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Question by Puppy says- SPAY & NEUTER!: what are they best books on dog training and dog behavior?
I’d like to add some new books to my collection, mainly on training and behavior. I’m not a huge fan of cesear millan so please don’t suggest only his books. Please titles and authors if you can. I want books that you’ve read first hand and enjoy. Books that you would recommend to a friend.

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Answer by btdt
For raising and training puppies I like Dr. Ian Dunbar’s books Before You Get Your Puppy and After You Get Your Puppy. For the dog-human interaction I like Patricia O’Connell’s The Other End of the Leash.

For a general book, It’s Me or the Dog is actually pretty good and comprehensive.

Edit: Some books recommended represent training techniques based on outdated understanding of canine behavior. For example, the ideas of the Monks of New Skete were transitional between the old harsh training techniques and modern positive techniques. Be careful what you take from them. My 1978 edition of How To Be Your Dog’s Best Friend, talks about how to discipline, for crimes as heinous as house soiling:

“How hard do you hit the dog? A good general rule is that if you did not get a response, a yelp or other sign, after the first hit, it wasn’t hard enough. Remember, one good correction will save you fifty. You cannot hurt the dog with this method, or cause irreparable damage. Your contact must be firm.” The chapter closes with the notorious, misguided “Alpha-Wolf Roll-Over.”

As far as Siegal and Margolis go, I have seen “Uncle Matty” training in person. In my opinion he is a charlatan.

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(See More @ www.DogStarDaily.com ) Dr. Ian Dunbar shows how to teach your dog to stand on command. To truly teach your dog position changes, you’ll need to work on at least three positions (sit, down & stand)

(See More @ www.DogStarDaily.com ) Dr. Ian Dunbar explains how to teach your dog the most valuable command in dog training: sit. If your dog sits anytime you want it to, it eliminates so many more major behavior problems.

Noted veterinarian and dog trainer Dr. Ian Dunbar offers a few of the “million different ways” to train a dog, outlining three simple strategies. EG is the celebration of the American entertainment industry. Since 1984, Richard Saul Wurman has created extraordinary gatherings about learning and understanding. EG is a rich extension of these ideas – a conference that explores the attitude of understanding in music, film, television, radio, technology, advertising, gaming, interactivity and the web – The Entertainment Gathering Dr. Ian Dunbar is a veterinarian, animal behaviorist, and writer. Dr. Dunbar received his veterinary degree and a Special Honors degree in Physiology & Biochemistry from the Royal Veterinary College (London University) and a doctorate in animal behavior from the Psychology Department at the University of California in Berkeley, where he spent ten years researching olfactory communication, the development of hierarchical social behavior, and aggression in domestic dogs. Dr. Dunbar has written numerous books, including How To Teach A New Dog Old Tricks, the Good Little Dog Book and a series of Behavior Booklets: separate educational booklets on each of the most common pet behavior problems. Additionally, Dunbar has hosted eleven videotapes on puppy/dog behavior and training, including SIRIUS ® Puppy Training, Training Dogs With Dunbar and Every Picture Tells A Story. All his videos have won a variety of awards.