understands.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #236414 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Review
'A superbly written book ! a very necessary addition for anyone interested in dogs, and how and why they behave as they do.' Dog Training Weekly

About the Author
Barbara Sykes has spent her life amongst animals, studying their behaviour and instincts. She owns and runs Mainline Border Collie Centre. She regularly gives talks on dog behaviour and produces a bi-monthly magazine. This is her third book for Crowood.

Customer Reviews

a very easy to read approach to dog training
Barbara Sykes has written a very amusing and interesting approach to understanding a dog's mind and how to train it using that knowledge. I now understand some of the mistakes I've made by giving out false signals, not realising that the dog reads our body language before it learns human words. The book is well written with relevant photos, the type of book you can refer back to again and again. I would recommend all dog owners read and enjoy it.

Very good information - but took a little working at
I found this book very helpful and it is helping to tranform my retalionship with my rather manic dog. It is mostly about developing a great relaionship with your dog where they respect you. She has some good practical advice.

The book did feel hard work in places - there was a lot to take in, but it was worth the effort - quite a unique book - go for it if you feel when push comes to shove you dog pleases him/her self more than doing what you ask of him/her