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The New Knowledge of Dog Behavior
Author: Clarence Pfaffenberger
Binding: Paperback
Price: $9.01
Without a doubt one of the most valuable books written, not only to the average dog owner but a MUST for the dog breeder and trainer. Pfaffenberger's work combined with Dr. Scotts and Fullers produced Guide Dogs for the Blind with a success rate of up to 98%.Any dog breeder or trainer who hasn't got this collection of incredible research in their library is really missing out. LOVE IT....LOVE IT....LOVE IT.
| Milk Teeth: A Memoir of a Woman and Her Dog
Author: Robbie Pfeufer Kahn
Binding: Paperback
Price: $17.96
Dogs are the most popular pet in the United States and a beloved family member to many. As with a human baby, a puppy's innocent wild behavior can provoke unkind treatment. The source of this unfortunate but common reaction often lies in the past the family history of the caretaker.
Written as a year-long journal, Milk Teeth chronicles sociologist Robbie Pfeufer Kahn s struggle to achieve a loving relationship with her black Labrador puppy, Laska. Mirthful, mischievous, intelligent, and strong-willed, Laska challenges her owner s attempts at leadership and affection. The puppy refuses pats, jumps up, and mouths with needle-sharp teeth. To her dismay, Kahn reacts with fear and anger, sometimes treating Laska roughly. Strangely, these encounters produce flashbacks from Kahn's diminished childhood and with the help of dog trainers, psychotherapy, and literature and theory from a variety
| The African Wild Dog: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation (Monographs in Behavior and Ecology)
Author: Scott Creel
Binding: Paperback
Price: $42.75
With only 5,000 surviving, the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) is one of the world's most endangered large carnivores--and one of the most remarkable. This comprehensive portrait of wild dogs incorporates previously scattered information with important new findings from a six-year study in Tanzania's Selous Game Reserve, Africa's largest protected area. The book emphasizes ecology, concentrating on why wild dogs fare poorly in protected areas that maintain healthy populations of lions, hyenas, or other top carnivores. In addition to conservation issues, it covers fascinating aspects of wild dog behavior and social evolution. The Creels use demographic, behavioral, endocrine, and genetic approaches to examine how and why nonbreeding pack mates help breeding pairs raise their litters. They also present the largest data set ever collected on mammalian predator-prey interactions and the
| Fun and Games With Dogs: Educational and Fun Games to Teach Your Dog to Enjoy Working With You
Author: Roy Hunter
Binding: Spiral-bound
Price: $24.95
This is just the book I was looking for. It is overflowing with ideas for tricks to teach your dog, games to play as a group or individually with dogs, and ideas for very inexpensive equipment that you can build all with just one sheet of plywood! This author has ideas that a new and refreshing. This will not doubt become a great reference book for my puppy class students and we are all looking forward to getting the next book "More Fun and Games with Dogs"!
| The Behavioural Biology of Dogs (Cabi Publishing)
Author: P Jensen
Binding: Paperback
Price: $56.47
Written by experts in different areas, this book presents an up-to-date account of the behavioral biology of dogs. Split in 3 parts, the book addresses the specific aspects of behavioral biology. The first part deals with the evolution and development of the dog, whereas the next part deals with basic aspects of dog behavior. The final part emphasises on the behavioral problems, their prevention and cure.
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