Product Description

As a small dog owner, you have probably come to realize that little dogs have special needs that require training techniques specifically formulated for their small statures and distinctive personalities. Little Dogs: Training Your Pint-Sized Companion offers gentle, positive, and extraordinarily effective solutions to many of the most common challenges facing small dogs and their owners today.

Little Dogs features:

-Innovative training techniques geared specifically toward small dogs (12" and under or 20 lbs and under)

-Tips on how to clearly communicate with your dog

-Solutions to common behavioral issues

-Thorough coverage of a variety of issues with an emphasis on positive reinforcement

Understanding how your small dog thinks is key to establishing an affirmative relationship with him. Little Dogs: Training Your Pint-Sized Companion contains all of the information essential to the training success of both you and your little dog!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20149 in Books
• Brand: Tfh/Nylabone
• Published on: 2004-05-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 2.00 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 143 pages

Features

• Tfh Little Dogs Training

AKC Family Dog
"...[Wood] never loses sight of the special challenges and rewards that the under-15-pounds set provides their owners..."

About the Author
Deborah Wood is the award-winning pet columnist for The Oregonian newspaper and the author of several pet books, including A New Owner's Guide to Papillons. She lives with three Papillons and a cat in Portland, Oregon. Deborah competes with all of her Papillons in obedience trials and makes regular animal-assisted therapy visits with one of her dogs to a children's hospital.

Customer Reviews

Lotta Book in a Little Package
This book like little dogs, Happy, Fun, and full of good humored ATTITUDE.I like to give this as a 'new puppy' or 'newly rescued' gift, especially to big dog people getting their 1st experience w/ the smaller cousins. Ms. Woods book has lots of great ideas for care, training and even game playing w/ the little guys. I love this book...you'll read it w/ a smile!!

Excellent training manual!!!
I thought this book was an excellent training manual for my 2 yorkies. Gives you insight into the dogs' perceptions of the world, and offers great advice on training your little dogs. When I trained my first yorkie, I tabbed certain "tricks" and wrote an index in the back to give me a quick reference point.... Came in very handy when training my second yorkie. I liked this book so much I purchased 1 for my mom, who has chihuahuas.

The best training book for little dogs
My toy poodle is my first dog (although I had dogs growing up, they were never *my* responsibility, heh.) This book has been an invaluable training tool. It even had a solution for his incessant barking. He was worse than a car alarm. Anytime there was a noise, he'd go off. But the book gave multiple suggestions on stopping this. It took less than 2 weeks to train the alarm-barking out of him. I'm shocked. And all of the techniques are so gentle. I am able to use my soft-speaking voice and he listens. No yelling. No yanking on his leash. No forceful grabbing that could injure his tiny body. One thing, I did put him through a puppy training class, mostly for me to learn training techniques. It made this book easier to follow.