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Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Domestic animals & pets > Dogs > Dog obedience & training
Following the success of A Dog a Day and Old Dogs, Sally Muir
returns with an adorable collection of beautiful rescue dog
portraits that will melt even the coldest of hearts. Several years
ago, Sally Muir began a Facebook project, posting dog art daily,
which became the best-selling book A Dog a Day. Through the
project she was introduced to endless people and their dogs, and
the distinct personalities and complex emotions that owners
attribute to them. This was followed with Old Dogs, where
Sally asked the public to send in photos of their elderly canines.
She was drawn to the tales behind their greying whiskers and so the
natural next step was rescue dogs with their eventful life stories.
Rescue Dogs is a beautiful collection of loveable hounds with
colourful histories and expressive faces. From Mr Bojangles who was
rescued after being hit by a car to Molly who found a new lease of
life after being rescued from a shelter at age 15, Rescue Dogs will
tug at the heartstrings and leave you with a profound sense of
optimism for life, new beginnings and kindness. This is the perfect
gift for your dog-loving friends, or for yourself to enjoy some
mindful moments flicking through delightful, heart-warming canine
portraits.
Imagine being able to have your own personal dog trainer on hand
365 days of the year... well, now you can with Easy Peasy Doggy
Diary! Bestselling author and dog trainer Steve Mann has crammed
all 400 pages with a multitude of training tips, techniques, ideas
and explanations. Handily organised across 52-weeks of techniques,
so that you and your dog can start at anytime of the year and enjoy
training together as a winning team! Easy Peasy Doggy Diary is the
perfect tool to help you and your dog stay on track with weekly
targets and progress checks and over 25 techniques and tips
including RECALL, STOP, SEEK BACK, GROOMING and FIRST AID. All
presented in a fun step-by-step guide to help you and your dog
enjoy the journey to domesticated bliss. Whether you want to keep
track of your dog's training progress, jot down your favourite
local walks or celebrate key achievements, this diary is the
perfect way to record those special moments and see how far you've
come. Steve Mann is the founder of the Institute of Modern Dog
Trainers and has over 30 years of knowledge by training over
100,000 dogs and owners worldwide.
'A wonderful book.' - Temple Grandin, author of Animals in
Translation An instant New York Times bestseller An incredible,
revolutionary true story and surprisingly simple guide to teaching
your dog to 'talk' from speech-language pathologist Christina
Hunger, who has taught her dog, Stella, to communicate using simple
paw-sized buttons associated with different words. When
speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger first came home with
her puppy, Stella, it didn't take long for her to start drawing
connections between her job and her new pet. During the day, she
worked with toddlers with significant delays in language
development and used Augmentative and Alternative Communication
(AAC) devices to help them communicate. At night, she wondered: if
dogs can understand words we say to them, shouldn't they be able to
say words to us? Can dogs use AAC to communicate with humans?
Christina decided to put her theory to the test with Stella and
started using a paw-sized button programmed with her voice to say
the word 'outside' when clicked, whenever she took Stella out of
the house. A few years later, Stella now has a bank of more than
thirty word buttons, and uses them daily either individually or
together to create near-complete sentences. How Stella Learned to
Talk is part memoir and part how-to guide. It chronicles the
journey Christina and Stella have taken together, from the day they
met, to the day Stella 'spoke' her first word, and the other
breakthroughs they've had since. It also reveals the techniques
Christina used to teach Stella, broken down into simple stages and
actionable steps any dog owner can use to start communicating with
their best four-legged friend. Filled with conversations that
Stella and Christina have had, as well as the attention to
developmental detail that only a speech-language pathologist could
know, How Stella Learned to Talk will be the indispensable dog book
for the new decade.
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