Updated January 10, 2002

The BEST in Dog Books and Gifts!!

 Training Puppies

	**How To Raise a Puppy You Can Live With: Rutherford and Neil Our favorite puppy training book! This goes home before we send our puppies home . I STILL get into it myself when raising babies and young dogs. Visual learner? Get the Video! How To Raise a Puppy You Can Live With Video has darling puppies to enjoy and shows you how to civilize them, step by step!
	PUPPY LOVE: RAISE YOUR DOG THE CLICKER WAY Karen Pryor It's amazing how quickly the babies respond to positive reinforcement; a great start for an obedience or agility prospect and for your sweet pet!
	**SIRIUS PUPPY TRAINING BOOK AND VIDEO SET Just one of Ian Dunbar's MANY fine training books! It's really hard to decide which to recommend because they are all so good. This is one of his first and best.
	Training Kids to Train Their Puppies
	CHILD PROOFING YOUR DOG Brian Kilcommons GOT KIDS? My eight year old granddaughter is part puppy, but this book helps channel some of that play into play-training! Too many dogs come into rescue because they are too rough with young kids. Here's a solution.
	DOG TRAINING FOR CHILDREN Ian Dunbar again. He's as good with kids as he is with dogs!
	DOG TRAINING FOR KIDS Carol Lea Benjamin is a great writer, fun and funny, and full of common sense about dog training for kids and for adults. City-based, she doesn't expect everybody to have an acre of fenced yard. (ON SALE at the moment, too!)
	You're Not Through Yet! Training for Grown-ups
	GOOD OWNERS GREAT DOGS Brian Kilcommons and Sara Wilson. They break the work down into little, positive steps and explain WHY to do the steps in sequence. Well organized, understandable and easy to learn. Loads of pictures. (ON SALE, cut price)
	MOTHER KNOWS BEST Carol Lea Benjamin A great training book for pet dogs, full of good advice and fun to read and work with. Not a competition training book. (ON SALE; new edition soon)
	CHOOSE TO HEEL Dawn Jecs Positive foundation for competitive (novice) obedience, positive off-leash training and attention from the start.
	**COMPETITION OBEDIENCE: A BALANCING ACT Judy Byron and Adele Yunck Judy was on the old Competitive Obedience mailing list, always ready to help and a great trainer! Exercises from Novice to Utility.
	CLICKER TRAINING FOR DOGS Karen Pryor is the clicker-training pioneer. Train with positive reinforcement. Good introduction to the concept and techniques.
	CLICKER TRAINING FOR OBEDIENCE Morgan Spector was on the Competitive Obedience mailing list too. This is the one if you are doing competitive obedience. Lots of hints for the "crossover" trainer who has begun traditional training and wants to add a clicker element.
	EXCELLING AT DOG AGILITY Jane Simmons-Moake Step-by-step instructions for each agility obstacle.
	GO THE DISTANCE: TRAINING YOUR DOG TO WORK AWAY Bud Houston and Stacy Peardo. Eight lessons to teach your dog to work away from you in agility (but helps with real life, too.). Essential if, like me, you can't run (or hope to keep up!) Makes agility possible for slowpokes, and makes scores better for those-that-can-run!
	PEAK PERFORMANCE Chris Zink is an orthopedic Vet who really knows structure. This book helps you coach your canine athlete by giving you an understanding of structure. Teaches warm-ups, and performance without injury.

** These are the essentials!

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