Exploring the Outdoors with our four legged friends

There are several books and journals that I’ve found useful when understanding how to train, handle, and coexist with working dogs. Research here is meant to move past obedience training, and explore knowledge required for a greater understanding of canines. Experiments have been designed by different Operant conditioning psychologist, behaviorist, inventors, and social philosophers that involve canines. I will explore some of those showing how providing positive reinforcement is more effective long term over negative punishment. Not only does it put emphasize on the physical and mental wellbeing of the animal, but it also builds and further solidifies trust and a relationship.

Book notes from the K9 training series

Summarize different resources

K9 Behavior Basics - A Manual for Proven Success in Operational Service Dog Training

Contents:

1. Operational Service Dogs
2. Ancestor Wolf
3. Basic Concepts in Dog Behavior
4. Developmental Stages and Behavior
5. Expressions, Gestures, and Signlas
6. Reading Your Dog
7. Operant Conditioning Development and Basic Principles
8. Physical Punishment in Dog Training
9. Training Service Dogs Using Operant Conditioning

K9 Obedience Training - Teaching Pets and Working Dogs to Be Reliable and Free-Thinking

Contents:

1. What is a Free-Thinking Dog?
2. A Positive Training Philosophy
3. Talking to Your Dog
4. Questions to Ask Before You Start Training
5. Housetraining and Crate Training
6. Handling Your Dog’s Body for Grooming and Hygiene
7. The Equipment
8. Setting Up for Success
9. Basic Obedience Training
10. Advanced Obedience for Safe Work, Sport, and Play
11. Exercises for Common Behavioral Challenges
12. Tricks

K9 Schutzhund Training - A Manual for IPO Training through Positive Reinforcement

Contents: Part A. Tracking

1. Tracking Basics
2. the Different Parts of Tracking
3. Training with Tracking Equipment
4. Tracking with Treats
5. Tracking with Toys

Part B. Obedience

1. Obedience Basics
2. Obedience Exercises
3. Basic Position and Off-leash Heeling
4. Sit, Down, and Stand Exercises
5. The Retrieving Exercises
6. Send Out and Down Under Distraction

Part C. Protection

1. Protection Work Basics
2. The Different Parts of Protection Work
3. Advanced Decoy Techniques
4. Raising Dogs for Protection Work
5. Training without a Decoy
6. Building Up Protection Work

K9 Search and Rescue Troubleshooting - Practical Solutions to Common Search-Dog Training Problems

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K9 Scent Training - A Manual for Training Your Identification, Tracking and Detection Dog

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K9 Search and Rescue - A Manual for Training the Natural Way

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K9 Teams - Beyond the Basics of Search and Rescue and Recovery

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K9 Investigation Errors - A Manual for Avoiding Mistakes

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K9 Explosive and Mine Detection - A Manual for Training and Operations

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K9 Personal Protection - A Manual for Training Reliable Protection Dogs

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K9 Agression Control - Teaching the “Out”

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K9 Decoys and Aggression - A Manual for Training Police Dogs

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The Malinois - The History and Development of the Breed in Schutzhund, Detection, and Police Work

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History on domesticated dogs.

The dog is a domesticated carnivore of the family Canidae.

K9 Kit

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