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| Dog Tricks for Dummies | 
 enlarge | Author: Sarah Hodgson
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: Book
List Price: $15.99
Buy New: $4.63
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 43008
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0764552872
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.70887
UPC: 785555043442
EAN: 9780764552878
ASIN: 0764552872
Publication Date: October 2, 2000
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 Tricks January 10, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this book about 2 months ago. My female dog already knows some triks, but in this book i also found some new that are interesting for my dog. She is really learning fast and i didn't have any idea what else could i learn her.
Regards,
Petra
Every puppies dream January 5, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have learned so much about teaching a pup easy tricks with this book. My dog learned to ring the bell to go potty. It was easy for this dummy to pick up the concepts and pick the ones I was willing to commit to (cuz it does take practice). The pups love the attention and the stimulation. I wish my mom had a book like this to train me....Really..the book gives great tips on training tricks, but also gives information on understanding and managing dog behavior in general. I highly recommend it.
 A good book September 5, 2002
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
I'm teaching my dog some of the tricks from this book. The book helps you understand how dogs learn and develops the tricks quicker than I thought my dog was willing to learn. The only disagreement I have is the author uses a clicker, but nothing in the book says you really have to have one
 Great book, bad editor! July 26, 2002
36 out of 36 found this review helpful
Sarah Hodgson does a great job of giving step-by-step instructions for training tricks, something that is harder to do than it looks! Everything in here is dog friendly and fun. I taught my dogs several of these tricks, and we made up a few new ones based on what we'd learned.I wish that there was more content to the book, though. Perhaps 75% of it is filler. There are whole chapters on feeding, medical care and basics like sit, down and stay. Certainly, all of these topics are important, but they have only tangential relevance to trick training. There are several other filler chapters about dog sports. Why fill 50-odd pages with brief overviews of skijoring, carting and flyball? Each of these sports has more than a few good books that readers can refer to if they're interested. Being a Border Collie owner in Texas, I have no use for info on the Iditarod! I would much rather have a smaller volume filled with stuff that I want to read. All of this filler dilutes the book, and makes it harder to pick out the valuable info.
Dog Tricks for Dummies October 4, 2001
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
Dog Tricks for Dummies has good detail for the tricks that it has, but I think that more tricks should be explored. Most of the tricks that are in the book are very basic, though there are a few more complicated ones. If this is the first time that you have raised a puppy I would recommend reading this book.
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