Essential Skills for your Growly but Brilliant Family Dog Series

Understanding Your Fearful, Reactive, or Aggressive dog, and Strategies and Techniques to Make Change   Are your dog walks a nightmare? Lunging, barking, pulling you over, and putting on a blood-curdling display of aggression?   You love your dog - a perfect peach at home - so why on earth is she doing this?   Using entirely force-free proven methods, developed through extensive study and working with thousands of dog-owners - and a very readable, jargon-free approach touched with humour! - professional positive dog trainer Beverley Courtney takes you step-by-step through the process of understanding, of change, and teaches you solid techniques to move you forward.   In this series of three books for anxious, fearful, aggressive, or reactive dogs, you have everything you need to build confidence in both you and your dog, so that you can say goodbye to those distressing scenes when your dog barks, screams, and lunges at everything she sees. No longer will you be subjected to the scorn of other dog-owners! You'll learn why your dog is acting as she does, and with understanding comes patience and empathy.   Book 1 in this series Essential Skills for your Growly but Brilliant Family Dog will bring you lots of "Aha!" moments as your dog's complex thoughts are revealed to you. It's essential to understand what's going on before you can make any changes. Don't listen to people who say you have to show your dog who's boss. Beverley will also explain a lot of other things your dog does, and why.   Book 2 goes into the detail of what you're going to change and how, what approaches will work best, and what you need to make it all work. Lots of Lessons in this book. And much of this will involve change for you: exciting!   Finally, Book 3 gets you out there with your dog, enjoying a new way of walking and interacting with her, and making the scenes you've endured before, mercifully, a thing of the past. Lots more Lessons here, and Troubleshooting sections to cover all the "what ifs" you'll come up with for your individual dog.   "Simply makes you a better person and your dog a better dog" 5* reviewer   Don't wait another moment before starting to change life with your dog - for good! Buy this complete set today and make your Growly Dog a Brilliant Family Dog!

Teach Your Fearful, Aggressive, or Reactive dog Confidence through Understanding   Are you at the end of your tether with your reactive dog? Barking, lunging, screaming at people and other dogs?   Here you can learn proven, positive, and simple science-backed techniques developed by professional dog trainer Beverley Courtney through her years of study and working with thousands of dog-owners like you, both face-to-face and in her popular online coaching programs. This first book gives you the essential knowledge about WHY your dog does what he does. The training and techniques in Books 2 and 3 depend on this vital understanding. Skipping this knowledge and jumping into action without it is not going to work!   Picture the scene: you're walking along the road with your dog when - horror of horrors! - another person with a dog appears at the end of the street. You start to breathe faster, your heart rate speeds up, you clutch the lead tightly to you, keeping your dog's head close.   Your dog spots the other dog, and lunges forward on the lead, barking ferociously. You gasp out broken commands as you try to keep your feet on the ground. The other person sweeps by, looking down their nose at you.   Now shame enters the mix. Your dog has behaved badly, you were quite unable to control him, and now you're condemned as a useless dog-owner with a nasty dog. This walk has turned into a walk of shame and misery. Your dog is now on his toes, anxiously scanning for the next intruder to bark at. Your hands are sore, your throat is dry. You wish you could disappear into a hole in the ground, wondering where you have gone wrong.   Sound familiar? The first thing to realise is that you are not alone!   There are lots of people who have dogs whom they love dearly - dogs who are a pleasure and delight about the house, calm, biddable, great with the kids. But as soon as they venture out of the door, the horns and the forked tail grow.   Book 1 in the easy-to-read series Essential Skills for your Growly but Brilliant Family Dog shows you exactly what is going on with your dog - why he's doing what he's doing - and sets you on the road to make some changes born of understanding that will ultimately transform your walks. It's important that you have this knowledge before you attempt to make the changes in Books 2 and 3.   "If you want to enter a phase of partnership and understanding with your dog then this is a book for you!" 5* review   Beverley writes with empathy for anyone whose dog has been labelled anxious, fearful, aggressive, or reactive - and the undercurrent of humour which flows through all her books will keep you smiling as you work through this entirely force-free program. Buy the book and start today!

Action Steps to Build Confidence in Your Fearful, Aggressive, or Reactive dog   Is walking your dog the ultimate nightmare? As she screams, barks, and lunges at other dogs and people?   Stop the cycle now, with professional positive dog trainer Beverley Courtney's life-changing series of books for Growly Dogs.   You know your dog has a lovely personality. She's smashing at home - loves playing with the children, does what you ask, settles quietly when you're busy. But outside ... or perhaps when visitors come ... you have a different dog. The ruckus she makes when confronted with a strange person, a strange dog, even a strange shopping bag, is upsetting for you and frightening for everyone else. She ducks and dives, lunges and surges, barks, snarls, and growls: who wouldn't be alarmed?   In Book 1 you saw what is happening, why it's happening, why it's getting worse, and what you can change to begin the transformation you're looking for - so people can stop seeing your dog as reactive, anxious, fearful, aggressive, and admire the friendly dog you know and love.   Now Book 2 goes into far greater detail to give you strategies and techniques to avoid trouble (and if necessary to get you out of it!). These strategies will enable you to change your mindset, and then change your dog's mindset. If she's to change, then you have to change first!   But nowhere does Beverley tell you it's your fault, or your dog's fault. Blaming is totally unproductive. You need to start where you are, with what you've got, and move forward from there.   "This life-changing book is a MUST READ." says one 5* reviewer.   Beverley takes you by the hand and holds on to it firmly while you move forward in a cheerily positive state of mind! She gives you the missing parts of the puzzle - all force-free and dog-friendly - and you'll be able to see why harsher methods recommended to you in the past have not worked. Get going with Book 2 in this series today!

Strategies and Techniques for Your Fearful, Aggressive, or Reactive dog   Struggling with your reactive, aggressive, anxious dog?   Through her force-free work with thousands of dogs, professional positive dog trainer Beverley Courtney can show you a new way ahead in these readable, jargon-free books!   • In Book 1 you learned WHY your dog is doing what she does. • Book 2 showed you WHAT you can do to start to make big changes. • Now in Book 3 you're going to see HOW to put those changes into action.   No longer will you be the owner of "that nasty dog" who is the curse of the neighbourhood. No longer will you have to walk at The Hour of the Difficult Dog in order to avoid every living creature on the planet. You can start to lose those labels of "reactive", "fearful", "anxious", "aggressive" - even "boisterous and over-friendly".   Beverley will give you specific techniques to deal with your dog's reactivity - on the ground. Through her unique brand of empathy laced with humour, you will change your walks to pleasant outings, your time on the road will be less stressful for both of you - you'll know just how to keep your dog calm and happy. And when he's calm and happy, you're calm and happy!   Along with the skills you've already learnt, the extensive Troubleshooting sections will show you exactly what to do in any given situation, because you'll know why it's happening, what you'd like to happen - and how to achieve that.   "I have had a brilliant walk with him today and he was really good with cars, people and other dogs, with limited reactions. He seems to enjoy meeting other people and dogs now." Joan and Shep, Border Collie Can you believe that in a few short weeks this could be you?   "Buy this book RIGHT NOW. It will change you and your dog and put the joy and understanding back in your relationship with YOUR Growly Dog." 5* reviewer