101 Dog Tricks: Step by Step Activities to Engage, Challenge, and Bond with Your Dog

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101 Dog Tricks: Step by Step Activities to Engage, Challenge, and Bond with Your Dog

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101 Dog Tricks is the largest trick book on the market and the only one presenting full-color photos of each trick and its training steps? The step-by-step approach, difficulty rating, and prerequisites, allow readers to start training immediately. Tips and trouble-shooting boxes cover common problems, while "build-on" ideas suggest more complicated tricks which build on each new skill. No special tools (such as clickers) or knowledge of specific training methods are required. Trick training is a great way to bond with your dog and help him integrate into your family. It keeps him mentally and physically challenged and helps to establish paths of communication between you. Many tricks build skills needed for common dog sports, dog dancing, and dog therapy work. It's every dog lover's privilege that Kyra and Chalcy took time from their performing schedule to share their secrets in 101 Dog Tricks.

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1 of 1 found this review helpful:

Don't Let the Title Fool You, 2008-07-09
While I am a many time author and know it's proven that the "101..." titles sell, I usually shy away from them. But thanks to the reviews on Amazon I bought this book. As reviewers wrote, this book is excellent.
It's the "Dog Tricks" part that suggested it isn't a serious dog training book; but serious it is. Yes, some of these could be called "tricks", but all of the basics that are so necessary to teach one's dog to get along in the human world are there: sit, down, stay, come, etc.
The way the book is laid out with two pages for each exercise and the clear writing and backup information makes it super easy for a complete novice to understand and teach themselves and then their dog these exercises.
Dogs love to please us and doing these positive training exercises truly works. Do him or her a favor and stick to a daily training plan.

3 of 3 found this review helpful:

The person who said 'buy 3 copies' was right..., 2008-06-27
This book has been great!! I am on my 2nd copy, as I gave the first one away to a friend who fell in love with it, and am planning on buying a 3rd copy to send to another friend.

This book is very easy to follow and a pleasure to page through. The photo's are fun, and make it a good pick for kids, who might not enjoy reading directions, as you can pretty much just follow the pictures. It includes hand signals and verbal cues, a lists of previous tricks to be mastered, and skill level. Whenever I run into a problem I go to the 'trouble shooting' section in the margin next to each trick, and it always has anticipated the snag and offers a helpful solution.

So far my chihuahua can sit, lay down, beg, shake hands, twirl, and roll over!! Not bad for a breed known for being yappy and being carted around like Cleopatra in handbags! I have had the book for about 5 months. We work all the tricks every night after her dinner. It's her 'school' and she loves it! I think she has become more confident since we started training. I know she feels very proud of herself when she does it right.

I highly recommend this book.

0 of 0 found this review helpful:

Look No Further...., 2008-06-20
Everything you need is right here. Gorgeous layout, detailed instructions, lots of pictures, every trick you could want and more.
Get ready to have the dog that's the life of the party. Enjoy!

1 of 1 found this review helpful:

wonderful for 1st time dog owner!!! , 2008-06-18
This is coming from the point of view of a first time dog owner. I had a dog when I was a kid, but this is my first to really be fully responsible for. I just got him a few months ago, he is 2 years old and a cattle / aussie herding type. I already taught him sit, stay, down, come, on my own but since he's smart I wanted to teach him more.

WOW he is going to learn everything in this book. The book offers great straight-forward techniques that really WORK. It's easy to pick out 2-4 tricks to work on at a time, as each trick has a dedicated page or 2-page spread.

In 3 days of having this book, my dog has already learned "shake hands" and "crawl", and he's on the way to knowing more including "jump over my leg", "bow" and "say your prayers". I would have had no idea how to train him to do these things but the real photos of the process for each command, as well as the real world common problems that happen with each command & tips to overcome them are fantastic.

I especially love that these tricks help continue to build the bond between me and my dog, as well as my role as his leader. He really seems to enjoy the training time and focuses in earnest. (Maybe it's the extra special treats that accompany the sessions :)

1 of 1 found this review helpful:

This book is amazing! , 2008-06-05
Kyra and her beautiful Weimaraner Chalcy take us step by step through teaching our furry children new tricks. Starting from the basic obedience trick training (sit, down, stay, etc), to more elaborate expert tricks like jumping rope. This book does a wonderful job of breaking down the teaching methods, positioning, hand cues, and trouble shooting. There's even prerequisites to different tricks. I recommend this book to all dog parents. It's a must have!!!

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