Summer reading sale!
If this year’s summer vacation looks a little less like a trip to the Bahamas and a little more like a trip to your neighbor’s kiddie pool, you’re in good company. But staying close to home doesn’t have to mean sacrificing what summer’s all about. Take advantage of our flat-rate $6.99 shipping and stock up on a pile of great reads, including Karen Pryor’s new release, Reaching the Animal Mind. Brew yourself a pitcher of fresh iced tea and enjoy some lazy reading time—always a treat, even if you aren’t spread out on a tropical beach.
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|  “This is a book about loving, understanding, and communicating with animals. Animals are a lot smarter and more aware than we used to think. Now you can share my personal experiences training and communicating with animals ranging from an elephant to a hermit crab. You’ll learn how you, too, can bring out the intelligence, personality, warmth, even humor, in dogs, cats, horses, and other pets, and have fun doing it, too.” - Karen Pryor | | Another great puzzle toy from Nina Ottosson! This advanced game for the smart dog or cat will keep your pet’s mind active. Hide treats under wood blocks and encourage your pet to hunt for a reward, earned when the right blocks are moved through the puzzle’s bendy tracks. As your pet learns, you can increase the challenge by adding blocks. | | How many times have you been frustrated by juggling a clicker, a treat bag, a handful of treats, a leash, and your dog—in a distracted attempt to train loose-leash walking or another on-leash behavior? Now you can click and hold your leash with one hand. The Clicker Leash has a clicker built right into the handle, improving your timing and the effectiveness of your training sessions. | | In this DVD, Deborah Jones, Ph.D., and Judy Keller demonstrate the application of their FOCUS program while introducing a puppy or a "green" dog to agility obstacles. The ultimate goal of focused obstacle training is to help your dog develop a clear understanding of how to negotiate each obstacle fluently and consistently on a single cue. The goal is for your dog to display confident and independent obstacle skills. This is accomplished by training for understanding and enjoyment at each stage before adding further challenges. | | With its ergonomic hourglass shape, the Spring Roll fetch toy offers hours of entertaining quality time for you and your pooch. Chosen by Business Week for its top Gold Award, the Spring Roll bounces, springs, and jumps in erratic and entertaining ways that are sure to amaze, mystify, and occupy your companion’s attention for hours. Whether you bounce it, toss it, or roll it, your canine friend will always be challenged by the Spring Roll’s erratic motion. |
See more... | argostrax is an easy, yet powerful, tool that has been designed specifically to help you run your dog training business. With argostrax as your "partner" you can do all of the following: pet owners information tracking, pet information tracking, appointment scheduling, pet training progress tracking, and much more! | | “The Bamboo Clicker DVD is a beautifully produced introduction to clicker training. It’s absolutely gorgeous. Every step in clicker training is gracefully tied to a Japanese tradition, such as a tea ceremony or bonsai. The costuming is brilliant. All in all, a feast for the eyes and a clicker trainer’s sensibilities. An excellent resource for beginners and those who teach beginners.”—Karen Pryor | | “The Pre-Sports Puppy by Rachel Sanders is a positively-based training program aimed at teaching the necessary foundation behaviors to the serious competition agility puppy. Rachel presents her material in a clear and concise manner, with the exquisite help of her Jack Russell Terrier, Bette.” —Emma Parsons, ClickerExpo and Karen Pryor Academy (KPA) faculty member | | It is such a joy to work with a dog who proactively engages in behaviors while you build a relationship that will surprise you in its depth and versatility. Clicker training has proven to be the most effective means of developing a “Thinking Dog,” one who offers behaviors in anticipation of a reward rather than a dog who has been trained only to wait for his owner’s commands. One of the biggest obstacles the new clicker trainer faces, however, is his or her own history of training and habits of working with a dog. But you can make the transition once you understand how dogs learn and the mechanisms of operant conditioning. Learn from author Gail Fisher’s crossover experiences as well as those of the hundreds of students she has helped make the change over the past thirteen years. | | An active, ingenious game for you and your dog!
To play, the dog looks for treats by pulling out flaps in different directions. In each flap there is a depression where a treat can be hidden. You can increase the degree of difficulty by locking the flaps using the plugs on the top. |
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