Dog-On Good Beginning Obedience and Basic Manners Course Volume 1: Volume 1: The Evaluation

Description

Everyone wants a well-trained dog, most people can train, some have the drive and fortitude to follow through, but only a few have the basic knowledge and methods needed to train their dog successfully. If you are a proud owner of an untrained, unruly or "out of control" dog, this simple, easy to follow but effective plan on how to train your dog into enjoyable and pleasant companion will be exactly the help that you need. If you are planning to read just this volume or you intend to read the entire training series, you have already taken the first step necessary to gain this knowledge. The training plan presented in this series of books will not only provide you with the basic knowledge that you need to communicate your wants and desires to your dog, but will also show you how to produce a dog that desires to understand what you want and then one who will voluntarily modify his behavior to please you. Dog-On Good Dog's Beginning Obedience and Basic Manners course provides you with a simple to understand and easy to follow method to train your dog into an enjoyable and pleasant companion. This training course is structured such that you can either go through the entire course from the beginning to end or you can pick and choose the portions of the course that apply to your situation. First, you are given detailed explanations of dog sociology and canine pack mentality, so you will know the "Why" behind your dog's inappropriate behaviors. Then you are presented with a well-rounded training program of incremental training exercises and problem-solving's, so that you will know the "How," to change the undesirable behaviors in your dog. The series is divided into sixteen different volumes. Each volume has been published as a separate book. The total course consists of an "Evaluation" book, used to help you narrow down your training needs, eight books of "Lessons," that consist of a series of sequential exercises, and seven "Problem-solving" books that address specific problem areas with which your dog may need some help. In the Evaluation book, the first volume of this training course, you will be shown how make an accurate assessment of your dog behavior and determine his training needs. Because the key to turning your dog from an untrained, unruly or out of control dog into a well behaved canine companion is to understand the genetically preconditioned social behaviors that your dog has inherited from his ancestors in the wild, this volume will give you an overview of the pack sociology, give you an understanding of the hierarchical social order within the pack and teach you how your dog's instinctual drives will manifest in your family. The survival of the pack is the driving force behind these genetically preconditioned social behaviors that your dog has inherited, so you will be shown how dogs typically form a pack, how the social order functions within the pack and how each dog interrelates with the other dogs within this social order. When people domesticated dogs, the dog.