Calm Down! Step-by-Step to a Calm, Relaxed, and Brilliant Family Dog: Essential Skills for a Brilliant Family Dog, #1
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Is your dog driving you mad?
Learn how to
• find your dog's off-switch
• enjoy a calm visit to a cafe or pub
• reach your dog's mind without losing yours
• enjoy your dog again!
Instead of saying "This is what you do," then leaving you to it, Beverley Courtney takes you by the hand and troubleshoots all the games so that you can get them absolutely right for you and your individual dog. And the joy is that this is all achieved without shouting, force, or intimidation. Just pure undiluted fun!
There's no strange jargon, no "Thou shalt not's", and every time you get stuck, another solution pops up. Beverley's years of experience as a professional positive dog trainer - in face-to-face classes as well as her online programs - shine through. Having taught thousands of new owners how to work with their puppies and dogs - entirely without force - Beverley knows just what you're up against!
Buy Book 1 in this series of Essential Skills for a Brilliant Family Dog and learn how to get what you want from your dog, as it sends him off to sleep for you - zzzzzz!
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Calm Down! Step-by-Step to a Calm, Relaxed, and Brilliant Family Dog - Beverley Courtney
CALM DOWN!
STEP-BY-STEP TO A CALM, RELAXED, AND BRILLIANT FAMILY DOG
ESSENTIAL SKILLS FOR A BRILLIANT FAMILY DOG
BOOK 1
BEVERLEY COURTNEY
CONTENTS
Books By The Author
Free Training for you!
Disclaimer
Introduction
1. Introducing the Mat!
What do you need?
Your Mat
Treats
Good treats
OK treats
Fairly rubbish treats
TROUBLESHOOTING
2. Starting with the Mat
Lesson 1
TROUBLESHOOTING
In this chapter we have established that:
3. Mat Magic!
Lesson 2
How do I get my dog to lie down?
Teaching her Down on the mat
Capture a Down
Lie down in a tunnel
Luring into a Down
TROUBLESHOOTING
Lesson 3
TROUBLESHOOTING
In this chapter we have established that:
4. What do I do with this mat now?
Coffee with a friend, or Sunday lunch at the pub
A peaceful evening in the living room
Visiting the vet
Family picnic
In this chapter we have learnt that:
5. Taking it on the road
The doorbell!
Targets
Preparing dinner
Mat substitutes
Reports from the Front Line
In this chapter we have established that:
6. Surprise benefits of Mat Magic!
How should our day go?
In this chapter we have established that:
Conclusion
Resources
Appreciation
Free Training for you!
About the Author
Copyright © 2016 Beverley Courtney Ltd
The right of Beverley Courtney to be identified as the author of the work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or otherwise, without written permission from the author.
Second edition: 2023
www.brilliantfamilydog.com
BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR
Essential Skills for a Brilliant Family Dog
Book 1 Calm Down! Step-by-Step to a Calm, Relaxed, and Brilliant Family Dog
Book 2 Leave it! How to teach Amazing Impulse Control to your Brilliant Family Dog
Book 3 Let’s Go! Enjoy Companionable Walks with your Brilliant Family Dog
Book 4 Here Boy! Step-by-step to a Stunning Recall from your Brilliant Family Dog
Essential Skills for your Growly but Brilliant Family Dog
Book 1 Why is my Dog so Growly? Teach your fearful, aggressive, or reactive dog confidence through understanding
Book 2 Change for your Growly Dog! Action steps to build confidence in your fearful, aggressive, or reactive dog
Book 3 Calm walks with your Growly Dog Strategies and techniques for your fearful, aggressive, or reactive dog
New Puppy: From New Puppy to Brilliant Family Dog
New Puppy! Biting? No sleep? Puddles?
How to survive the early weeks and still love your puppy!
Fetch It!: More skills for a Brilliant Family Dog
Teach your Brilliant Family Dog to catch, fetch, retrieve, find, and bring things back!
FREE TRAINING FOR YOU!
Get the next piece of the puzzle
Jumping up?
Barking?
Chewing?
Get inventive solutions to everyday problems with your dog with our free email course at
https://brilliant-family-dog.ck.page/bfd-ecourse
DISCLAIMER
I have made every effort to make my teachings crystal clear, but we’re dealing with live animals here (That’s you, and your dog.) and I can’t see whether you’re doing it exactly right. I am unable to guarantee success, as it depends entirely on the person utilising the training programs, strategies, tools, and resources.
What I do know is that this system works!
Nothing in these books should upset or worry your dog in any way, but if your dog has a pre-existing problem of fear or aggression you should consult a force-free trainer to help. www.brilliantfamilydog. com/growly will get you started.
By the way, to simplify matters I refer to our trainee dog throughout this series as she.
He
and she
will both learn the exact same way. The cumbersome alternatives of he/she
or they
depersonalise our learner: I want her to be very real to you!
All the photos in this book are of real
dogs – either my own, or those of students and readers (with their permission). So the reproduction quality is sometimes not the best. I have chosen the images carefully to illustrate the concepts – so we’ll have to put up with some fuzziness.
INTRODUCTION
Coco (15 weeks) says, If this thing is on the ground, I must need to sit on it.
Time for a change
You, your dog and your family have