Gwen Bayley Books

Unleash your dog's potential and build a rewarding relationship that will last a lifetime! From walking on a loose lead to carrying the shopping, The Beginner's Dog Training Guide has everything you need to know to train your dog and ensure you have a happy canine companion. Choose the right dog breed for you and then keep your dog healthy by understanding their exercise, diet, and grooming needs. Follow clear, step-by-step explanations and illustrations to learn every aspect of owning and training a dog, from basic obedience to advanced tricks. Expert advice accompanied by over 800 clear photographs provide a user-friendly visual guide to training your dog, by showing you exactly what to do. Filled with tips and tricks, this book will help you become the owner of a well-behaved, healthy, and happy dog! This dog training book - An easy-to-follow approach to understanding dog behaviour and dog training based on the latest research into canine intelligence - Offers expert guidance on selecting the right dog for you, with a catalogue of the most popular breeds - Features behavioural analysis to help you understand what your dog is thinking - More than 800 photographs provide clear visual guidance so you know exactly what to do to succeed with your dog - A must-have volume for families training their new pet, for first-time dog owners and experienced owners alike as well as those interested in training theory and dog psychology.

Published in association with The Blue Cross, one of Britain's top animal welfare societies, this handbook is for all responsible dog owners. It contains numerous step-by-step photographs that will help to make training your dog easy and fun. Gwen Bailey believes that the first step to having a well-behaved dog is for the owner to fully understand the dog's behaviour - only then can you learn to communicate effectively with your pet and create a successful partnership. She maintains that all dogs can be well-behaved and that you can teach an old dog new tricks! You can learn how to be a good owner; talking and listening to your dog; essential ingredients for a well-behaved dog; step-by-step obedience exercises; preventing and solving problem behaviour; how to make your dog really clever.

From walking on a loose lead to carrying the shopping, this title includes what you need to know to train your dog and ensure you have a happy contented canine companion. schovat popis

The Perfect Puppy tells you all you need to know in order to turn your pup into a well-adjusted, confident, happy adult dog. Here you'll find the most up-to-date behavioral information. Author Gwen Bailey is a strong advocate of prevention rather than cure, and she shows how to avoid the problems that so many owners encounter. The book offers comprehensive chapters on the importance of choosing a breed that suits your family and home, taking your puppy home, and easing its introduction to a wide variety of environments. In addition, you'll learn about housebreaking, helping your puppy to accept its position in the hierarchy of the human pack, handling and grooming, and the importance of games for both puppy and owner. Throughout The Perfect Puppy, Gwen Bailey recommends the benefits of reward-based training methods, which help the owner to begin training while the puppy is relatively young and which yield a strong bond between owner and animal. She also explains how puppies learn and presents practical training exercises accompanied by easy-to-follow color photographs. Bailey tells us how to enjoy the lovable puppy stage while making your pup a well-mannered, sociable friend.

Is he happy, angry, playful or distressed? What made him chew your shoe or dig up the lawn? What IS your dog thinking?Written by one of the country's leading Animal Behaviourists, this fascinating book offers expert analysis and clear explanations as to why your dog behaves the way he does. From social behaviour on walks to playful behaviour at home, it's all here in this accessible and fully-illustrated reference book. A petcare classic, What is my Dog Thinking? will ensure that you're never confused by your canine again.

Focused on building a strong bond with your dog, this guide offers comprehensive training techniques from basic obedience to advanced tricks. It includes practical advice on selecting the right breed, as well as insights into maintaining your dog's health through proper exercise, diet, and grooming. With over 800 detailed photographs and clear, step-by-step instructions, readers can easily follow along to ensure their dog becomes a well-behaved and happy companion. This resource is essential for any dog owner looking to enhance their training experience.

Discover what your dog naturally needs for a healthy, happy life.

Happy, bored, playful, worried? There are probably times when you wish you knew what your cat was thinking. From purring to hissing, from playfighting to spraying, this fascinating book explains why your cat behaves the way he does. What is my Cat Thinking? covers six major aspects of cat behaviour: *Social animals *Territory *Fitness and hunting *Reproduction *Safety *People and cats

For both current dog owners and those who plan to purchase a dog in the future, this book shows how to understand the animal. Interactive, full-color photos on nearly every page give detailed, step-by-step demonstrations for simple commands and hands-off training methods.

Offers a puppy care programme telling you what you need to know about house training, socialisation, feeding, exercising and vaccinating. This title gives helpful advice on choosing the right breed for your family.