Synopses & Reviews
The Dog Tricks and Training Workbook is a follow-up guide to 101 Dog Tricks. This new book invites the reader to focus on 30 foundational tricks and to track and gauge his or her progress in teaching them. The workbook explores integral behavior and training concepts, which enhance not only the dog's performance but the overall relationship between dog and owner. The accompanying deck of 30 trick cards illustrate the step-by-steps of the tricks themselves, and the associated online video tutorials are excellent teaching tools for the working, training, and bonding sessions outlined in the workbook.
Synopsis
This follow-up guide to the internationally best-selling 101 Dog Tricks invites you to focus on 30 foundational tricks and to track and gauge your progress in teaching them with 30 trick cards, a workbook, and online video tutorials. The program will enhance not only your dog's performance, but your overall relationship with your dog.
With this workbook, learn the core concepts of dog training, and apply those concepts in training 30 different tricks. As you progress, you will find directions to pull certain trick cards that illustrate the step-by-step instructions for teaching that trick. The online videos supplement and enhance these instructions with video sequences of the tricks. As you work from level to level, you will master the key elements of dog training--timing, technique, motivation, and building on known behaviors--as you achieve a stronger bond with your dog. Each section concludes with review quizzes and prompts to re-evaluate your knowledge, your dog's progress, and your relationship.
The numbered trick cards identify the difficulty level and the specific skill reinforced for each trick. The tricks are explained with step-by-step instructional text and photos, with space for notes and logging your progress, and range from basic (Sit, Shake Hands, Paws Up) to advanced (Newspaper Delivery, Tidy Up Your Toys, Get a Soda from the Fridge).
With this complete curriculum in dog tricks, you will establish a conscious and consistent pattern of relating to your dog in a meaningful partnership based on trust, communication, and respect.
About the Author
Kyra Sundance is a world-acclaimed stunt dog show performer, dog trainer, and internationally best-selling author. Her dog team performs live acrobatic shows on premier stages internationally; at circuses, professional sports halftime shows, and on movies and television shows such as
The Tonight Show, Ellen, Entertainment Tonight, Worldwide Fido Awards, Animal Planet, Showdog Moms & Dads, and Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2. Kyra and her dogs starred in Disney’s
Underdog stage show and in a command performance at the palace in Marrakech for the king of Morocco.
Kyra has written numerous popular dog-training books including the international best-selling 101 Dog Tricks, and hosts a line of award-winning dog-training DVDs. She also set-trains dog actors for movies and TV and lectures on positive dog-training methods.
Kyra is nationally ranked in competitive dog sports, having trained, competed, and titled in a great number of dog sports. Her methods foster confident, happy dogs who are motivated to do the right thing rather than ones fearful of making a mistake. She shows us how to develop joyful relationships with dogs who balance enthusiasm with self-control.
Kyra and her Weimaraners Chalcy and Jadie live with Kyra’s husband on a ranch in California’s Mojave desert. www.kyra.com