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| Building Blocks for Performance | 
 enlarge | Authors: Bobbie Anderson, Tracy Libby
Publisher: Alpine Blue Ribbon Books
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 136125
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 133
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.4
ISBN: 1577790375
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.70835
UPC: 697987903754
EAN: 9781577790372
ASIN: 1577790375
Publication Date: April 2002
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Product Description
Want to win in your chosen performance event? Looking forward to raising a new puppy that you hope can do just that? Read this book before your puppy comes home. * Motivate your puppy to enjoy training * Build drive through goal oriented games * Tailor your interaction with your puppy to his future performance event.
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 Extememly Useful August 14, 2005
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Whether you are a new dog owner, just got a new puppy, are training an adult dog or are not new to dog training, this book is filled with lots of valuable training techniques, just like the title. Many techniques you teach and use to build upon later. Lots of diagrams, pictures, illustrtations, and lists. Would be great for a 4-H member training a dog or for the casual pet owner just wanting to learn some basic training stuff up through the professional obedience trainer. I refer back to it throughout the year in all my training. Everyone who has a dog should get this book and use it!!
Building block for performance July 19, 2005
1 out of 16 found this review helpful
When I first ordered the book I never received it from the first company I ordered it from. I finally found the phone # for amazon.com and talk to a respresentive who was very helpful and the book arrived 2 days later from amazon.I never did hear from the original company.
A Must-Have Book for Performance Dogs November 23, 2003
22 out of 23 found this review helpful
The content of this book was great. The author gives a lot of examples of games you can play with your puppy to make training fun. I found several training errors I have been making with my own dogs in this book and, once I saw it in print, could see how that might affect motivation.
Contrary to what another reviewer previously mentioned, this book is NOT full of harsh corrections. In fact, there is not one instance where the author advocates harsh corrections or hard-handed training methods. When she does discuss corrections, it is with a very fair, gentle approach that seeks to get the dog immediately back to a position of earning praise while not letting a situation get to the point where the dog feels like commands are optional. This ENTIRE book is about FUN with your dog and learning how to make training, learning, and being with you something your dog can't wait to do. It is one of the most positive training books I have ever read.
She has great information about the use of food and toys and tells you how to use them appropriately while still making time with you be your dogs ultimate reward. She also talks about how to structure your puppy's life to make the most of your time together.
The author uses many real examples from working with her own dog or from her students. She also has a very nice chapter or two at the end about how to set goals to help yourself be successful with your dog. There are a lot of pictures and boxes highlighting the main ideas or offering in quick bites some additional ideas of how to utilize the information.
The ONLY complaint I have with this book is in its organization. She mentions having your puppy do a sit or a down all throughout the book but doesn't talk about teaching the sit or down until the 3rd to last chapter. She also gives TONS of examples of how to train your dog through play throughout the book but it can leave you feeling a bit overwhelmed feeling like you should train your dog 5 hours a day! It isn't until one of the very last chapters that she gives some ideas of how much set aside training time should be done each day and also talks about incorporating 30 seconds here or there as you are doing something else with the puppy anyway.
I would definitely consider this book a must-have. I plan to try to read it at least one more time before my next performance puppy arrives.
Devour this book! November 5, 2002
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is a fabulous guide for starting a puppy to be any kind of competition dog. It shows you how to train your puppy, through day-to-day interaction, for a playful, confident attitude (you can teach precision later). The authors explain how to gradually move your puppy away from treats training and how to use praise effectively. The book describes how to get your puppy's attention and focus, primarily with games, so your puppy will LOVE to train and work with you. Sidebars describe how to work with some special dog personality types. Read this book before you bring your next puppy home!
 Outmoded training ideas October 15, 2002
11 out of 24 found this review helpful
Although I eagerly hoped for a good book about introducing agility to puppies with positive reinforcement, this book gravely disappointed me. In fact, this book was so filled with punishments ("corrections") of the puppy that I could barely believe that the book had been recently written; it read like dog training books written 20 years ago. It appeared to me that the author had been left behind in the revolution in positive reinforcement dog training. The author's ideas are particularly disturbing because they are applied to puppies.
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