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Bringing a dog home can make your family feel complete, but not everyone is ready to take on the responsibilities that come with owning a dog. It's why so many dogs end up in rescue centres. Adam Spivey is here to help. Over the last decade, he has built an amazing reputation for teaching families how to be safe and responsible with their pet at home, and has helped thousands of dogs overcome significant behavioural problems. This all-in-one book will give families the confidence and knowledge to properly train, take care of and establish a lasting bond with their well-behaved furry friends.

People Who Like Dogs Like People Who Like Dogs is a book about connection and friendship, love and loss, the vagaries of midlife and the deep solace that comes from an enduring relationship. It's about finding yourself when for too long you've been lost, and how even when, for whatever reason, horizons draw in, there's still plenty of adventure left. You just have to look harder for it.

Looks at each dog element archetype individually, exploring their personality strengths and weaknesses, emotional defaults, how they react under stress, what makes them happy, and their potential physical ailments and conditions.

He's herding the neighborhood kids!! Herding breed dogs such as Border Collies, Corgis, and Australian Shepherds have incredibly strong instinctive behaviors to do the work they were bred for controlling various kinds of livestock. These behaviors manifest themselves in modern herding breed dogs kept as companions or family pets in a number of ways. These include chasing cars and bicyclists, herding kids, nipping at vulnerable heels, barking incessantly, and acting as the fun police in dog parks.

For those who enjoyed Amazing Gracie or Merle’s Door, here is a completely new tale of a rescued dog who becomes the unlikely purveyor of a powerful gift. What if most people have it wrong, and miracles are not the exception but the norm? Flash’s Song is the true account of how one person discovered the secret of miracles. It is a story of the power of laughter, the power of family, and, ultimately, the power of love to get us through life.

Psychiatric service dog are specifically trained to help handlers with psychiatric disabilities. It can be of great use to people suffering from schizophrenia or post-traumatic stress disorder. Service dog training for psychiatric disabilities is a relative new comer to the world of the handicapped. It involves much more than just providing the comfort and companionship that a regular pet does. These dogs provide tangible lifesaving services for people with mental conditions.

Losing a pet feels like losing a part of yourself. They weren’t just animals—they were companions, confidants, and family. Their absence creates an empty space, leaving behind quiet moments and loneliness that can be hard to explain. Grieving a pet is deeply personal, layered with emotions like sadness, guilt, and anger. You may feel regretful over the things left undone. Memories bring both tears and smiles as the pain of their absence clashes with the joy they brought.

After the Rainbow Bridge is your compassionate guide to managing the tides of sorrow that follow the loss of a beloved pet. Our pets are a constant in our lives—they wait for us at home, give us comfort after a bad day at work, and snuggle close to us throughout the night as we sleep. And when we lose them, we feel their absence in every facet of our world, which makes dealing with our grief all the more overwhelming. But the special love they provided us lives on in our hearts long after they've passed.

Pet grief is still grief – this book about pet grief recovery offers emotional validation and practical guidance for your path toward healing. Pet loss is one of life's hardest emotional experiences. The empty food bowl that will never need filling again. The leash hanging silently by the door. The sudden stillness in spaces once filled with purrs, barks, or gentle footsteps. When we lose a pet, we lose not just an animal, but a piece of our daily life, a source of unconditional love, and a cherished soul who shared our most intimate moments.

Prolific and widely renowned, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic work "set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match" ( New York Review of Books). This newest book paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a beloved confidant: the pit bull called Rosie.

This easy-to-follow book lets you say goodbye to the embarrassment of calling your dog and getting no response, and hello to recall training that's fun and effective for you and your dog.

Eine informative sowie kompakte Zusammenfassung zum Thema Fährtenarbeit für Hunde. Beginnend bei den allgemeinen Grundlagen, Begriffen und Prinzipien dieser gemeinsam mit Ihrem Vierbeiner zu gestaltenden, spannenden und vor allem artgerechten Möglichkeit des Hundetrainings, begleite ich Sie mithilfe anschaulicher und alltagstauglicher Anwendungsbeispiele durch die verschiedenen Etappen des Erlernens der Fährtenlese sowie deren unterschiedliche Einsatzgebiete.

Morkies are a crossbreed of the Maltese and the Yorkshire terrier, bringing out the best of each breed. This crossbreed might possibly be the perfect dog. It is the ideal companion dog that loves to cuddle and has the exact dose of spunk to keep you active. The purpose of this audiobook is to define the common characteristics of Morkies in general. You will discover your Morkie's outstanding qualities and traits, and learn how to give it the best life ever.

Dog growling is exactly what every dog owner wants to avoid. This audiobook provides dog owners with the all the tips for learning why and how to stop your dog from growling.

All dogs are trainable, but some are easier than others. Your own puppy's success will depend on your ability to effectively communicate with him, in addition to your willingness to do drills with your dog on a daily basis. This course will give you all of the tools you need to begin making progress starting today and throughout the first year of your life together with your dog.

A Thousand Lifetimes will resonate with everything you knew, and hoped, was true. Here is the very real story of one woman’s life with rescue animals, and in particular, Celeste — a beloved canine who found a home in the author’s heart and never left. Celeste was plagued with a number of mysterious health problems. But despite being deaf, and being a dog, Celeste was able to communicate everything she was experiencing, thinking, and feeling through Carol, a professional Animal Communicator with the ability to converse with animals telepathically.

When Mark Doty went looking to adopt a small dog, a cuddly creature who might comfort his terminally ill partner, Wally Roberts, he was surprised to find himself returning home from an animal shelter with a full-grown golden retriever, a dog whose "absolute openess of regard", and paw gently offered through the bars of a cage, proved irresistable to him.

50 Things to Know About Dog Training by author Moni V. offers an introduction to what dog training is and how to choose the right training and trainer for your needs, outlining how dogs learn and how to learn from them as well as explaining why things are the way they are with our beloved BFF companions. It will cover some day-to-day examples about living with a dog and best practices fixing some of the most common problems.

There are so many factors that come into play when it comes to training your dog. This book comes packed with all useful information and no fluff that can help you navigate your way for training your dog, even with an e-collar. Let this guide take any overwhelming feeling you may have and put it at ease so that you can start enjoying the improved relationship between you and your furry friend. Even if you don’t have any prior experience, this guide will equip you with what you need to know in order to get started and implement successful training methods.

Is forest bathing for me and my dog? Yes! You don’t need a swimsuit - no special attire required. Forest bathing is accessible to all levels of fitness and mobility. It is a new (and very old) type of restorative stroll in the woods with your dog. Why do forest bathing with my dog? If you feel like you are bouncing from one thing to the next, never relaxing, forest bathing will reduce your stress, reset your nervous systems, have lasting positive effects on your immune system, and increase the well-being of both you and your dog.