Change for your Growly Dog!: Action steps to build confidence in your fearful, aggressive, or reactive dog
About this ebook
As she screams, barks, and lunges at other dogs and people?
Stop the cycle now, with professional force-free dog trainer Beverley Courtney’s life-changing series of books for Growly Dogs.
You know your dog has a lovely personality. She’s smashing at home - loves playing with the children, does what you ask, settles quietly when you’re busy. But outside ... or perhaps when visitors come ... you have a different dog. The ruckus she makes when confronted with a strange person, a strange dog, even a strange bag, is upsetting for you and frightening for everyone else. She ducks and dives, lunges and surges, barks, snarls, and growls: who wouldn’t be alarmed?
👉 In Book 1 you saw what is happening, why it’s happening, why it’s getting worse, and what you can change to begin the transformation you’re looking for - so people can stop seeing your dog as reactive, anxious, fearful, aggressive, and admire the friendly dog you know and love!
👉 Now Book 2 goes into far greater detail to give you strategies and techniques to avoid trouble (and if necessary to get you out of it!). These strategies will enable you to change your mindset, and then change your dog’s mindset. If she’s to change, then you have to change too!
But nowhere does Beverley tell you it’s your fault, or your dog’s fault. Blaming is totally unproductive. You need to start where you are, with what you’ve got, and move forward from there.
“This life-changing book is a MUST READ.” 5* review
Beverley takes you by the hand and holds on to it firmly while you move forward in a cheerily positive state of mind! She gives you the missing parts of the puzzle - all force-free and dog-friendly - and you’ll be able to see why harsher methods recommended to you in the past have not worked.
Get going with Book 2 in this series today!
About the author
Beverley Courtney has two strings to her bow! First, she is the author of the popular Brilliant Family Dog series of step-by-step, force-free dog training books.
And she is now emerging as a serious novelist, with her Literary Fiction novels "Keeping Tabs" and "Seeking Clarity", dealing with issues that so many women experience.
Beverley has lived with dogs all her life. She qualified her Battersea Dogs’ Home rescue Poppy as a Working Trials Champion - and has enjoyed herself hugely for many years helping new owners with their dogs and puppies through her books, classes, and online courses.
Using the latest scientific breakthroughs in dog behaviour, with a no-force / no-blame / no-shame approach, she is dedicated to improving communication between owner and dog. Once you jettison the idea that it’s a one-way process (“I said SIT”) and start understanding how your dog learns, training becomes a breeze.
Her fresh approach has helped hundreds of families discover the joy of choice-based training. The first four books address the four Essential Skills for a Brilliant Family Dog (yes! there are just four!), featuring one of her students’ favourite skills - getting their frantic puppy to relax!
Beverley’s next three books address the tricky problem many dog-owners experience - of having a dog who barks and reacts to other dogs. Or people. Or bikes … Drawing on her own experience with her Growly Dog Lacy, together with extensive study, she brings the gentle and humorous approach that her readers love. There is no blame or shame here - just empathy, understanding, and masses of how-to’s to get you enjoying your walks with your dog again.
Get yourself a really useful dog, by mastering the retrieve with Fetch It!, so that after an enjoyable walk playing ball or frisbee, she can fetch your slippers and the tv remote for you!
And new puppy-owners, so often lost and at sea in this new world, can get things right from the start. New Puppy! will remove the frustration and guide you to build an unbreakable bond with your pup.
Connect with me! I love hearing from readers ...
www.brilliantfamilydog.com for force-free dog training
www.beverleycourtney.com for everything else!
