The Power of Positive Dog Training

Book Description
The Power of Positive Dog Training is the best book yet on explaining how and why purely positive training works. Inside, you'll find easy to read discussion of the philosophy of positive training followed by training tips and exercises. This book is geared toward the dog owner who wants to develop a relationship with their dog based on friendship and positive reinforcement, not fear and punishment. You get 30 chapters with instructive illustrations, including an easy-to-follow, step-by-step, six-week basic training program (with diary) for any dog.


From the Back Cover
Unlock the Power of the Positive Within You and Your Dog to Achieve All Your Training Goals.

Access your power! In this long-awaited book by one of the leading proponents of positive dog training, Pat Miller demonstrates how you can train your dog, have fun, and build a lasting relationship at the same time.

Walk away from punishment-based training methods and learn how you can reward your dog to obtain and reinforce the behaviors you could only dream about achieving Access your dog's power!

When you apply Pat's Positive Training Principles and follow Pat's unique six-week training program, your dog will learn to think and to choose proper behavior. The Power of Positive Dog Training will transform you and your dog into an unbeatable team, capable of addressing any challenge you may encounter.


About the Author
Pat Miller has been a dog trainer for over 30 years. She is a leading proponent of positive dog training techniques, and her columns on training are regularly read by thousands in publications such as Whole Dog Journal. She sits on the Board of Directors of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT), an organization dedicated to the promotion of positive dog training. She also is the founder of Peaceable Paws Dog & Puppy Training (www.peaceablepaws.com).


From the back cover
Unlock the power of the positive within you and your dog to achieve all your training goals.

Access your power! In this long-awaited book by one of the leading proponents of positive dog training, Pat Miller demonstrates how you can train your dog, have fun, and build a lasting relationship at the same time. Walk away from punishment-based training methods and learn how you can reward your dog to obtain and reinforce the behaviors you could only dream about achieving.

Access your dog's power! When you apply Pat's Positive Training Principles and follow Pat's unique six-week training program, your dog will learn to think and to choose proper behavior.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

In this long-awaited book by a leading proponent of positive dog training dog techniques, trainer and board member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers, Pat Miller explains in a thorough manner and a highly engaging and humorous style, the basics of what has come to be known as Positive Dog Training. Why hit your dog to get him to comply with your wishes when you can simply ask him to do it? The book explains operant conditioning techniques, offering four fundamental training concepts for dog owners to live by (Pat's Positive Training Principles), and then takes the reader through a unique, six-week training journey (complete with exercises, games and demonstrative photos) designed for every dog.

The Power of Positive Dog Training will help any dog owner unlock the power in developing a true training relationship with their dog. The result is that the dog owner can train their dog and have fun at the same time.