Product Description

How to overcome your dog's problem behaviour: an essential guide for all dog owners. Have you ever asked: Why does my dog...bark when he is left alone? ...jump up at visitors? ....refuse to come when i call him? ....pull on the lead? ...urinate when i greet him? ...growl when i try to take a toy from him?. This practical, authoritative book, written by a leading dog behaviour expert with long experience of helping owners of problem dogs, gives you the answers and explains how to change your dog's behaviour without resorting to punishment. What does your dog eat? Where does he sleep? How much exercise and socialising does he get? How has he been trained? All these can lead to problems if you do not bear in mind how a dog's mind works. Above all, you need to understand the instincts he has inherited from his wolf ancestors, which make him respond in ways that are quite normal but may cause problems for you. John Fisher provides fascinating insights into the roots of dog behaviour and takes you through an A-Z of specific problems with solutions that any dog owner can use successfully. Written with the needs of both dog and owner in mind, this helpful and enlightening book will ensure that your dog becomes a happy and acceptable member of the household.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39859 in Books
• Published on: 1999-04-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Synopsis
John Fisher believes that many dog-related p roblems stem from the owner''s failure to understand the anim al''s motivations, reactions and needs. He explains how a dog ''s behaviour is affected by diet, outmoded training methods and environment. '

Customer Reviews

Essential Reading for students of dog behaviour
This book is on the reading list for Compass Education and Training, it's packed with easy to read quality information. A must for any dog owner.

good but not great
This book is a good book to trouble shoot your dogs issues, but not very indepth, it does cover a wide range of problems but none particularly in depth. It's a good book for the general dog owner, but i feel could have covered each subject in more detail. It also doesn't always tell you what to do about the problem once you've found it. This book covers a quantity of problems, but lacks quality, i'd like to know more abbout each problem rather than skimming the surface and moving on the the next topic. Although this book is a good introduction to dog psychology type of subject matter and i would advise it for anyone who feels that standard training books are becoming repetitive, and wants a book that is more detailed in the reasons rather than just the cure.

Touching, truthful and fun
When reading this book you could be reading about your own dog, your friend's dog, your parent's old dog, or that dog up the road that really barks when you walk by. Fisher has caught them all to a tee. My only criticism was that it was maybe not practical enough, but it was certainly enlightening and educational. Both my colleague & I said after reading it, we now know why we have being doing it all wrong for all these years!