Trainer-Selected Dog Training & Behavior Books, Videos, & CDs

Learn to rehabilitate aggression and fear. Behavior Adjustment Training DVD made for home viewers.

Easy to follow steps to train your dog to come when it really counts, in an emergency. Contains chapters for difficult to train breeds and for trainers to use in class.

Massive resource for people serious enough about modifying their dog's fear that they're willing to do some reading.

Author: Nicole Wilde, CPDT

Behavior Adjustment Training gives the dogs a chance to learn to control their environment through peaceful means. It’s very empowering to the dog, in a good way. Get a good start on learning what BAT is, how it's done, and how you can combine it with other methods.

Hear Hear! goes through training a deaf dog step-by-step. It covers basic training that most pet dog owners require, including teaching the dog to sit, lay down, stand, walk nicely on a lead, stay, and to come back when ‘called’. It also covers important subjects like socialization and suggests ways of overcoming some of the most common unwanted behavior, like jumping up, barking and preventing your dog becoming destructive when left on its own.

Follow the journey of a second-hand Border Collie and his professional dog trainer/owner in this warts-and-all diary of their lives over 18 months. Every owner or trainer who has ever lived or worked with an aggressive dog will gain new insights from Shadow.

Would you like to live in harmony in a house with multiple dogs?! It can most easily be obtained when positive reinforcement training techniques are used, along with proper living space management and good feeling habits. You'll learn how to do all those things in this book.

What is your dog saying when she plays? Learn to read dog body language so you can stop trouble before it starts.

This is the training manual that we use in our classes. It is a free download for students in PDF form (students - check your email), but you can purchase a spiral-bound copy here.

Some breeds of dogs and mixes have a reputation as "impossible" to train. Hounds, terriers, bully breeds, and other dogs are often called pig-headed and even untrainable. Not true! Learn these "Pigs Fly" methods and take advantage of the natural strengths of these independent and intelligent dogs.

Clicker Training isn't just for dogs. It works great with all kinds of species. Even your cat can figure out what you want from her.

Top dog trainers show you the best training methods for a polite and well-mannered dog and also show you important rules to teach your child.

This book has great ideas to help have a calm, happy life with your dog. From mental exercise to loose leash walking, this 2009 book is a hit!

This is a fairly easy read and a great way to get a solid theoretical and practical foundation for training your dog, child, or spouse!

Author: Karen Pryor

Great book on managing predation by Clarissa von Reinhardt.

Dogs can be fearful if they are not used to a particular sound, like babies crying, thunderstorms, dogs barking, etc. These CD are for socializing puppies and desensitizing adult dogs to scary sounds.

What is your dog saying? How can you use that to speak back?

Author: Turid Rugaas

A practical guide to the treatment of dog-dog aggression. Learn to use behavior modification to retrain a dog that bullies other dogs, or becomes fearful when approached by other dogs.

Teach your puppy to be a responsible citizen using this simple book!

Authors: Patricia McConnell, Ph.D. and Brenda Scidmore

Learn how to make the dog park a good experience for your dog - or see if the dog park is even the right place for your dog to be.

Author: Cheryl Smith

Be the star of your neighborhood! Practical solutions for management and elimination of on leash barking, lunging, growling, etc.

Authors: Patricia McConnell, Ph.D. and Karen London, Ph.D.

This is Patricia McConnell's NEW book with Karen London, subtitled, "Happy and Healthy Play Between People and Dogs." It's got great ideas for play and training with dogs.

More dogs than people in your household? Bring peace to your pack without alpha rolls.

Authors: Karen London, Ph.D. and Patricia McConnell, Ph.D.

Stumped on how to crate train your puppy? Here's how!

Teach your puppy or adult dog to stay alone without stress or fear.

Author: Patricia McConnell, Ph.D.

Teach your shy dog or puppy learn to face the world and the streets of Seattle! Useful for getting dogs over all kinds of fears.

Author: Patricia McConnell, Ph.D.

Train your dog to eliminate where and when you want using this short, easy to read booklet.

Authors: Karen London, Ph.D. and Patricia McConnell, Ph.D.