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Your Positive Puppy Training Starter Pack (2003), 141pp, $18

Book Two in a series of three books, Aunty Kaye's Guide to Surviving Your Dog's First Year of Life. This volume deals with the puppy stage. It covers early socialisation and training for puppies. It covers the top ten topics in puppy training.

Introduction: the Positive Way to Train Your Puppy
1. Establishing the ground rules
2. Socialisation and early training
3. Daily routines - toilet training, sleeping, feeding
4. Settling your puppy down
5. “Ouch!” - mouthing and biting
6. “Roll over, Beethoven” - handling and grooming
7. Chewing and “Home alone” problems
8. “Puppy, Come!”
9. “Games puppies play”
10. “First steps” - walking on the lead

EXTRACT

At all times I emphasise rewarding your puppy for good behaviour, and ensuring that unwanted behaviour doesn’t get rewarded, even by accident. I also emphasise the importance of using food, praise and other fun things to create a pleasant association for the pup with various experiences in life.
I hope you will read Book One in this series: Training With A Friendly Face, which will give you plenty of information about how to train using rewards. Just in case you don’t have Book One in front of you, I will recap briefly on training methods.
You can start training your puppy, using gentle methods of encouragement and reward, from 8 weeks of age and you should continue as the dog grows up. Please don’t wait until problems have started to show up.
Book Three in the series, Sit Happens - Civilising Your Dog, shows you how to continue with training after the puppy stage. It covers the top ten topics in practical pet dog training.

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