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Team Dog

How to Train Your Dog—the Navy SEAL Way

by Mike Ritland
Gary Brozek
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Dog owners can experience the close relationship and exceptional training of combat dogs with this New York Times bestselling dog training book from a former Navy SEAL.
 
In Team Dog, Ritland taps into fifteen years’ worth of experience and shares, explaining in accessible and direct language, the science behind the importance of gaining a dog’s trust and then offering invaluable steps for how to achieve any level of obedience. His unique approach uses entertaining examples and anecdotes from his work with dogs on and off the battlefield and direct tips from the Navy SEAL guidebook to teach dog owners how to: choose the perfect dog for their household, establish themselves as the “team leader,” master “command and control,” employ “situational awareness,” and to solidify their dog’s position as the family’s ultimate best friend.
 
Team Dog introduces pet owners everywhere to the new and distinctive authority on how to train your dog...the Navy SEAL way.

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  • Release date

    January 29, 2015

  • Formats

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      • ISBN: 9780698160644

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      • ISBN: 9780698160644
      • File size: 11601 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      September 15, 2014

      After 12 years as a U.S. Navy SEAL, Ritland quit to found his own company to train dogs for SEAL teams, as chronicled in the New York Times best seller Trident K9 Warriors. Here he extends his techniques to the family dog.

      Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Library Journal

      February 15, 2015

      The Navy SEAL brand expands: add canine instruction to the fiction, diet, and workout books. Ritland, former SEAL team member, military working dog trainer, and, lately, best-selling author (Trident K9 Warriors), shares his force-free methods. He stresses how owners should carry themselves and writes convincingly of the importance of body language in the human-dog relationship. Included are chapters on canine perception, choice of the right animal, care and maintenance, and solutions to problem behaviors. The training (with clicker) section is relatively brief. Writing in the way of a commando, Ritland gets in and out quickly, an approach that has benefits and drawbacks. On the one hand, his no-nonsense style may embolden timid owners to become leaders their dogs will respect and heed. On the other, Ritland's rush--he provides "quick" charts and summaries, he's wary of getting "bogged down in too many details," and declines to offer a bibliography, noting that "plenty of resources are available online or at your bookstore"--seems to contradict a central SEAL tenet: mastering the details. VERDICT The dog-training shelf is becoming crowded with differing philosophies, but this title offers a distinct angle, the "command and control" some owners might be seeking. [See Prepub Alert, 8/18/14.]--Robert Eagan, Windsor P.L., Ont.

      Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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