Recommended Reading List from Pam Dennison at Positive Motivation Dog Training!

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Recommended Reading

I recommend you stay away from any book not listed here unless you ask me first. There are many dog training books out there with many conflicting notions about training. Some may even on the surface sound logical - until you really look at what the author is telling you to do.

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Civilizing the City Dog: a guide to rehabilitating aggressive dogs in an urban environment by Pamela Dennison - Order Now!
Click Your Way to Rally Obedience by Pamela Dennison - Order NOW!
How to Right a Dog Gone Wrong by Pamela Dennison - Order NOW!
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Positive Dog Training by Pamela Dennison - Order NOW!
Bringing Light to Shadow - A Dog Trainer's Diary by Pamela Dennison - Order NOW!
Bones Would Rain From the Sky: Deepening Our Relationships with Dogs by Suzanne Clothier
Calming Signals, On Talking Terms with Dogs, 2nd Ed. by Turid Rugaas
Culture Clash by Jean Donaldson
Don't Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor
Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs and Cats by Richard Pitcairn, DVM contains diet information for many "special" cases, allergies, kidney problems, etc. He does use grains though. Ian and Kymythy do not.
Give Your Dog a Bone by Ian Billinghurst, BVS (Austrailian equivalent of a DVM), explaining the concepts of feeding a raw diet.
Grow Your Pups with Bones by Ian Billinghurst
Holistic Guide for a Healthy Dog by Wendy Volhard
Ultimate Diet: Natural Nutrition for Dogs and Cats by Kymythy Schultze. This is a totally raw diet without any grains or dairy whatsoever. It is a very well written, easy to understand manual on feeding.
The Other End of the Leash by Patricia McConnell
Purely Positive Training by Sheila Booth

For the Advanced Reader **

Clicker Training for Obedience (Competition) by Morgan Spector **
Coercion and Its Fallout by Murray Sidman **
Excel-Erated Learning: Explaining in Plain English How Dogs Learn and How Best to Teach Them by Pamela J. Reid **
How Dogs Learn by by Mary R. Burch and Jon S. Bailey **
On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz **

** These books are for those of you that have read the other ones first - do NOT start with these books!

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