Collins Good Dog Behaviour : An Owner's Guide

by Gwen Bailey

Published in association with The Blue Cross, one of Britain's top animal welfare societies, this handbook is for all responsible dog owners. It contains numerous step-by-step photographs that will help to make training your dog easy and fun. Gwen Bailey believes that the first step to having a well-behaved dog is for the owner to fully understand the dog's behaviour - only then can you learn to communicate effectively with your pet and create a successful partnership. She maintains that all dogs can be well-behaved and that you can teach an old dog new tricks! You can learn how to be a good owner; talking and listening to your dog; essential ingredients for a well-behaved dog; step-by-step obedience exercises; preventing and solving problem behaviour; how to make your dog really clever.

Genres: Dogs

128 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2002

About the author

Gwen worked for a leading UK national animal welfare charity from 1988-2002 and pioneered the use of dog behaviour knowledge in the rehoming of unwanted animals.

She was the first person to be appointed by a national animal welfare charity as a full time Animal Behaviourist, eventually heading a team of behaviourists.

Gwen has successfully solved behaviour problems in thousands of rehomed dogs, helping to prevent dogs with behavioural problems being passed from home to home and improving the rehoming success rate.

Gwen lectures at national and international conferences, runs training courses for staff at animal charities around the world and has written many books & education leaflets. She is a Trustee for Battersea Dogs and Cats Home.