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Inspiration

Here is a list of some of my favorite dog training and behavior resources, in no particular order — blogs, books, trainers, and organizations.

Patricia McConnell – The Other End of the Leash and her books The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs, For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend, and The Education of Will: A Mutual Memoir of a Woman and Her Dog

Kathy Sdao and her book Plenty in Life is Free: Reflections on Dogs, Training, and Finding Grace

Karen Pryor and her book Don’t Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training

Leslie McDevitt and her book Control Unleashed: The Puppy Program (valuable for dogs of any age!)

Suzanne Clothier and her book Bones Would Rain from the Sky: Deepening our Relationships with Dogs

Jean Donaldson and her book The Culture Clash

Pat Miller and her book Do Over Dogs: Give Your Dog a Second Chance for a First Class Life

Steve White 

Jill Marie O’Brien

Cattle Dog Publishing – the Legacy of Dr. Sophia Yin

Companion Animal Psychology

Stacy Barnett and Scentsabilities Nosework

The Cognitive Canine: Innovative reward-based dog training by Sarah Stremming

Kathy Kawalec’s Cognitive Dog Training

Eileen and Dogs

The Association of Professional Dog Trainers (APDT)

Karen Pryor Academy (KPA)

National Association of Canine Scent Work (NACSW)

North American Dog Agility Council (NADAC)

Fenzi Dog Sports Academy (FDSA)

Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search-and-Rescue Dog by Susannah Charleson

What the Dog Knows: Scent, Science, and the Amazing Way Dogs Perceive the World by Cat Warren

Chaser: Unlocking the Genius of the Dog who Knows a Thousand Words by John W. Pilley

Do as I Do: Using Social Learning to Train Dogs by Claudia Fugazza