Let’s Go! Enjoy Companionable Walks with your Brilliant Family Dog: Essential Skills for a Brilliant Family Dog, #3

By Beverley Courtney

Is your dog pulling your arm out of its socket?

 

Learn how to

• build a fervent desire in your dog to walk nicely beside you
• enjoy walks with your dog, rather than behind him
• do it all without any tricky gadgets or instruments of torture
• reach the Holy Grail of dog ownership: walking nicely on the lead!

In this unusual book, Beverley Courtney will show you step-by-step the secrets of walking your dog without needing roller-skates - or shoulder surgery.

The troubleshooting "What if?" sections cover all your questions, and down-to-earth advice is given to help you and your dog learn a new way of enjoying walks together.

 

There's no strange jargon, no "Thou shalt not's", and every time you get stuck, another solution pops up. Beverley's years of experience as a professional positive dog trainer - in face-to-face classes as well as in her popular online programs - shine through. Having taught thousands of new owners how to work with their puppies and dogs - entirely without force - Beverley knows just what you're up against!

 

Buy Book 3 in the series of Essential Skills for a Brilliant Family Dog, and transform your walks, for good!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Beverley Courtney
• Release date: Mar 10, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524268985

Book preview

LET’S GO!

ENJOY COMPANIONABLE WALKS WITH YOUR BRILLIANT FAMILY DOG

ESSENTIAL SKILLS FOR A BRILLIANT FAMILY DOG

BOOK 3

BEVERLEY COURTNEY

CONTENTS

Books By The Author

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Disclaimer

Introduction

1. Equipment that will help you … and equipment to avoid like the plague

So if it’s so bad, why on earth do dogs do it?

But my dog is big and strong!

Collars

The Collar Hold

Harness

Head Halters

Leads

Devices used by the Inquisition

What’s a clicker and do I have to use one?

Treats

TROUBLESHOOTING

In this chapter we have discovered:

2. Change your mindset first

Holding the lead

You never have to pull your dog’s lead again!

Key Lead Skill No.1 Holding the Lead

What you accept is what you get

Time to keep still

Key Lead Skill No.2 Parking

TROUBLESHOOTING

We’ve hardly begun and you have learnt

3. If she’s not out front, where should she be?

Lesson 1: Teaching your dog to find the Reward Spot

Your first tentative steps

Lesson 2: Reward Spot on the Move

TROUBLESHOOTING

In this chapter we have learnt

4. Keeping those hands soft at all times

Key Lead Skill No. 3 Slow Stop

TROUBLESHOOTING

Key Lead Skill No. 4 Lead Stroking

TROUBLESHOOTING

The very beginnings of your companionable walk

TROUBLESHOOTING

In this chapter we’ve learnt

5. Get moving!

1 2 3 Treat!

Lesson 3: Checking in

TROUBLESHOOTING

Let’s take this on the road

More advanced stuff

Really advanced stuff

Lesson 4: Moving past distractions

This is what your dog has now learnt:

6. Complications?

My dog’s friendly!

In this chapter you’ve learnt:

Conclusion

Resources

Appreciation

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About the Author

Copyright © 2016 Beverley Courtney Ltd

The right of Beverley Courtney to be identified as the author of the work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or otherwise, without written permission from the author.

Second edition: 2023

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BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR

Essential Skills for a Brilliant Family Dog

Book 1 Calm Down! Step-by-Step to a Calm, Relaxed, and Brilliant Family Dog

Book 2 Leave it! How to teach Amazing Impulse Control to your Brilliant Family Dog

Book 3 Let’s Go! Enjoy Companionable Walks with your Brilliant Family Dog

Book 4 Here Boy! Step-by-step to a Stunning Recall from your Brilliant Family Dog

Essential Skills for your Growly but Brilliant Family Dog

Book 1 Why is my Dog so Growly? Teach your fearful, aggressive, or reactive dog confidence through understanding

Book 2 Change for your Growly Dog! Action steps to build confidence in your fearful, aggressive, or reactive dog

Book 3 Calm walks with your Growly Dog Strategies and techniques for your fearful, aggressive, or reactive dog

New Puppy: From New Puppy to Brilliant Family Dog

New Puppy! Biting? No sleep? Puddles?

How to survive the early weeks and still love your puppy!

Fetch It!: More skills for a Brilliant Family Dog

Teach your Brilliant Family Dog to catch, fetch, retrieve, find, and bring things back!

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DISCLAIMER

I have made every effort to make my teachings crystal clear, but we’re dealing with live animals here (That’s you, and your dog.) and I can’t see whether you’re doing it exactly right. I am unable to guarantee success, as it depends entirely on the person utilising the training programs, strategies, tools, and resources.

What I do know is that this system works!

Nothing in these books should upset or worry your dog in any way, but if your dog has a pre-existing problem of fear or aggression you should consult a force-free trainer to help. www.brilliantfamilydog. com/growly will get you started.

By the way, to simplify matters I refer to our trainee dog throughout this series as she. He and she will both learn the exact same way. The cumbersome alternatives of he/she or they depersonalise our learner: I want her to be very real to you!

All the photos in this book are of real dogs – either my own, or those of students and readers (with their permission). So the reproduction quality is sometimes not the best. I have chosen the images carefully to illustrate the concepts – so we’ll have to put up with some fuzziness.

INTRODUCTION

Oh no! Not again!

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead.

Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow.

Just walk beside me and be my friend.

— Anonymous

This walk is no fun!

You’re ready for your daily walk. You are full of hope because you know today is going to