Good training book?

[HissyCat]

Hi all,

We have our name down for a cavalier puppy due to be born in 9 days (all being well). We are all crazy excited and are itching to get things ready. One of my concerns is training. I've raised and trained a German shepherd pup (no longer with us) 18 years ago and a golden retriever 10 years ago who lives with my mum. At the time a lot of the training methods particularly with the GS was all dominance pack theories, with the GR we did do some positive reinforcement with some of the pack/alpha theories but a read on here and other forums tells me this has now been disproved.

Are there any good reads out there on behaviour and training? The last dog book I read was back in 2007 by Cesar Milan... So I want to read something on current training methods.

Thank you.

The Perfect Puppy:
Gwen Bailey

Fantastic book and I have 2 very well behaved labs

For puppies, Life Skills for Puppies by Mills and Zulch is essential reading, great for teaching resilience and helping them cope with life and what it throws at them.

Training wise I love Pamela Dennison "Idiots Guide to Positive Dog Training".

Burn the Cesar Milan .........horrific training methods

Great Book is Life Skills for Puppies - Daniel Mills Best puppy book out there at the moment,- excellent modern training methods and ways to bring up a healthy happy well trained dog.

If your last reading was the dreaded Milan I would also read

Jean Donaldson Culture Clash
Don't shoot the Dog Karen Pryor

I bought Dog Training for Dummies once, left it on the coffee table. I swear it's the ONLY book that's ever been chewed in our house

I'm hopefully collecting our Cavalier puppy in Feb. I have been reading Gwen Baileys Perfect Puppy and various other books. I'm hoping to follow that to the letter as I have no experience with puppys at all. Good luck!!

Life Skills for Puppies definitely.

Thanks all, have ordered life skills and downloaded culture clash (super interesting read so far!!)

Total recall has chapters on starting recall conditioning when when still a young puppy, wish I'd read it before my 9 month old started ignoring me!