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    Calm Down! Step-by-Step to a Calm, Relaxed, and Brilliant Family Dog: Essential Skills for a Brilliant Family Dog, #1
    Calm Down! Step-by-Step to a Calm, Relaxed, and Brilliant Family Dog: Essential Skills for a Brilliant Family Dog, #1
    Calm Down! Step-by-Step to a Calm, Relaxed, and Brilliant Family Dog: Essential Skills for a Brilliant Family Dog, #1
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    Calm Down! Step-by-Step to a Calm, Relaxed, and Brilliant Family Dog: Essential Skills for a Brilliant Family Dog, #1

    By Beverley Courtney

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    Is your dog driving you mad?

    Learn how to

    • find your dog's off-switch

    • enjoy a calm visit to a cafe or pub

    • reach your dog's mind without losing yours

    • enjoy your dog again!

     

    Instead of saying "This is what you do," then leaving you to it, Beverley Courtney takes you by the hand and troubleshoots all the games so that you can get them absolutely right for you and your individual dog. And the joy is that this is all achieved without shouting, force, or intimidation. Just pure undiluted fun!

     

    There's no strange jargon, no "Thou shalt not's", and every time you get stuck, another solution pops up. Beverley's years of experience as a professional positive dog trainer - in face-to-face classes as well as her online programs - shine through. Having taught thousands of new owners how to work with their puppies and dogs - entirely without force - Beverley knows just what you're up against!

     

    Buy Book 1 in this series of Essential Skills for a Brilliant Family Dog and learn how to get what you want from your dog, as it sends him off to sleep for you - zzzzzz!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBeverley Courtney
    Release dateMar 10, 2016
    ISBN9781524292065
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      Calm Down! Step-by-Step to a Calm, Relaxed, and Brilliant Family Dog - Beverley Courtney

      CALM DOWN!

      STEP-BY-STEP TO A CALM, RELAXED, AND BRILLIANT FAMILY DOG

      ESSENTIAL SKILLS FOR A BRILLIANT FAMILY DOG

      BOOK 1

      BEVERLEY COURTNEY

      CONTENTS

      Books By The Author

      Free Training for you!

      Disclaimer

      Introduction

      1. Introducing the Mat!

      What do you need?

      Your Mat

      Treats

      Good treats

      OK treats

      Fairly rubbish treats

      TROUBLESHOOTING

      2. Starting with the Mat

      Lesson 1

      TROUBLESHOOTING

      In this chapter we have established that:

      3. Mat Magic!

      Lesson 2

      How do I get my dog to lie down?

      Teaching her Down on the mat

      Capture a Down

      Lie down in a tunnel

      Luring into a Down

      TROUBLESHOOTING

      Lesson 3

      TROUBLESHOOTING

      In this chapter we have established that:

      4. What do I do with this mat now?

      Coffee with a friend, or Sunday lunch at the pub

      A peaceful evening in the living room

      Visiting the vet

      Family picnic

      In this chapter we have learnt that:

      5. Taking it on the road

      The doorbell!

      Targets

      Preparing dinner

      Mat substitutes

      Reports from the Front Line

      In this chapter we have established that:

      6. Surprise benefits of Mat Magic!

      How should our day go?

      In this chapter we have established that:

      Conclusion

      Resources

      Appreciation

      Free Training for you!

      About the Author

      Copyright © 2016 Beverley Courtney Ltd

      The right of Beverley Courtney to be identified as the author of the work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or otherwise, without written permission from the author.

      Second edition: 2023

      www.brilliantfamilydog.com

      BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR

      Essential Skills for a Brilliant Family Dog

      Book 1 Calm Down! Step-by-Step to a Calm, Relaxed, and Brilliant Family Dog

      Book 2 Leave it! How to teach Amazing Impulse Control to your Brilliant Family Dog

      Book 3 Let’s Go! Enjoy Companionable Walks with your Brilliant Family Dog

      Book 4 Here Boy! Step-by-step to a Stunning Recall from your Brilliant Family Dog

      Essential Skills for your Growly but Brilliant Family Dog

      Book 1 Why is my Dog so Growly? Teach your fearful, aggressive, or reactive dog confidence through understanding

      Book 2 Change for your Growly Dog! Action steps to build confidence in your fearful, aggressive, or reactive dog

      Book 3 Calm walks with your Growly Dog Strategies and techniques for your fearful, aggressive, or reactive dog

      New Puppy: From New Puppy to Brilliant Family Dog

      New Puppy! Biting? No sleep? Puddles?

      How to survive the early weeks and still love your puppy!

      Fetch It!: More skills for a Brilliant Family Dog

      Teach your Brilliant Family Dog to catch, fetch, retrieve, find, and bring things back!

      FREE TRAINING FOR YOU!

      Get the next piece of the puzzle

      Jumping up?

      Barking?

      Chewing?

      Get inventive solutions to everyday problems with your dog with our free email course at

      https://brilliant-family-dog.ck.page/bfd-ecourse

      DISCLAIMER

      I have made every effort to make my teachings crystal clear, but we’re dealing with live animals here (That’s you, and your dog.) and I can’t see whether you’re doing it exactly right. I am unable to guarantee success, as it depends entirely on the person utilising the training programs, strategies, tools, and resources.

      What I do know is that this system works!

      Nothing in these books should upset or worry your dog in any way, but if your dog has a pre-existing problem of fear or aggression you should consult a force-free trainer to help. www.brilliantfamilydog. com/growly will get you started.

      By the way, to simplify matters I refer to our trainee dog throughout this series as she. He and she will both learn the exact same way. The cumbersome alternatives of he/she or they depersonalise our learner: I want her to be very real to you!

      All the photos in this book are of real dogs – either my own, or those of students and readers (with their permission). So the reproduction quality is sometimes not the best. I have chosen the images carefully to illustrate the concepts – so we’ll have to put up with some fuzziness.

      INTRODUCTION

      Coco (15 weeks) says, If this thing is on the ground, I must need to sit on it.

      Time for a change

      You, your dog and your family have

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