Here is the list put out by my dogobedience yahoogroup. It has some good ones, and then "don't waste your time one"... Some of the titles might be repeats, oh well.
I added a couple of titles, too. And * means that the book is super great.
Play Training Your Dog by Patricia Gail Burnham
The Inner Game of Tennis by W Timothy Gallwey (for competition nerves, I'm thinking)
Beyond Basic Dog Training-Bauman *
Successful obedience handling-Handler *
Most books by Volhard *
Obedience Judging:-Oxandale *
Koheler books
Bernie Browns Novice and Open books
Terri Arnolds set of 3...after you put a second mortgage on your house....lol *
Lana Mitchells, The Clicked Retriever for clicker fans (I have this, and am not impressed with it at all - a total waste of money, though for some people it works)
Shirley Chongs pages of clicker training on the net and by all means get;
Dr. Chris Zinks....Coaching the Canine Athlete and Jumping A to Z *
How to Raise a Puppy You Can Live With.....Rutherford
Dog Listener...Jan Fennell
Beyond Obedience...April Frost
Positively Fetching by Judy Byron and Adele Yunck* (
Competition Obedience: A Balancing Act by Judy Byron and Adele Yunck *
The Art of proofing - by Adele Yunk *
'Building Blocks for Performance'. Bobbie Anderson's *
The Power of Positive Training by Pat Miller
Ring Wise and Ring Ready by Marie Sawford
COMPETITIVE OBEDIENCE TRAINING FOR THE SMALL DOG
by Barbara Cecil & Gerianne Darnell ** (you can apply lots of this to big dogs!)
And on training "non-traditional obedience" breeds:
SO YOUR DOG'S NOT LASSIE
by Betty Fisher & Suzanne Delzio *
Dog Training with the Touch* by Tom Rose & Annetta L. Cheek
(
www.tomrose.com) covers some AKC and UKC exericses, although it's
mainly a SchH book.
Fido, Come!": Training Your Dog with Love & Understanding* by
Liz Palika ((
www.lizpalika.com) is, alas, out of print, but if you can
find a copy, it covers UKC as well as AKC exercises.
A classic of dog training:, Patricia Gail Burnham's
Yunck and Byron's, Competition Obedience
Winnifred Strickladnd, (yep the first training book I ever owned and still
useful)Expert Obedience Training for Dogs (this was one of the first books I ever got when I started, and you can learn from her!)
Amy Ammen's, Dual Ring Dog
That Winning Feeling by Jane Savoie
With Winning in Mind by Lanny Bassham
Janet Lewis' Smart Trainers, Brilliant Dogs (excellent book) *
Judie Howard's booklet on retrieve, jumping (I wish she would write a
complete book on training she's excellent) *
Terri Arnold's, Steppin Up series *
Culture Clash by Jean Donaldson *
On Talking Terms With Dogs: Calming Signals by Turid Rugaas
Dildai's, Training in Drive
Playtraining Your Dog* which, I'm told, was written as a kind of antidote to Koehler.
Schutzhund Obedience: Training in Drive* by Sheila Booth &
Gottfried Dildei is very good on inducive training. Don't let the
title scare you -- it doesn't cover "bitework." This is a classic of
inducive training, written before Booth got the "pure positive" religion. (this one is great, much better than her other one she wrote later)
Brian McGovern's *Competitive Obedience for Winners* has excellent
instructions on attention training and footwork by one of the leading
European handlers. Again, some of the exercises are going to be a
little different, because McGovern trains and shows in Europe.
Schutzhund Obedience--Training in Drive-Gottfried Dildei
Stop! Sit! and Think-Charles P. Eisenmann
Don't waste your time on Spector's, "Clicker training for obedience" i - t has little helpful information, no proofing or problem solving, and the man has only put three CDXs (two of them weren't even clicker CDXs) and nothing ever higher, and he claims his book will get you to an OTCH! HAH!! Hah, big claims for someone who's never put UD on a dog yet.
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The do not buy list:
*The Dog Listener by Jan Fennell
Dog Whisperer, Paul Owens
the tao of bow wow-unknown auther
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Videos:
Bauman video's
OBEDIENCE WITHOUT CONFLICT -Ivan Balabanovs
Connie Cleveland's video package
Jan DeMello's tape on articles(around the clock methood)
Anne Marie Silvertons tapes-awesome in my book-I have 4 of
them-attention to Utility
Attention heeling-Terri Arnold
Gottfried Dildei videos, some of Joanne Plumbs, and most definitely, the two by Ivan Balabanov. These (like
Dildei and Plumb) are chiefly for SchH obedience, but Balabanov, of
course, is famous for his high scores and precision in the obedience
phase of SchH. Much of what he says is quite applicable to AKC obedinece.
Barbara Handler's *Successful Obedience Handling: The New Best Foot
Forward*
