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Circus Tricks for Your Dog: 25 Crowd-Pleasers That Will Make Your Dog a Star By Rick Martin

 

All dog owners know their pooch has star power. Now they can prove it, by teaching Fido these show-stopping feats worthy of the Big Top. Rick Martin—trainer of The Tricky Dogs—offers all the informative guidance needed to transform eager pups into canine dynamos. Geared toward dogs that have already had some solid basic obedience training (sit, down, stay), these applause-gathering acrobatics include such time-tested classics as crawling, standing on the hind legs, spinning around, and jumping through a hoop. And for something really amazing: have Rover ride on a skateboard! (Don’t forget to have your four-legged friend bow to the adoring crowd afterwards.) Throughout, pictures of famous dog performers and colorful circus graphics and images provide inspiration.

4 ½ out of 5 stars on Amazon.

 

Agility Tricks For Improved Attention, Flexibility and Confidence By Donna Duford

 

While dog tricks have traditionally been viewed as cute, silly, and often inconsequential to serious agility trainers, Donna Duford shows us how to make tricks such as Touch, Sit Pretty, Bow, Spin, Figure Eight, High Five, Crawl, Rollover, and Back Up useful items in our agility toolbox. You can use tricks to reduce your dog's stress at trials, enhance your relationship with your dog, increase strength and flexibility, teach your dog to tune in to you better, or simply as a warm-up before going in the agility ring. In Agility Tricks, Donna Duford provides several different methods for teaching each trick so that you can choose the method that best suits how your dog learns and what motivates him. The book includes a chapter on different techniques for positively training any skill to a dog.

3 ½ out of 5 stars on Amazon.

 

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