This is a very nice book for dog owners who want something a little more than boilerplate instructions on how to teach a sit, although I’m not quite sure it accomplishes its stated goal of teaching people how to train more complicated concepts. I keep finding that owners need a lot of hand holding to learn how to generalize training concepts.

At any rate, that’s a gripe with people, not with the book, which is lovely. A couple of new ways to teach things in there (I go round and round on how to teach leave it, I need some new puppies to trial on) but mostly I read it to be able to recommend it–which I can! This won’t have anything very new for most professional trainers but if you’re not that, it’s worth your time.