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Friday, February 19th, 2010

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Thursday, September 10th, 2009
By Karen Pryor
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Scribner Book Company; 1 edition (16 Jun 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0743297768
ISBN-13: 978-0743297769
From the pioneer in the field of clicker training comes an illuminating and revealing look into the minds of all animals.
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Tags: animals, Clicker, clicker training, clicker training for success, karen pryor, positive reinforcement
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009

To the resue
Advice, news and reviews for animal lovers from www.crosskeysbooks.com/news
Look for articles and interesting blogs from our team of experts.
Dr David Sands head the Animal Behavioural Clinic, Chorley, treating pet dogs, cats, birds and horses with behavioural problems. He is an internationally established author and photographer and gained his doctorate in ethology for research completed at Liverpool University.
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Pet agony aunt
Advice, news and reviews for animal lovers from www.crosskeysbooks.com/news
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Celia Haddon
Celia Haddon is the Daily Telegraph pet agony aunt.
Her weekly postbag in the Weekend section includes letters about parrots going bald, hamsters that bite the cat, rabbits who fancy their owners, collies that gaze at the moon, and cats who wake up their owners by dive bombing their intimate bits or biting their toes beneath the duvet.
She is author of Cat Questions and One Hundred Ways to a Happy Cat
http://www.celiahaddon.co.uk
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Dr Ian Billinghurst in surgery
Ian Billinghurst is an Australian veterinarian, working solely with companion animals. He graduated with an Honours degree in Veterinary Science from Sydney University in 1976. Ian also has a degree in Agricultural Science and a Diploma in Education.
After being in practice for about six years, Ian realised that commercial pet foods produced positively bad health in companion animals. His studies in nutrition together with his own extensive observations lead him to a very simple truth. Raw bones with meat, offal, vegetable scraps and other healthy foods – were very close to the evolutionary diet of cats and dogs.
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Tags: barf diet, Dr Ian Billinghurst, eggs, give a dog a bone, give your dog a bone, grow your pups with bones, healthy food for dogs and cats, meaty bones, offal, raw feeding, raw food, raw vegetable material, the barf diet
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
By Stephen G. King©2001-2009
www.clickerzoneuk.co.uk
1. Always, Click once, then treat
2. Make the reinforcement immediate and certain (click and treat). Using a clicker allows you to mark the behaviour just as it happens. The more closely that reinforcement follows the target behaviour the more likely it is to be effective if you are teaching your dog to jump, for example, click when the dog is in mid-flight (criteria for height) and for the long jump at the end of the behaviour, just a the dog lands.
Tags: clicker training, clicker training for success, top tips, training tips
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