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Behaviour and Training Books

Getting Started: Clicker Training for Dogs by Karen Pryor

Through several editions, and a name change to Getting Started: Clicker Training for Dogs, this classic has served up just the right portion of science and practical tips for anyone to understand why clicker training works so well, and the first steps to building a new system of communication and deeper bond with their dog.

Now, this powerful little book has become more helpful than ever in a new edition packed with step-by-step photographs of dogs and their handlers, clearly showing each stage of:

  • Shaping a behaviour
  • Choosing and delivering a reward
  • Raising criteria
  • Target training
  • Timing the click
  • How to progress in small steps
  • Clicker training foundation behaviours, including Sit, Down, and Come when Called
  • Clicker training walking on a loose leash
  • Teaching a dog to be clicker savvy with the classic game “101 Things to do with a Box”
  • Training alone, with a partner, and in a group
  • Keeping training fun for you and your dog

Throughout, the easy-to-read text explains the science of behaviour and learning that makes clicker training so effective, including:

  • Why every interaction with your dog is a training opportunity
  • Why mistakes are best ignored
  • Why punishment doesn't work
  • Why your dog will understand the language of the click better than anything else

An all-new chapter on where to find more information and connect with other clicker trainers completes this invaluable new edition, along with Frequently Asked Questions and Clicker Tips.

If you're curious about clicker training and want to learn more, begin with Getting Started: Clicker Training for Dogs. If you've tried clicker training, and know that it works, keep Getting Started: Clicker Training for Dogs in your library to review the underlying principles and basic techniques. If you already have a copy of earlier editions, be sure to add this new edition to your library for its more than 70 photographs of clicker training in action. If you are instructor or professional trainer, it is the beginners' reference on which you can rely.

Getting Started: Clicker Training for Dogs. It's the first step to the world of clicker training.

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Click for Joy by Melissa C Alexander

A superb book for anyone interested in clicker training.

Click for Joy makes the concepts of clicker training simple to understand and easy to apply.

It is packed with information for experienced trainers and newcomers alike, including:

  • positive, effective solutions to common problems
  • practical instructions to train any behaviour for fluency and reliability
  • encouragement, advice, and success stories from clicker trainers around the world
  • short-term and long-term consequences of controversial training techniques
  • clear, easy-to-understand explanations of the science underlying clicker training
  • glossary of clicker training terms and concepts
  • easy-to-use cross-referencing and index

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Click to Calm: Healing the Aggressive Dog by Emma Parsons BA APDT

Great news! Click to Calm, the path-breaking book on healing canine aggression.  Learn  an effective approach from someone who's been there.


When Emma Parsons, canine trainer and behaviour consultant, discovered that Ben, her own prized golden retriever, was aggressive toward other dogs and that traditional remedies took his reactivity to nightmarish levels, she turned to clicker training.

In the process, Emma developed innovative and highly effective strategies to calm, alter, and re-shape Ben's aggressive displays. Her work has since helped many clients successfully reduce—and even erase—their dogs' reactivity to both dogs and humans.

This proven path is now laid out, clearly and empathetically, for you to follow.
Click to Calm has more than 40 exercises presented in an easy-to-follow “training recipe” format, teaching how to:

  • Desensitize your dog to approaching stranger dogs

  • Allow you to grab your dog's collar without him snapping

  • Have your dog perform canine calming signals, instead of aggressive displays, on cue

  • Have your dog turn and give you eye contact whenever another dog approaches, or you tighten on the leash

  • Use your own body language when under stress as a cue for your dog to remain calm

  • And many more creative and effective uses of managing behaviour through clicker training

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Clicker Puppy

This brand new DVD delightfully shows you how to teach adorable puppies just weeks old the basics for good canine citizenship plus some fun tricks. So much love, so much fun and it's all clicker trained. Incredibly, all the demonstrations are performed by children. If you are getting a puppy soon or already have one, in your family, this DVD is our choice for tops on your list.

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Don't Shoot the Dog Revised Edition by Karen Pryor

This is the "Bible" on positive reinforcement training, or operant conditioning, and how it works - with people, and of course with animals. Fun to read too! Over 300,000 in print. Karen Pryor's clear and entertaining explanation of behavioural training methods made "Don't Shoot the Dog" a bestselling classic! Now this revised edition, published by Bantam, presents more of her insights into animal and human behaviour.

