About this item
Whether your dog is a Snoopy or an Air Bud, this is your go-to guide for training them.Have you ever gone to the park and gazed enviously as the nearby yellow lab obediently followed his owner's commands? Have you endured the keen sting of public embarrassment as your Chihuahua deemed it appropriate to mark a stranger's leg? Or perhaps your dog is completely housetrained, but you're hoping to take it to the next level with some competition-worthy talents. If you nodded at any of the above, this book is for you. Written by professional dog-training instructor Tammie Rogers, Dog Training & Tricks (previously 4-H Guide to Dog Training & Dog Tricks) is a fully illustrated, easy-to-follow guide for teaching your dog everything he needs to know from how to sit down to how to turn off the lights.
About the Author
Tammie Rogers was born in McHenry, Illinois in 1960 to John and Carol Johnson. She is the middle child of three girls. In 1978, as a foreign exchange student with American Field Service, she traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa where she resided with an Afrikaans family and attended an Afrikaans high school for one year. During her education at Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA, she spent a semester in Costa Rica where she studied Emerald Toucanets in the rainforest of Monte Verde. A biologist by profession, in 2002 Tammie left a 20 year career in the biomedical field to devote attention to her passion of training dogs and their people; a diversion she began as a hobby after graduating college in 1982. She learned about livestock herding with her first Border Collie, a dog named Shamaron, with which she acquired High In Trial honors in different herding trial venues. She is a herding trial judge with the American Herding Breeds Association and raises and trains working Border Collies. Tammie and her husband Robert live on a working sheep ranch in Brownstown, Illinois where they raise Dorper-cross sheep. They also own and operate DarnFar Ranch, a full service dog training facility specializing in rehabilitation of aggressive and anti-social dogs. Tammie's website, www.DARNFAR.com, contains many examples of her writing in articles on dog training that can be found there. She is also published in several journals, including the American Kennel Club Gazette, The Ranch Dog Trainer, Borderlines and Working Border Collie Magazine.
