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Do you have a gun dog and want to have a great time working with your dog and perhaps enter a field trial? Do you want to find a training method where your dog has just as much fun as you do? Do you want to learn how to combine clicker training and field trial training? If so, this is the book for you. Retrieving for All Occasions is an accessible and inspiring book about how you can use the clicker training philosophy in your gun dog training. The book describes an approach to gun dog training that will challenge you to try something new ? if you have the desire and will to do so. This book includes over 100 exercises to train a talented spaniel or retriever. The exercises are for introductory field trial classes for spaniels and retrievers, but this book is also useful for those who have pointers or setters and want to train them for gun dog work. Elsa Blomster and Lena Gunnarsson are dog training instructors in Gothenburg, Sweden, and base all their training on the clicker training philosophy. They train and compete with their spaniels and retrievers in obedience, agility, rally obedience, tracking, and field trials.

Do you have a gun dog and want to have a great time working with your dog and perhaps enter a field trial? Do you want to find a training method where your dog has just as much fun as you do? Do you want to learn how to combine clicker training and field trial training? If so, this is the book for you.

A pioneering speech therapist's memoir of her groundbreaking work in communicating with dogs, from social media sensation Christina Hunger and her dog, Stella.

<p>In <i>Birds and Us,</i> award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey through this mutual history with birds, from the ibises mummified and deified by Ancient Egyptians to Renaissance experiments on woodpecker anatomy, from Victorian obsessions with egg collecting to the present fight to save endangered species and restore their habitats.<br/><br/>Weaving in stories from his own life as a scientist, including far-flung expeditions to wondrous Neolithic caves in Spain and the bustling guillemot colonies of the Faroe Islands, this rich and fascinating book is the culmination of a lifetime's research and unforgettably shows how birds shaped us, and how we have shaped them.<br/><br/>'<i>Birds</i><i> and</i> <i>Us</i> wings its way through 12,000 years of our species' engagement with the avian world. Birkhead tells it all with delightful gusto, plaiting personal encounters with challenging historical research and bewitching scientific rigor' <b>Tim Dee</b><br/><br/>'Thought-provoking at every turn, this inspiring, shocking, wonder-filled exploration of our relationship with birds from earliest times delivers a sobering challenge to us living with birds today' <b>Isabella Tree, author of <i>Wilding</i></b><br/><br/>'A fascinating book about the close and often surprising relationship between birds and people, written by one of our leading ornithologists' <b>Stephen Moss</b></p>

Share some inner feline wisdom with twenty Catffirmations Notes. These twenty different notecards feature captivating illustrations of hidden cats accompanied by the inspiring affirmations of wise and witty kitties. Perfect for that "thinking of you" message, sending a heartfelt "thank you," or simply sharing a mindful mantra with the cat lovers in your life.

What would the world become like, if there were no hierarchy? This book begins with the acquaintance of a viscous pony. She taught the author, Emelie Cajsdotter, two things; that there is another way of communicating. But for that to be possible, one must first erase all differences in value. The author was eleven years old at that time, and ever since, she has been travelling around the world asking the same question. Is it necessary to use dominance in the handling of animals? And would it be possible for a human being to put a non-hierarchal principle into practice? Spending the last thirteen years with telepathic communication and alternative treatments of animals, she noticed that many animal owners were expressing a fear of their animals taking over. As if there was an inherent struggle for power, needing to be restraint. Curious to find out whether herd animals relate to the common image of a pecking order, she began studying semi-wild horses and dogs.

<p>The past, present, and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great cat lover. </p><p>"Engaging and wide-ranging ... The Cat's Meow is a readable and informed exploration of the wildcat that lurks within Fluffy." -The Washington Post</p><p>The domestic cat-your cat-has, from its evolutionary origins in Africa, been transformed in comparatively little time into one of the most successful and diverse species on the planet. Jonathan Losos, writing as both a scientist and a cat lover, explores how researchers today are unraveling the secrets of the cat, past and present, using all the tools of modern technology, from GPS tracking (you'd be amazed where those backyard cats roam) and genomics (what is your so-called Siamese cat . . . really?) to forensic archaeology. In addition to solving the mysteries of your cat's past, it gives us a cat's-eye view of today's habitats, including meeting wild cousins around the world whose habits your sweet house cat sometimes eerily parallels.</p><p>Do lions and tigers meow? If not, why not? Why does my cat leave a dead mouse at my feet (or on my pillow)? Is a pet ocelot a bad idea? When and why did the cat make its real leap off the African plain? What's with all those cats in Egyptian hieroglyphics? In a genial voice, casually deciphering complex science and history with many examples from his own research and multi-cat household, Losos explores how selection, both natural and artificial, over the last several millennia has shaped the contemporary cat, with new breeds vastly different in anatomy and behavior from their ancestral stock. Yet the cat, ever a predator, still seems only one paw out of the wild, and readily reverts to its feral ways as it occupies new lands around the world.</p><p>Humans are transforming cats, and they in turn are transforming the world around them. This charming and intelligent book suggests what the future may hold for both Felis catus and Homo sapiens. </p>