How to Listen to Your Dog: The Complete Guide to Communicating with Man's Best Friend

by Cooper, Carlotta

• ISBN13: 9781601385963
• ISBN10: 160138596X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-12-01
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Group Inc.

Summary

Sit. Stay. Heel. Does your dog disobey you sometimes? Do you understand why? Understanding each other's wants and needs is one of the best ways you and your pooch can establish a happy, life-long relationship. Instead of growing frustrated at your dog's seemingly bad behavior, try to recognize what makes it act the way it does. Establishing effective communication is necessary for any relationship including the one between you and your furry friend.How to Listen to Your Dog: The Complete Guide to Communicating with Man's Best Friend will teach you how to decipher what your dog is trying to tell you. This will not only help eliminate confusion, but it will also ensure that your dog is more receptive to you when you are training it and asking it to follow basic commands. This book will teach you how to interpret the meaning behind every tail wag, head tilt, and bark and how to make sure your dog always knows what you want from it. You will learn how to practice positive reinforcement with your four-legged friend and why this is so important to the canine population.This book will teach you the reasoning behind so many of the common problems dog owners experience and how you can prevent these troubles. You will begin to understand your pooch, whatever age it is. You will know what it really means with its slobbery kiss or why it continues to jump all over you - even after you have spent countless hours and large sums of money on expensive training sessions. Becoming aware of your dog's reasoning will help you realize why it acts the way it does and will also help you prevent or eliminate problem behavior.We've interviewed dozens of trainers who all stressed the importance of establishing two-way communication to ensure a pleasant and stress-free relationship between you and your dog. This book also has information from dog owners who have overcome problem behavior by understanding what their dogs wanted and working with their pet to remedy the problem. How to Listen to Your Dog will provide you will everything you need to know to learn what your dog is trying to tell you and ways to establish a close, healthy bond with man's best friend.