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Fighting Fleas and Ticks, Part 2: Improving Pet Safety
Books on Obedience Training in Dogs
How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend by the Monks of New Skete
How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend : A...
Art of Raising a Puppy by the Monks of New Skete
The Art of Raising a Puppy
The New Skete Monastary in New York State has produced many wonderfully trained German Shepherds over the years. Understanding a dog, the monks say, is the key to successfully training him. They first published this philosophy in their 1978 classic guide How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend. The monks have a newer book The Art of Raising a Puppy that concentrates on the first three months of a puppy's life. Virtually all types of dog problems and dog training are examined in the book, always in compassionate and easily comprehensible language. The monks also look well beyond surface training techniques to analyze the roots of dogs' problems and explain how training can help. Owners are taught how to gently assert dominance over their dog, which will make for a long-lasting and fulfilling relationship.
The Perfect Puppy: How to Raise the Well Behaved Dog by Gwen Bailey
The Perfect Puppy : How to Raise a...
The Perfect Puppy gives you the latest behavioral information and emphasizes prevention rather than cure. This easy to follow book helps the dog owner to understand many problems and training techniques from behavioral view.
The Dog Whiperer:A Compassionate, Nonviolent Approach to Dog Training by Paul Owens, Norma Eckrote and Michael W. Fox
The Dog Whisperer : A Compassionate,...
Paul Owens explains in minute detail how to make your dog into a model member of society; a dog who, for example, can sit calmly through a tail pulling, ear grabbing or pot banging. The book gives step-by-step instructions for teaching your dog to do the basics (e.g., sit, down, stay, come, heel, go to bed) and to do them in any environment, ignoring any noisy or visual distraction. This is a book with a more holistic approach.
Clicking with Your Dog: Step-by-Step in Pictures by Peggy Tillman and Karen Pryor
Clicking with Your Dog : Step-by-Step in...
Step-by-step instructions do not describe this book at all. Each behavior is not only described in words, but the individual components of the behavior are broken down. There are seven illustrations alone for teaching the sit.The directions are clearly written and suitable for those from about 5th grade on up to the most educated college professor. It is the illustrations though that make this book.
Good Owners, Great Dogs by Brian Kilcommons & Sarah Wilson
Good Owners Great Dogs
If you are someone who has made every possible mistake trying to train your dog and are at your wits end, here is a book that will guide you through a common sense approach to develop a wonderful and rewarding relationship between you and your dog. This is a book with a more traditional approach to dog training.
Housebreaking, Travel, Childproofing and other Specific Problems How to Housebreak your Dog in 7 Days by Shirlee Kalstone.
Ho w to Housebreak Your Dog in 7 Days
This book is based on a few simple ideas, one of which is the puppy's idea of its "den", which it will scrupulously avoid soiling. Watering schedules, maturity, praise, body language and commands also enter the program.
Traveling with your pet the AAA petbook®
Traveling With Your Pet : The AAA Petbook
This useful guide provide
Pesticides and repellents to protect cats and dogs from fleas and ticks have risks as well as benefits. Concerned over recent reports of adverse effects from such products, the Environmental Protection Agency, in cooperation with industry, has developed guidance for labeling changes to promote proper use.
The effort, coordinated by EPA policy analyst Janet Whitehurst, began early in 1994, when she learned that in just 18 months, EPA had received 853 reports of adverse effects, including 148 animal deaths and 58 reports of illness in humans. Most reports involved cats, which are more sensitive than dogs.
Improved labels would:
- Direct users to read the entire label before each use.
- Clearly state the animal for which the product is registered and the minimum age for safe use.
- Caution users to consult a veterinarian before treating certain animals, such as those that are ill or pregnant (unless safety is known).
- Warn about adverse reactions and interactions with medicines or other chemicals.
- Advise users to wash their hands after use.
- Clearly state limitations for reapplication.
- Give a phone number to call about proper use and emergencies.
- Include first-aid information.
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