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| 101 Dog Tricks: Step by Step Activities to Engage, Challenge, and Bond with Your Dog | 
 enlarge | Authors: Kyra Sundance, Chalcy
Publisher: Quarry Books
Category: Book
List Price: $17.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 814
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7 x 0.6
ISBN: 1592533256
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.70887
EAN: 9781592533251
ASIN: 1592533256
Publication Date: April 1, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excellent! February 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've tried numerous tricks and tips offered in this book, and so far the style and pictures, as well as my dogs response has been unbeatable. No other similar book or CD has been as good or as easy to follow. It's an icon!
Yes, you can teach an old dog new tricks February 3, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
My dog is 11 years old and I wanted to teach her tricks as a way to keep her mind alert as she ages, as well as provide an outlet for energy when there's bad weather outside.
I've been working from the book for 1 week and so far my dog (a chihuahua) has learned 2 new tricks. Author was right about using "good" treats to motivate to learn.
I chose this book in particular because the "look inside the book" feature showed a good, easy to read layout, detailed pictures that illustrates each step of the trick, and also some "troubleshooting" issues that you might encounter as you take your dog through the trick. Oh, afteryour dog masters a particular trick, the author tells you what additional tricks you can teach your dog to build upon the trick just learned....she really does a great job in this book and I would def. buy it for a gift, as well as purchase addtl training books written by her.
PS - I have no experience training dogs and have never been through obedience training; this book is more than fine for beginners. The book breaks down tricks by simple obedience tricks (sit, stay, down, etc.) as well as 3 addtl levels of tricks (intermediate, advanced, expert), so you know which tricks are at an appropriate level for your dog.
Have fun!
The Only Dog Tricks Book you'll ever need!! November 26, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I recently bought 3 book to find some new tricks to train my dog (yorky). I've to return others 2 because this is the only book that works. I like the picture and the text to explain what you should do, these are what the others 2 don't have.
I'm not a new nor professional trainer, however, I have succeed taining my dog. The basic things that my dog can do are Sit, Stand, Stay, Bow, Beg, Play Dead, Roll Over, Bye-Bye, Kiss, Come, Fetch these are basic tricks that you can find on regular dog training book.
I love this book because they give you more creative things to play with your dog and very colorful and easy to understand with the picture demonstration. After all, It's a dog training book not intro to the rocket science...
I really love this book, highly recommended to any dog owners or dog lovers. Worth every penny.
 Great photos and Instructions, but not for clickers November 14, 2007
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is a book I've been looking at purchasing for awhile, and finally made the plunge last month.
The book is exceptionally produced. The photos are excellent and the write ups are excellent too.
The book has also give me a few ideas also of tricks I can train my dog with also. SO that's been a plus.
I'm not sure I like how the book is organized though. It's organized by trick category and then within each category it goes from Easy to Hard trick listing. I guess this is something more of a personal preference.
I also would have liked to see a DVD accompany this book. If anything to at least cover the basic training approaches for the beginner tricks to get you started, since trick training is a very visual thing.
Lastly, I've been doing clicker training with my dog, and I was hoping that some of the book would address this new method of training too. It gives you about 1 paragraph at the beginning of the book but that's all.
I'd give the book 4.5 stars if I could but I can't so I'm marking it down to 4 out of 5 instead. Recommended.
 Question for other readers November 8, 2007
13 out of 39 found this review helpful
I was considering buying this book...the list of tricks is wonderful and it appears to be well done. I read through the sample pages and, as a long time professional trainer, was disappointed to see SIT being taught with the old 'push on the hips, pull up on the collar' technique. For those of us trying to stay current in newer teaching techniques that is a bit of "the world is flat". Lest I throw out the whole book because of one outdated technique, can anyone give me a bit more info.
Thanks.
Sally
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