101 Dog Tricks: Step by Step Activities to Engage, Challenge, and Bond with Your Dog (Volume 1)

Any dog lover, or anyone who has an ounce of compassion in them, should not buy this book. I was appalled by the training techniques instructing you to ‘bop’ your dog on the nose for non compliance. The instructions on training your dog to refuse food, made by blood boil. I’m a behavioural scientist and most of the research out there supports positive reinforcement for dog training. If there had been the option, I would have given this book zero stars.

Really disappointed that this book and training methods still exist in this day and age. In the first chapter it's suggested that in order to get your dog to sit you push his bottom down whilst pulling his neck up with a lead at the same time. it also talks about reinforcing being a pack leader. I gave up after that and decided it wasn't suitable as a gift for a friend who wanted to do more with their dog as I don't want to encourage this outdated method of training. That apart there are indeed a lot of tricks to teach your dog. It appears you need to be extremely athletic though if you are going to do a lot of them. Doing the splits in the air whilst you dog jumps between your legs is not going to be doable for most people I wouldn't think!Annoying that I also have to pay to return as I wouldn't know until opening the book what was written would I?!

An excellent book for teaching dogs tricks. There are other books in the series by Kyra Sundance. They are all highly commendable. They all have easy to follow instructions with plenty of photos.

The cover boasts 'more than 150,000 copies sold' unfortunately 2 of which were bought by me! I got the kindle version thinking it would be easier as a quick reference when training. Sadly I found the format really unusable, as the tricks are organised by type e.g. Chores and games rather than difficulty. I was constantly having to go between the index and contents page to identify the 'easy' rated tricks and then find them in the book. This is a really good book with loads of well explained steps to teach you dog and lots of images, but I strongly recommend buying the book not the kindle version. The kindle version is so expensive as well, I feel really disappointed that I've had to pay twice!!

I love this book! Fantastic tips on training dogs, especially important if (like us) you have a very energetic and bright pooch! Detailed descriptions with photos attached are easy to follow, it's written in a very user friendly style. We worked on the basic training and now we dip into for a new trick if we have a spare evening free.