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Booklets

Angela Stockdale has written a number of inexpensive booklets with a wealth of wisdom and information. 

Give me a Clue  by Angela Stockdale.

Explains in plain English the principles behind clicker training and how to apply them.

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What makes you Click by Angela Stockdale

A step by step guide on how to teach your dog basic exercises using the clicker.  No jargon here!

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If only we could Talk by Angela Stockdale

A guide to help dog owners earn the respect of their dogs in the home.  Concentrates on enhance the relationship between dog and owner.

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Pleased to meet You by Angela Stockdale

A guide to introducing your dog to new people.  It covers greeting routines both inside the home and out in the wide world.

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Missing You by Angela Stockdale

A guide for owners whose dogs suffer from separation distress.  It helps the owner gradually reduce the dog's dependence on them and works on building the dog's self confidence.

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Towing the Line by Angela Stockdale

A guide to line training.  Dogs do not automatically walk on a lead, from teaching a dog to walk on a slack lead, to teaching them to remain near us when off lead.

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Teach Your Dog...To Come When Called by Erica Peachey

A fun guide to this simple but often  elusive obedience exercise that leaves so many owners bewildered. Training your dog to come when called is as simple as teaching him to sit and armed with the information in this book you can train your dog to return to your side every time you call him.

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Teach Your Dog...Good Manners by Erica Peachey

Owning a dog should be a pleasure, yet all too often it turns into a battle of wills. Even the most loving of dogs can be surprisingly stubborn when it comes to barking, vacating on the sofa, or greeting people with a friendly wag of the tail instead of a full-blown rugby tackle! Now, Britain's leading pet book publisher shows you how to prevent your dog from developing these bad habits, as well as providing solutions to many common behavioural problems.

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Teach Your Dog...Lead Training by Erica Peachey

Walking with your dog should be a pleasure, yet all too often, it turns into a battle of wills, with the dog either surging ahead or dragging behind.  A fun guide that give practical step-by-step advice on all aspects of lead training, and is illustrated with brilliant cartoons and top-class colour photography.

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Teach Your Dog...House Training by Erica Peachey

House training may not be the most glamorous part of dog-ownership, but it needn't be a chore.  This book is a fun guide that gives practical, step-by-step advice on all aspects of house training.  It is packed with fun cartoons and colour photography. 

Whether you have a new puppy, or an older dog, this comprehensive book will show you how to train your dog quickly and efficiently.

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How Dogs Learn by Mary R Burch & Jon S Bailey


This excellent book describes the basic principles of behaviour and how they can be used to teach your dog new skills, diagnose problems and eliminate unwanted behaviours.  It is for anyone who wants to better understand the learning process in dogs.


How Dogs Learn explains the fascinating science of operant conditioning. The authors, recognized experts in this field, are also experienced dog trainers, and they explain each operant conditioning principle using dog training examples. For the first time, behavioural procedures that are used with humans, such as Behavioural Diagnostics and Functional Analysis, have been translated for applications with dogs. How Dogs Learn will help all dog owners solve canine behaviour problems and improve their proficiency as trainers.

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Breaking Bad Habits in Dogs by Colin Tennant

Colin Tennant is one of the world's foremost authorities on canine behaviour and has a strong background in animal training videos and UK television appearances. The book uses digital video photography to demonstrate the various behavioural improvement techniques. Colin gives us a fascinating insight into canine psychology and explains why dogs behave in the way that they do when part of the "family pack".  Using simple exercises, he reveals how dogs can be retrained through a system of reward and deterrence that makes bad behaviour a thing of the past.

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Dancing with Dogs by Richard Curtis

From small beginnings, Freestyle, sometimes known as Heelwork to Music, has grown into a highly competitive discipline, which demands control, obedience, agility and a spot-on sense of timing. The greatest challenge is to form a perfect partnership so that you can, literally, dance with your dog. In this book Richard Curtis breaks down all the moves, from the simplest to the most complex and shows you how to train your dog for Freestyle. If you have just started training a puppy, or you want to train your adult dog in a new discipline, Dancing with Dogs will give you all the guidance you need for you and your dog to become star performers in this new sport.

