Proven ways to overcome performance anxiety Whether you're new to dog sports or an experienced dog handler, it's quite common to experience mild to severe performance anxiety during competition.
When Jon took on a troublesome two-year-old Border Collie in A Dog Year, it turned his sedate life upside down and culminated in a move from suburbia to a rural farm.
Presenting a new perspective on human animal relations in the ancient Near East, this volume considers how we should understand equids (horses, donkeys, onagers and various hybrids) as animals that are social actors.
Philippe Karl, einer der mutigsten Kritiker einer Dressurwelt, für die ein Pferd "Material" ist und deren Ausbildungsmethoden einzig darauf abzielen, ein Pferd möglichst schnell in mit hohen Preisgeldern dotierten Prüfungen an den Start zu bringen, legt mit diesem Buch den Finger in die Wunde.
';In more than 35 years of intense experience with dogs, and more than 20 years of that as a veterinarian, I have never met another domesticated dog that behaves like a Neapolitan Mastiff,' writes Dr.
Lassen wir Wiebke Haas einfach in über 220 ganz besonderen Fotografien von Pferden sprechen und vielleicht gelingt ein kleiner Einblick in die Seele dieser wundervollen Individuen.
In the ten years since this book was first published, the USEF, American horse sport's governing body, has revised and added rules and regulations that affect novice hunter-seat riders.
Voici un guide qui vous dit tout sur la psychologie de votre chien, sur ses instincts, mais aussi ses émotions, ses besoins alimentaires mais aussi ses humeurs, ses rythmes de sommeil mais aussi ses capacités cognitives.
A long-awaited update of the classic equine massage referenceFully revised and updated, this new edition provides step-by-step instructions and more than 180 photographs and diagrams to help riders and professionals alike master equine massage techniques.
Your German Shepherd Puppy Month by Month provides readers with everything they need to know and do at each stage of development to make sure their playful, energetic puppy grows into a happy, healthy, and well-adjusted companion.
Kevin De Ornellas argues that in Renaissance England the relationship between horse and rider works as an unambiguous symbol of domination by the strong over the weak.
Ernest Hemingway always had cats as companions, from the ones he adored as a child in Illinois and Michigan, to the more than 30 he had as an adult in Paris, Key West, Cuba, and Idaho.
Master horseman Buck Brannaman, the real-life Horse Whisperer, continues the chronicle of his life as trainer and mentor, as we meet thirteen remarkable people whose lives he has affected.
Discover the incredible psychic abilities of cats, dogs, horses, canaries, and more in this revelatory book from an expert of interspecies communication.
In the 15 years since the last Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources report on the general management of rodents was published, important advances in biomedical research and increased public awareness have created a new environment for animal research.
Al Dunning is a 30-year legend in Western riding competitions, and this, his first training book, is an invaluable self-help guide for riders of all levels.
The first modern scholarly synthesis of animal domesticationAcross the globe and at different times in the past millennia, the evolutionary history of domesticated animals has been greatly affected by the myriad, complex, and diverse interactions humans have had with the animals closest to them.
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