Chill Out Fido!: How to Calm Your Dog (Dogwise Training Manual)

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Factors that cause your dog's over-active behaviorsThe basics of modern positive dog trainingRewarding your dog for relaxed behaviorsAvoid reinforcement of wild behaviorsPaperback, 189 pages..read more

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by Nan Arthur Does your dog go bonkers when the doorbell rings or when you grab the leash to go for a walk? If you find your dog is often difficult to control, you’re definitely not alone! Getting your dog to calm down and relax is one of the most common challenges pet owners face. This two part book will help you first identify the factors that cause this kind of behavior in dogs. It then provides you with eleven key training exercises to teach your dog how to calm down, pay attention to you, relax, and respond to every day situations with confidence and composure. Chill Out Fido! will discuss : Factors that cause your dog’s over-active behaviors How diet impacts your dog’s inability to relax The basics of modern positive dog training Rewarding your dog for relaxed behaviors Avoid reinforcement of wild behaviors Step-by-step training exercises dealing with common situations where dogs have trouble staying calm Trouble shooting human training errors Publisher : Dogwise Publishing Edition : 2009 Paperback, 189 pages

5 Reviews

  1. Sara Scott says:
    February 14, 2010 at 12:00 am

    As a professional trainer and groomer, I am either routinely asked about how to correct behavioral problems or I experience unpleasant behaviors directly when handling pets on the grooming table.

    Most of the undesirable behaviors seem to arise out of a general problem of the dog not being able to cope in a stressful environment (contextual), unable to recover from stressors, or are, in general, unable to pull their energy in to calm down and listen/learn. Behavioral questions are usually not simple to answer in a short, over-the-counter conversation. A lot of questions must be asked by a skilled trainer and the learner must also be assessed as to whether they comprehend and/or are able to carry out a training plan.

    A great big thank you to Nan Arthur for writing a book that I routinely recommend to clients. After they read the book and they still need help, at least we have a common ground to start from and to refine…and I know they are invested if they have made the effort to read the book. Without the book, training often takes much, much longer in expensive private lessons.

    The title says it all. She includes information about getting started with a clicker? Fantastic, then I don’t need to cover this ground or recommend a 2nd book to my clients. The best part is that Nan takes into account all of the things I would like my clients to be aware of: internal and external factors that affect behavior.

    So many dogs end up in the shelter because their owners think they are beyond help and have likely expressed either neurotic/destructive behaviors or have possibly embarrassed their owners in public for the last time. They presume their dog is exceptionally “bad.”

    Nan makes my job easier. She lays the foundation for creating a sound, stable pet and an owner who is on the same philosophical page before I begin working with a new client. I can help clients help clients to either train new, fun behaviors or help them to refine what they have been exposed to in her book.

    This book should be in the library of every dog trainer. I’ll continue to recommend this book to clients who are serious about getting to the root of the problems so that they can discover humane and practical ways to re-shape their dog to be the dog that they cannot imagine living without.

  2. C. Fellinger says:
    February 12, 2010 at 12:00 am

    When I buy a book, attend a seminar or take an obedience class I do so in order to find some new gems of wisdom to add to my collective dog training toolbox. Unfortunately I must report that if you have any current clicker training skills this book will be of little to no use to you. However, if you have never used a clicker before you might want to have a private lesson with a good trainer and then use this book as workbook, in which case it is very simple and easy to follow. As far a “chilling out” I found no special exercises in this book that would actually accomplish that sometime monumental feat. These are just common training exercises any owner/trainer would do to give their dog a basic education with some manners. So I feel the title is somewhat misleading.

  3. Midwest Book Review says:
    August 17, 2009 at 12:00 am

    Dogs are not typically sedentary creatures, but they don’t have to be hyperactive either. “Chill Out Fido! How to Calm Your Dog” is a guide for the dog owner who grows tired of their dog freaking out over daily things such as guests or the smell of meat. Advocating that these behaviors can be trained out of the dog, and offering tips to counteract or troubleshoot bad training, “Chill Out Fido!” is a practical dog training guide for any owner who wants to make their dog a more calm and lovable canine friend.

  4. Susanhu32 says:
    August 5, 2009 at 12:00 am

    This is a good book for reading to understand your dog’s behavior and is very well written.

  5. Teresa Salkin says:
    July 30, 2009 at 12:00 am

    THIS IS A GREAT BOOK! I BELIEVE IN POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT FOR TRAINING A DOG. BUT MY DOG IS A LITTLE TOO EXCITED ALL THE TIME, DOES NOT FOLLOW COMMANDS AND SEEMS TO HAVE A MIND OF HIS OWN WHEN I WANT HIM TO PAY ATTENTION TO ME. OFTEN I JUST FEEL LIKE YELLING AT HIM OR I TELL HIM TO DO THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN. IT DOESN’T WORK.

    MOST BOOKS I HAVE READ ARE GREAT BUT AFTER READING THEM I DON’T KNOW WHERE TO START! EVERYTHING SEEMS SO COMPLICATED AND OVERWHELMING. EVEN DOG TRAINERS SEEM TO GET DOGS TO DO THINGS I CAN’T IMAGINE GETTING MY DOG TO DO.

    THEN I FOUND NAN ARTHUR’S BOOK: CHILL OUT FIDO. AT LAST A CLEAR, CONCISE EASY TO FOLLOW BOOK THAT STARTS WITH PART ONE DESCRIBING PRINCIPLES AND TRAINING CONCEPTS AS A BASIS FOR HER TEACHING. PART TWO CONTAINS THE EXCERCISES AND PICTURES WHICH ARE SIMPLE,FUN TO READ AND CAN BE IMPLEMENTED RIGHT AWAY.

    IN JUST A FEW DAYS FOLLOWING HER DIRECTIONS OUR DOG, WILLS, WAS SITTING WHEN ASKED (SLOWLY, BUT HE DID IT) BACKED OFF HIS JUMPING AND KNOWS A TREAT IS COMING IF HE’S CALM RATHER THAN JUMPING. HE SLOWLY WALKS OUT OF THE DOOR AFTER US AND LOOKS UP AT ME TO DECIDE WAS TO DO NEXT AND IS GETTING MY COMMANDS FASTER. AND WE’VE ONLY BEGUN.

    LIFE HAS RADICALLY CHANGED IN ONE WEEK. CALMLY MAKE A CLICK AND GET THIS BOOK ~ IT WILL BE THE BEST TREAT YOU EVER DID FOR YOURSELF, YOUR DOG AND YOUR FAMILY.

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