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If you're like most dog owners, you want a trustworthy companion you can take on family vacations, to ball games, on hikes, and to cafes and festivals. You want your dog to behave when you have guests, stay peacefully at hotels, ride calmly in elevators, and maintain proper doggie decorum in all kinds of situations.
Chances are, you've watched and admired assistance and therapy dogs who are attentive to their owners' needs no matter what. This book taps into the secrets of assistance and therapy dog trainers and shows you how to use focused foundation socialization training to make sure your dog is well behaved--even in unfamiliar environments loaded with distractions and temptations. It goes beyond typical behavioral training and basic commands and covers:
- Evaluating your dog and recognizing traits that will affect her needs
- Using reward-based processes to teach complex behaviors and self-discipline
- Creating a socialization program that makes your dog focused on you and confident in different environments
- Reading your dog so you can anticipate her reactions and keep her focused on your directions
With these sophisticated training techniques, you'll turn your family pet into a sociable, take-anywhere dog who will always be welcome!
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If you're like most dog owners, you want a trustworthy companion you can take on family vacations, to ball games, on hikes, and to cafes and festivals. You want your dog to behave when you have guests, stay peacefully at hotels, ride calmly in elevators, and maintain proper doggie decorum in all kinds of situations.
Chances are, you've watched and admired assistance and therapy dogs who are attentive to their owners' needs no matter what. This book taps into the secrets of assistance and therapy dog trainers and shows you how to use focused foundation socialization training to make sure your dog is well behaved—even in unfamiliar environments loaded with distractions and temptations. It goes beyond typical behavioral training and basic commands and covers:
Evaluating your dog and recognizing traits that will affect her needs
Using reward-based processes to teach complex behaviors and self-discipline
Creating a socialization program that makes your dog focused on you and confident in different environments
Reading your dog so you can anticipate her reactions and keep her focused on your directions
With these sophisticated training techniques, you'll turn your family pet into a sociable, take-anywhere dog who will always be welcome!
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A Dog Who's Always Welcome,
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This review is from: A Dog Who's Always Welcome: Assistance and Therapy Dog Trainers Teach You How to Socialize and Train Your Companion Dog (Paperback)
Great tool for any dog owner and particularly good for those who raise working dogs that require good manners wherever they go.
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3.5 out of 5 stars (11 customer reviews) 24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
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Where are the training chapters?,
By S. J. Pfrimmer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Dog Who's Always Welcome: Assistance and Therapy Dog Trainers Teach You How to Socialize and Train Your Companion Dog (Paperback)
I only found two pages devoted to tips for training in this book. The rest of the book just went on and on about how great therapy dogs behave in public, giving examples of their wonderful behavior in various situations. I kept reading, thinking they'd get to the part where they tell you how you too, can have such an admirable dog. But that part never came. Very disappointing book.
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one of the best books on socialization i've read yet,
By Emily L. Burlingame - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: A Dog Who's Always Welcome: Assistance and Therapy Dog Trainers Teach You How to Socialize and Train Your Companion Dog (Paperback)
i first saw this book when i was at a local book store and being a professional dog trainer, it peaked my interest. i only read a little in the store but thought it so good i went and ordered it on amazon (r). the rest of the book was anything but a disappointment. the author presents the techniques that professional service and therapy dog trainers use for socializing their working dogs in an easy to understand and use format for the average pet owner. there are many classes and instructors out there that spend most of their time teaching the all important sit, stay, heel exercises to students but when it comes to socialization they spend about 5 minutes or so simply saying to expose your dog to as many new situations and dogs as possible so they wont be afraid of them later. few people really understand the ART of socialization and how to develop a productive plan for socializing your dog. this book does not only that but also gives information on testing dogs to find out what the social "problem areas" might be so an extra emphasis can be placed on working through those issues. the book also gives great information on how a much deeper, more rewarding relationship with their dogs pet owners can have if their dogs are socialized well enough and have the "manners" to acompany them in to dog friendly public places. using service dog training as a model for the ideal companion dog . i think this book is a must for any trainer teaching pet and puppy classes and a great resource for any pet owner looking for more out of their relationship with their dog.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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A good book for dog lovers, not for people who need solutions.,
By constantinemacris@hotmail.com - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Dog Who's Always Welcome: Assistance and Therapy Dog Trainers Teach You How to Socialize and Train Your Companion Dog (Paperback)
I think this book has some great information but generally has not helped me reach my socialization goals. It gives generals guidelines for best outcome situations but really just touches on personal experiences with an attempt at categorizing them into useful chapters. I could write a book about all the issues I have had training my dog, or how my dog didn't like the water and when I pulled him in he was unhappy. It gives no real assistance on any techniques to socialize or train. It talks about rewarding dogs with treats but doesn't help explain how to move them away from treats. It says that dogs should be driven by play time or a treat but then also says your praise should be the treat. How do you get from point A to point B, what are normal timelines, how do we know if we are making progress? What do you do if your dog is at an outdoor market and pulls your arm out of your socket because it sees something it wants. Do you just talk to it in a low voice and offer her a treat? Nope, because she already ran over three kids and tripped up an old lady trying to get to that toy poodle across the street. You are supposed to talk to your dog but realize, it is a dog and it doesn't understand your worlds just your tone of voice... In a perfect world the ideas a great but I really expected more in the form of tips and pointers and less extolling the virtues of trainers. They are professional trainers, I know they are good at what they do. If you love dogs and have a well trained dog you will love this book. If you have a problem dog this book will frustrate you and not provide you with the answers you need. I have a very well socialized dog and gained a bunch of knowledge from the book but it only helped to make a good dog better, it didn't help me get my dog to the next step. It was a fun read for what it was but the title is misleading.
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