Top 5 pet dog training books
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There are hundreds probably thousands of pet dog training books available. In fact if you do an exact search on Amazon.com for “dog training” in the books section Amazon returns 4,909 books available. I don’t know about you, but when it pertains to finding the ideal books I rely on several different metrics:
Choosing pet dog training Books
Does the content match my subject? pet dog training books is very broad and I may be trying to find puppy training, pet dog tricks, agility training, advanced training, etc.
How old is the book? I normally look for the most recent editions and give a lot more value to a book written a lot more recently.
Who wrote the book? If you read, enjoy tv, or listen to the radio you may already have a feel for different authors. For instance, have you heard of Cesar Millan? You may like his teaching style and like a book written by him.
Are there online reviews? This can be difficult because I know for a fact that these reviews are often inflated. In general I like to see a book with several hopefully non-biased reviews. You can check Amazon’s or Barnes n Nobles reviews or try entering the name of the book with the word “review” into google search.
Offline friend or family reviews? I’m already in contact with lots of pet dog people so I will often ask their opinion on what good books about pet dog training they’ve read.
If you follow these steps you will a lot of likely come away with a good pet dog training book. I need to say that I have not read hundreds of pet dog training books (more along the lines of tens), but of those ten these are my 5 favorite:
Top 5 pet dog training Books
In no particular buy here are my top 5 pet dog training books:
Puppies For Dummies (For Dummies (Pets)) – I purchased this book before I brought home (as an adult) my first puppy. If you plan on getting a puppy, but you haven’t brought that little furry ball home yet this book is a need to read. I read it cover to cover twice before bringing home my first pet dog Linus 4 years ago. The book starts with the basics of choosing a breed, puppy personalities, where to get a puppy, basic training, and tons of other beneficial information about getting your first puppy. This book is highly recommended!
Petfinder.com The adopted pet dog Bible: Your One-Stop resource for Choosing, Training, and caring for Your Sheltered or Rescued pet dog – If you follow this blog then lots of of you know that Linus came from the Carson shelter. I purchased this book recently not because I’m in the market for another dog, but instead to learn about the behavior of dogs in shelters and how it is different to re-train a pet dog versus training a puppy from scratch. This is a great book if you plan on picking your next pet dog up from the pet dog shelter. even though Linus was a puppy when I picked him up I’m pretty sure he had some trauma from his short stay at the animal shelter.
The complete Idiot’s guide to pet dog tricks – After Linus cleared puppyhood…actually he was still a puppy at about 10 months old, but had mastered a lot of of his basic obedience…I made a decision to try working on some trick training. He learned several show stopping pet dog tricks from this book (well, it pleased friends and family). Linus was well suited for all of the tricks in the book (he hated it when I serviced sneeze on command) he did learn lots of of the basic and semi-advanced tricks including shaking hands, waving goodbye, playing dead, rolling over, and lots of others.
Eco Dog: healthy Living for Your Pet – A great book on learning to be a green dog. There are several projects throughout the book that shows you how to great all-natural alternatives to your regular pet dog products. This includes one of our favorites on creating your own pet dog toys (quite the money saver).
Guide pet dog training manual – Unfortunately, this training book is not for sale, but instead something we as puppy raisers receive before we bring home our first guide pet dog puppy in training. I’ve probably read this manual five times while raising my two guide pet dog puppies: Stetson and Derby. For the most part the manual covers basic obedience similar to the information you’d get out of a book like the “Puppies for Dummies” book I pointed out earlier. However, there are several pieces of information that are certain to guide pet dog training that a lot of people probably do not show their dogs.
As I’ve pointed out earlier there are thousands of pet dog training books available to you through Amazon.com, Borders, or Barnes and Noble. This is just a short list of a few of my favorites. If these books aren’t what your trying to find I’d recommendnull