Terry Ryan - Coaching People to Train Their Dogs. (2nd Edition)
This nearly 400 page book covers everything a dog trainer would want to know, in great detail — the Table of Contents alone runs nine pages!
To give you the idea, here are the chapter headings in that long Table of Contents:
- Overview
- Ethology
- The Science of Learning
- Husbandry (Health and Wellness Information; Training Equipment)
- The Business
- People Skills
- Class Organization
- A Toolbox for Remodeling Problem Behavior
- Appendix
- Index
To give you more of the flavour, here are the first dozen subheadings under Ethology: Comparing dogs with humans, our dog’s ancestors, early relationships – speculations, an example of purposeful domestication using selective breeding, comparing dogs with wolves, wolf-dog hybrids, behavior: why do dogs do that?, phylogenetic behavior, fixed action patterns, ontogenetic behavior, temperament — nature and nurture, and instinctive drift — the Breland Effect.