Disclaimer

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Introduction

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1.0  Choosing Your Dog

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Family (Friend, Assistant, Mate, Interaction, Littermate or Packmate, Competition Partner)

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2.0    Basic Dog Care

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2.1    Food & Additives in Relation to Dog Training

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2.1.1 Treats

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2.1.2 Feeding Time

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2.1.3 Dog Food

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2.1.4 Additives

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2.1.5 Introducing New Food or New Additives

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2.1.6 Traveling With Your Pet

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2.1.7 Basic Pet Manner

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2.1.8 Exercise and Food

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2.1.9 Water

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2.2    Dogs & Housing

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2.2.1 Sun Protection

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2.2.2 Overheating

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2.2.3 Frostbite

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2.2.4 Footpads

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2.3    Grooming

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2.3.1-2.3.5 plus picture of tools

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2.4    Sleep

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2.5    Relationships

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2.6    Dogs That Are Needy

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2.7    Traveling & The Comforts of Home

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2.8   Boosters & Worming

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2.9   Stranger Danger

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2.10  Poisons

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3.0    Equipment, Basic Obedience (picture)

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3.1    Training Equipment & Advice

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3.1.1 Leases

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3.1.2 Collars

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3.1.3 Flexi-Lead

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3.1.4 Bait

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3.1.5 Praise Word/Wrong Behavior Word/Release Word

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3.1.6 Nagging is a No-No

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3.1.7 alternative Behavior Commands

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3.2    Name Recognition

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3.3    Come

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3.3.1  Practical Come for Pets

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3.3.2  Come Here (sounds like Come-ear when run together)

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3.3.3  Come Front

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3.3.4  Problems with the Come

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3.4     Sit

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3.4.1  Teaching the Tucked Sti

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3.4.2  Moving Sit

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3.4.3  Signal Sit

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3.4.4  Sit Away From Handler

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3.4.5  Signal Sit

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3.4.6  Problems with Sits

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3.4.7  Sit & Stay

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3.4.8  Problems with Sit Stays

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3.4.9  Sit and Greet

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3.4.10 Line-Up

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To Teach Your Dog the Lineup

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3.4.11 Round or Circle

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3.4.12 Snappier Line-Ups and Arounds or Circles

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3.4.13 Dogs finishing sloppily

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3.5     Down or Lie Down or Drop

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3.5.1  Stationary Down:  Stand your dog

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3.5.2  Moving Down

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3.5.3  Signal Down

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3.5.4  Problems with Downs

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3.5.5  Downs away from you

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3.5.6  Down and Stay

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3.5.7  Problems with Stays

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3.6     Stand and Teeth Inspection

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3.6.3  Standing from a sit and down

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3.6.2  Moving Stand

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3.6.3  Stand for Inspection

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3.7    Attention Training and Heeling

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3.7.1  Attention Training

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3.7.1.1 Put Your Dog toe-to-toe to you

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3.7.1.2 Put the dog in sitting heel position beside you

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3.7.1.3 Add Distractions

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3.7.2 Heeling

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3.7.3 Puppy Advice

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3.7.4 Pace and Stride

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3.7.5 Backing Up

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3.7.5.1 We Teach Dogs to Back Up for Stock Work

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3.7.5.2 We Can Play the Back-Up Game With our Dogs with Toys

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3.8  Wait

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3.9  Leave It

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3.10 Off

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Section 4: Fun-Do's

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4.1 Shake

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4.2 High Fives

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4.3 Beg

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4.4 Fetch

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4.5 Tug-a-War

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4.6 Spins or Twists

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4.7 Walk on Hind Legs

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4.8 Speak and/or Quiet

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4.9 Alternative Command

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4.10 Rollover

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4.11 Crawl

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4.12 Catch

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4.13 Frisbee

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4.14 Flyball

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4.15 Forced Pick Up, Hold & Retrieve

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4.16 Alert Dogs

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5.0  Teaching Your Dog to Jump and to Go Out

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5.1 Teaching Your Dog to Jump

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5.2 Teaching Directed Jumping

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5.2.1 Teaching the Dog to Jump Right or Left

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5.2.2 Teaching the Dog to Jump Obstacles

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5.2 Teaching Your Dog to Go Out

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Section 6 Scent Work

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Section 7 The Many Parts of Each Exercise

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The Partnership, Communication, CERP, The Dog's World

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Teaching Direction Cues (such as for Stockwork) outside the stock arena

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Opportunities

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Rally

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Obedience

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Herding/Working

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Tracking

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Therapy Work

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Frisbee

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Flyball

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Search & Rescue

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Search & Seizure

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Protection

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Section 10: Registries & Contact Information for Competition, Service Work, Health Issues, & Rescue

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The Partnership (as seen on the dvd/video)

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BEV

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CERP

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The Dog's World

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About the Trainers

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ORDER BLANK

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