The best puppy training book around is "Building Blocks for Performance" by
Bobbie Anderson &Tracy Libby, published by Alpine Press. She stressed play
training and building a relationship with your dog, its just great. Although
its geared to training a puppy, its methods can be used for an older
I would love to read about training methods that work with spirited puppies.
I have had dogs all my life and at times was completely befuddled with Han.
If I had been a newbe I might have given up. As it is, he is developing
into a wonderful dog. I have a list of things that I tried (some worked
When I posted about what a piranha Mercedes was as a puppy in reply to a
biting Berner post I got a lot of private posts from people with similar
situations. Several of these folks had kids as I did. I did my best to
describe what worked for us and probably forgot a lot in each individual
post.