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Puppies Raising & Training Diary for Dummies by Sarah Hodgson

This super-friendly diary makes a terrific gift for the new puppy owner and is a fun and easy way to create a record of a puppy's first year. It offers:

  • Puppy how-to guidance and a diary to record growth and development

  • Expert advice on teaching a dog to be a well-behaved member of the family

  • Tips on raising a healthy dog and handling developmental problems

  • Pointers on building a strong emotional bond with a puppy

Set goals -- track progress -- see results!

Take puppy care to the next level Puppyhood is the most delightful - and difficult - period in your dog's life. But don't sweat it! Filled with savvy tips and practical suggestions, this handy journal allows you to easily record your puppy's progress. With over 52 weeks of advice, you will find out how to raise a well-adjusted pup in no time.

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You & Your Puppy by James DeBitetto & Sarah Hodgson

Training and Health Care for Puppy's First Year.

In You & Your Puppy you will find a training schedule to work with your puppy through every development phase, including adolescence.  You'll also learn how to housebreak your puppy, how to control nipping and chewing, how to puppy-proof your home, what your puppy should be eating, what shots your puppy needs, now to control fleas and ticks, and much more.  You & Your Puppy is the all-in-one puppy-rearing book you can turn to for the first 12 months of your puppy's life and then come back to as your puppy matures.

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Fun and Games with Your Dog by Gerd Ludwig

Happy dogs love to play games and do tricks.  Teaching a dog to perform tricks is a fine way of bonding between owner and pet.  It is also a subtle method of obedience training.  This manual guides owners through methods of teaching their dogs to run through obstacle courses, retrieve hidden objects, play games with frisbees and more.  A unique resource to help you and your dog enjoy recreation time.

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Agility A Step by Step Guide by Patrick Holden & John Gilbert

Agility is one of the most popular of all dog sports, hugely enjoyed by dogs and owners alike.  This step-by-step guide will tell you all you need to know about the sport, from finding a club and tackling the obstacles, through to entering, and hopefully winning, competitions.

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Fitness Planner for your Dog by Linda Waniorek

Whether training a dog for competitive events, or simply to keep the animal active and healthy, this volume offers a wealth of information and advice to owners on setting up a workable exercise and training program. Different sports and activities are recommended for different seasons of the year. They involve supervised running, swimming, jumping through an obstacle course, and more. Programmes are designed so that they can be carried out by older children as well as adult dog owners. The author also offers extensive canine medical advice. The book features dozens of full-colour photos, plus line art, charts, and tables.

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Competitive Obedience A Step by Step Guide by Paddy Coughlan

Competitive obedience provides a tremendous challenge for dog and handler, but you can learn how to form a successful partnership by following this step-by-step guide which takes you from the basics through to the most advanced exercises.

Using a training system based on play and reward, you can teach your dog:

  • Competition-style heelwork
  • Recalls
  • Retrieves
  • Send away
  • Scent discrimination
  • Distance control

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Competitive Obedience For Winners by Brian McGovern

Training your dog to win at competition level requires skill, dedication and patience.  It is also vital to build up a close relationship with your dog and to have an understanding of how the canine mind works.  In this book, Brian McGovern gives the benefit of his wide and varied experience to help you get the best from your dog.

Starting from the early lessons taught when you first acquire your puppy, Brian describes his method of training, which is based on a gradual progression of learning so your dog is never given the chance to make mistakes.

Problems in training are tackled, culminating in preparing yourself and your dog for competition.

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Clicker Training for Cats by Karen Pryor

Written by Karen Pryor, this is an ideal introduction that shows you how to teach your cat:

  • To come when called
  • To play without biting and scratching
  • To get along with dogs and other cats
  • To walk in a harness
  • To accept grooming and claw-clipping
  • Tricks and games

With the clicker, anything is possible!

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Clicker Training For Your Horse by Alexandra Kurland

OK we know it's a dog site but we couldn't resist this.  Lots of you dog owners out there have horses so why not clicker train them as well?  In this remarkable book, Alexandra Kurland shows how and why to use the techniques of positive reinforcement and shaping, with a horse.  She leads you through the new methodology of clicker training step by step, so that you can do it for yourself.  And she makes on of the biggest benefits crystal-clear; Clicker training is not just effective - it's FUN!

Foreword by Karen Pryor author of Don't Shoot the Dog!

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