PumpkinPups Dog Training

Learn the how-to’s of teaching basic good manners: sit, down, attention, loose-leash walking, recall etc. as well as offering help with common problems.  Each of these books covers similar topics, you decide whose style you like best.

Positive Perspectives:  Love Your Dog, Train Your Dog
By Pat Miller. Step-by-step manners program, with tricks thrown in, detailed and comprehensive. www.peaceablepaws.com

Outwitting Dogs:  Revolutionary techniques for dog training that work!
By Terry Ryan and Kirsten Mortensen.   Manners training and troubleshooting.

How To Behave So Your Dog Behaves
By Sophia Yin, DVM

 If you are living with kids and dogs or about to be this small book is a gem.

Living with Kids and Dogs: Without Losing Your Mind

By Colleen Pelar

There are now three excellent books available if you need more information about how to help your fearful/reactive/aggressive dog.

Help for Your Fearful Dog
By Nicole Wilde

Click to Calm
By Emma Parsons

Control Unleashed

By Leslie McDevitt

Interested in digging a little deeper?  Read these books and discover more about learning theory and dog behavior and how our canine companions think and learn.
Not technical or complicated, yet thorough, readable and entertaining.

The Other End of the Leash   and….
For the Love of a Dog
        Plus various information packed pamphlets
By Patricia McConnell, PhD.
Delightful, informative books about dogs and people and how they do and don’t communicate successfully, from an experienced animal behavior researcher and trainer. See her website, www.dogsbestfriendtraining.com.

Culture Clash
By Jean Donaldson
Truly excellent book if you want to understand what motivates your dog, written in an occasionally sarcastic style.

Don’t Shoot the Dog
By Karen Pryor
Excellent for practical applications for the use of positive reinforcement to modify the behavior of dogs and everyone else in you life.

Successful Dog Adoption
By Sue Sternberg
A must read if you are considering adopting a dog from a shelter or rescue group.

Before You Get Your Puppy
By Ian Dunbar, DVM
(A must read before getting a puppy, this publication can be downloaded free from the following website:  www.jamesandkenneth.com)

Why We Love the Dogs We Do: How to find the dog that matches your personality
By Stanley Coren
Stanley Coren has written many terrific dog books.  This one has some practical personality tests you can take to help you figure out what types of dogs you will fit best into your life.

.....about health and nutrition

Natural Health for Dogs & Cats

Richard H. Pitcairn, DVM, Ph.D
    & Susan Hubble Pitcairn
Comprehensive guide to natural health care for pets, nutrition & health.  Includes information on cooked and raw diets.

Raw Dog Food: Make it Easy for You and Your Dog!

Carina Beth MacDonald
This is a straight forward and practical book. which includes a six page appendix of resources to learn more about feed raw: books, websites, tools for preparing the food and sources for ordering prepared raw food.