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Categori: common dog knowledge På Talefod med hunden (2003) - de daempende signaler (on talking hand with the dog – the calming signals) Turid Rugaas Canis, www.canis.dk the book: In this book you can read about the various calming signals. You can learn to observe and to “read” your dog better. You can learn to understand what your dog is trying to tell you. You can learn to use the signals your self so that your dog understand you better. You will In other words, be able to be “on talking hand with your dog.

Categori: Training methods, learning psykology Klikkertraening for din hund (2007, new edition) (Clicker training for your dog) Morten Egtvedt & Cecilie Koeste Canis, www.canis. The book Clicker training is an incredible and fascinating training method, where you can teach your dog everything what it physically and mentally is able to do, the experienced clicker trainer will say. Fortunately, clicker training is not only for the professionally dog trainers. Everybody can learn to train their dogs in an effective way, and in this book you learn how. To start with the book gives you a thorough entry in the theory behind clicker training. You learn to understand why dogs do what they do, and how the learn. And you learn the four secrets how to become a “super trainer”. In the practical part of the book you learn how to teach the important everyday obedience that all dogs should master: * contact * Call in * Walk in a leash * greet nice * Fetch * All in all 18 useful exercises Besides that you also learn how to teach various impressive circus tricks. Teach the dog to: * Turn on the light * put the clothes in and taking it out of the washing machine * bring soda pops from the fridge * fetch the mail from the mailbox * A total of 12 funny circus acts! The book is written in an easy, and at times humoristic manner, but the authors deep theoretic and practical acts, shines through all the time. This book will give you a new view on dog training – and you will barely be able to wait, on start training in praxis.

Category: Learning psychology, training methods Skyd ikke hunden (Don't Shoot the Dog) Karen Pryor www.canis.no At this time the book is available in Norwegian and english. The book "Don`t Shoot the Dog!" Is currently regarded as one of the most important dog books of our time. Now it is here in Norwegian in an expanded version. This is how ever much more than just a dog book. “Don’t shoot the dog” is about training and learning in general. The basics of learning are universal and are the same for dogs, cats, squid, dolphins and people. Never before has such a complex subject as learning psychology been promoted in a so understandable but also humoristic manner. This book can turn your view on dog training up side down, and also influence on the way you interact with people you meet in your everyday.

Category:common dog knowledge, the gathering of the most recent researc DOMINANS OG LEDERSKAP - FAKTA ELLER OVERTRO? 2002 /2007 (Dominance and leadership – Fact or superstition ? Barry Eaton Canis, www.canis.dk The book For many years the dog owner has been raised to think, that “leadership” is the solution on all dog problems, and that every dog problem is caused by the lack of leadership. Dog owners have been told that they have to dominate their dogs in order to avoid the dog taking over the leadership role in the family. The people saying so often draws parallels to the wolf pack and how the bitch treats its cubs. But is this fact or superstition ? Is the dog really aiming to become the patriarch of the family ? Has it really got a build in need to climb the hierarchy and dominate its owner ? How valid is the comparison between wolfs And dogs ? Is the dog a pack animal at all ?? and what is the alternative to the leadership thought ? This is some of the questions that will be answered in this little book from the English dog instructor Barry Eaton. The book has already drawn attention in the US as well as the UK.