Essential Skills for your Growly but Brilliant Family Dog: Books 1-3: Understanding your fearful, reactive, or aggressive dog, and strategies and techniques to make change
Are your dog walks a nightmare?
Lunging, barking, pulling you over, and putting on an astonishing display of aggression?
You love your dog, who’s a perfect peach at home, so why on earth is she doing this?
Using entirely force-free proven methods, developed through extensive study and working with thousands of dog-owners - and a very readable, jargon-free approach touched with humour! - Beverley Courtney takes you step-by-step through the process of understanding, of change, and finally teaches you solid techniques to move you forward.
In this series of three books for anxious, fearful, aggressive, or reactive dogs, you have everything you need to build confidence in both you and your dog, so that you can say goodbye to those distressing scenes when your dog barks, screams, and lunges at everything she sees. No longer will you be subjected to the scorn of other dog-owners! You’ll learn why your dog is acting as she does, and with understanding comes patience and empathy.
👉 Book 1 in this series Essential Skills for your Growly but Brilliant Family Dog will bring you lots of “Aha!” moments as your dog’s complex thoughts are revealed to you. It’s essential to understand what’s going on before you can make any changes. It will also explain a lot of other things your dog does, and why. And key to all this is what you bring to the partnership!
👉 Book 2 goes into the detail of what you’re going to change and how, what approaches will work best, and what you need to make it all work. Lots of Lessons in this book. And much of this will involve change for you: exciting!
👉 Finally, Book 3 gets you out there with your dog, enjoying a new way of walking and interacting with her, and making the scenes you’ve endured before, mercifully, a thing of the past. Lots more Lessons here, and Troubleshooting sections to cover all the “what ifs” you’ll come up with for your individual dog.
“Simply makes you a better person and your dog a better dog” 5* reviewer
“Your introduction made me cry as I felt you really understood how I feel. I feel like you help the reader to believe in themselves and their dogs.” CS
Don’t wait another moment before starting to change walks with your dog - for good! Buy this set today.
The book includes:
What you need to know about how dogs learn
Why force-free training is MORE effective and enduring than using punishment and nasty gadgets
How to teach your dog, step-by-step!
Lessons, Watchpoints, and Troubleshooting for when you need a bit of help!
Plus links to lots of useful resources
Reviews
“I’ve read and re-read your books and they have helped me understand my dog’s fears and my shortcomings. He’s far more relaxed and has more confidence in me. Thanks for what you do.” PT
“Just wanted to let you know, as a professional dog trainer, I loved your three Growly Dog books. Have recommended to all my reactive owners as you explain so simply and clearly what they need to learn, without baffling them with science. Just brilliant. I read a lot of books, articles and papers but rarely are they appropriate for pet owners to read and understand so these are just perfect.” GS
“I love your 'Here is where you are now, and this is where I am going to hold your hand and take you to' style. I find that easy and inviting to follow. The fact you share your personal experiences of the embarrassment we all feel, makes me feel better! and that this book is meant for me and my dog, not talking down to me, we are doing this together. An easy reading format which I understood and liked. I liked the tone of the advice, that although we have growly dogs, there is no blame apportioned, neither for dog or owner, a straightforward “start from here and now” attitude, again I think appealing to the ordinary person with an ordinary family dog, who has no great ambitions other than to enjoy the simple pleasure of having a dog.” JS
“I have just bought your three Growly Dog books, and am thoroughly enjoying them. Very easy to read - in fact I have been staying awake at night unable to put the book down! I really like your style and ethos, and the way you teach with very clear and memorable principles.” AC
“I've already learned so much and me and my growly (more like insane wailing banshee) dog are doing so much better already! I love your writing style and this book is so relatable that it makes me feel less alone; thank you so much.” AJ
“I’m excited to say we have seen some improvements already. We are confident now he will have a much better life thanks to your Brilliant Family Dog books. Thank you so much.” JR
“Lemmy has come a really long way in just a few weeks! Your book has been a great help! We still have a long way to go but we are having more good walks than difficult ones now. We owe you a big thank you!” MN
“I am currently working with a behaviourist but your books have taught me the most valuable lessons so far. The little things have made a huge difference in my dog’s confidence. You're amazing and thank you!” MF
“We have been using your approach to training our growly dog now for about 6 months and have seen an incredible difference! We love your kind approach to training our dog. Wow! Your kind, positive methods really work. I can't thank you enough.” EB
“I had stopped sleeping and became a bit growly myself! Then, by chance I saw a reference to your Growly Dog books, bought and read them and finally I could see some hope for getting us both to a happy place. It's still early days but we are making serious progress. So, in summary, THANK YOU for the books. The tone is great, not laying blame, focussed on the positive. I feel better about life and I'm pretty sure Bertie does too. We still have a long way to go but you've given us the language and ideas to work with. Now I can see us 'getting there' whereas before I'd been starting to wonder why I had been so keen to have a dog.” JL
“Just wanted to give you a big thank you! After nearly 2 years of training my leash reactive dog, Flash, and making some good progress we'd hit a bit of a wall. So I signed up to your free e-course and after loving the advice and the clear step by step approach I received there, I purchased your Essential Skills for your Growly but Brilliant Family Dog. It was one of the best decisions I've made. Unlike a lot of other books, the necessary information was there without being too overwhelming. It was written in a way that was easy to follow while being encouraging and achievable. Not only did it give me some new techniques but the troubleshooting section was very informative and most helpful. Your books have given me the confidence and newfound skills to overcome the final few hurdles with Flash, so he can be confident and calm around other dogs when out on our walks. I truly am so very thankful and cannot recommend you and your books enough.” SH
“I appreciate your holistic, approachable, and non-judgmental writing/teaching style, and your sense of humor is fabulous and keeps me smiling - your humor is very much needed and is very uplifting! Thank you so much for all you do for on behalf of our beloved animals, and the bewildered people who love them.” LA