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Love Your Dog

by Will Tyler

Why choose Love Your Dog?
All of the training techniques are based on encouragement by means of understanding, body language and voice. Each method has been distilled from over 35 years of practical experience.

Intuitive Training: Embrace simple, natural techniques. Work with your dog, not against it. Delve into its perspective of the world.
Foundational Skills: Master day-to-day essentials like walking and communication, bonding, ensuring your dog's calmness around other creatures, and safety in water.
Recall: Roam freely and confidently with your dog. Say goodbye to recall anxieties!
Holistic Care: Dive deep into comprehensive wellbeing, from nutrition to emotional needs.
Pointing Dog Owners: Explore advanced training, trials, and hunting. Enter into high level experience in the wilder terrains of Wales and Scotland. There's a treasure trove of wisdom here for other dogs too.

The layout is clear and attractive with many action photographs in full colour. It is suited alike to those who have absolutely no knowledge of dogs and to those who wish to learn more. Your dog or dogs will change your life for ever and this book will help you love the process.

“All of the training techniques in this book are based on encouragement by means of understanding, body language and voice, and nothing else, as I have found these to be the most efficient way of learning.”

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“It is helpful to understand the welfare requirements of the dog. These can be divided into four parts: exercise, nutrition and health, stimulation, and emotional needs. From my experience, the following guidelines will help your dog to be happier and livelier, and for longer.”

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“For a good level of fitness and health, it is important that your dog is not overfed. The easiest way to check this is to feel your dog’s breast bones. They should be clearly defined with only a supple covering of skin and no fat.”

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“Separation can produce a lot of anxiety. A dog in the wild is part of a pack and it will spend most of its time with its pack leader. By choice, a dog will spend all of its time with you, the pack leader.”

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“At all times, you will need to think carefully about what you are going to do, why, and how you are going to do it. What does your dog want to do? What is your dog thinking and doing, and why?”

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“Give your dog instructions in a calm voice and without repetition (normally). Otherwise, your dog will learn to wait until you have finished your repetitions. Even worse, it may learn to enjoy winding you up.”

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“Dogs are aware of minute changes and signals. However, when it comes to making decisions their view of the world is more black and white and simple than ours. Therefore, make all instructions clear and simple.”

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“It all starts by playing games. Call your dog to you using its name and the instruction “come”, in either order. It will gradually learn both. You can also encourage it in many other ways, such as: squatting, opening your hands, or running away (dogs love to chase).”

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“Pointing dogs have two defining characteristics. One is the desire and ability to range wide and cover a large area, scenting for prey all the time; the other is to quickly point the prey found, remaining
rigid and transfixing it until the gun arrives.”

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“You must expect your dog to make mistakes because that is a natural and important way of learning and gaining confidence. Also, allowing your dog to think independently will mean that it will enjoy
every challenge that comes its way.”

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“They will naturally fall into, or develop, a quartering pattern where the dog ranges from side to side in front of you, gradually moving forward into the wind. This way they maximise their chance of
finding their quarry over a large area. You will make use of this natural behaviour and learn to understand and help your dog so that you can work together as a team.”

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“First, you need to find a big open area that is safe and will allow you to go into the wind for a fairly long way. The vegetation should not be more than about half the height of your dog’s nose but enough to give some cover to any game.”

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All dog handlers should read this book. Then read it again. Think about it and, after a week or so, read it yet again.

D Winser QPM. Llb.

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…. it is an excellent work which captures the essential elements of handler/dog relationships that most publications overlook and of which erstwhile handlers remain blissfully unaware – the fact that we are a self-reliant team with our dogs, each having distinct and important roles that are welded together by love, trust and a total understanding, which works both ways.

D Winser QPM. Llb.

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Will Tyler’s Love Your Dog is an interesting and rewarding book. Its particular value is that it’s so evidently based on Will’s personal experience of living with dogs …

Richard E Godric PhD

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Love your Dog is a very detailed account of Will’s knowledge and expertise as a dog owner, carer and trainer. It is a tour de force that he’s been able to learn from, recall and write down so much about his experience.

Sheila Kuban, President of the German Shorthaired Pointer Club

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I hope all handlers had a chance to see this dog demonstrate exactly what is required to work partridge ground of this type. … the handler was commendably quiet, simply making sure the dog missed nothing and did his job. A brilliant piece of work.

P J Pickstone, A- Panel Field Trial Judge

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With Love Your Dog, Will has created a progressive and original book which outlines a fantastically animal-focused approached to being with dogs and getting the most (for both dog and handler) out of the relationship.

James Willis BA(Hons), dog owner

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The fascination in our dogs’ abilities never cease to delight and amaze us, and in the working gundog world there is always something new to be learnt from the experiences of others.

Sylvia Marshall, dog breeder, handler and trainer, ex-President of the Hungarian Vizsla Society

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It was difficult to believe that this dog is 10 years old, as there was no indication of age or lack of soundness in his ability to quarter and hunt at pace! Eventually, his work was rewarded with a find and staunch point on a single partridge, producing it and remaining steady to the flush.

Stevie Allerton, A- Panel Field Trial Judge

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…. as a base for success, remember that good teamwork is a contract of mutual trust, clear communication, understanding, love and respect – in equal proportions.

D Winser QPM. Llb.

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Sadly, most handlers feel they can achieve the best results by exercising total control, completely overlooking the fact that dogs cannot shoot, and neither can handlers find sparsely spread wild game in difficult terrain.

D Winser QPM. Llb.

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For those looking for a canine companion, it gives a thorough grounding in how to look after your dog, caring for its physical and emotional needs.

Richard E Godric PhD

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It certainly is a book in which, I feel, both new and existing dog owners can’t fail to find much useful advice. Above all its emphasis on forging a good understanding of, and relationship with a dog, whether it be a pet or a working dog, is all important.

Sheila Kuban, President of the German Shorthaired Pointer Club

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More importantly, he put a great deal of effort into giving his dogs the life experiences their type and breeding called for and what he feels they deserved.

Sheila Kuban, President of the German Shorthaired Pointer Club

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Superb ground treatment, absolutely metronomic, fast but thorough … instantly indicated … moved in with circumspection and care, found, pointed, produced partridges.

P J Pickstone, A- Panel Field Trial Judge

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Moving away from punishment and ‘owner’ expectations into a much more holistic and reciprocal relationship, Will explores ethical ways to harness your dog's natural abilities and personality to create a more meaningful bond.

James Willis BA(Hons), dog owner

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The empathy that the author has with his dogs over a lifetime of living with, and observing their body language, will be obvious to the reader throughout the book.

Sylvia Marshall, dog breeder, handler and trainer, ex-President of the Hungarian Vizsla Society

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You are a self-taught handler who has watched your dogs, listened to others and carefully chosen what you believe to be the best path for your team.

D Winser QPM. Llb.

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A self-taught handler should be the proudest of them all, and Will is a person who has observed what is there to be seen and used his common sense to analyse situations rather than be led by others; who are often wrong.

D Winser QPM. Llb.

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And it gives a fascinating insight into how the world is seen by dogs. There’s very helpful advice on training and welfare. And the book is illustrated with lovely photos of Will and his dogs.

Richard E Godric PhD

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His extensive experience over many decades is evident and brings much-needed content and authority. His passion for dogs and their well-being also means that any reader will find this book uplifting as well as a goldmine of brilliant insight.

James Willis BA(Hons), dog owner

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A refreshing angle on each step of training, as well as a guide to owners of how to achieve an harmonious partnership with whatever breed they wish to share their life with.

Sylvia Marshall, dog breeder, handler and trainer, ex-President of the Hungarian Vizsla Society

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Most people read something and little of it sinks in. Their brains con them into thinking they know it all. In fact, carefully chosen words convey very important messages to aid understanding and the simplest of words deceive one into moving on too quickly. If something contains the most important of information then it should be read, then read again – put away and then read yet again sometime later. That way one learns.

D Winser QPM. Llb.

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Will went on to make a very good job of training Ben and the dogs that followed him. In trials, his efforts were rewarded with some of the highest awards.

Sheila Kuban, President of the German Shorthaired Pointer Club

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Will Tyler

Will bought his first dog as simply a companion, but it turned out to be the start of a long passion. He learnt about dogs in their various roles and how they reacted to him and the world around. He is deeply interested in the subtle skills of communication; how dogs think; how they are motivated; and their physical and mental well-being.

Away from dogs, he is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and ran his own company for 30 years.

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