51 Puppy Tricks: Step-by-Step Activities to Engage, Challenge, and Bond with Your Puppy (Volume 3) (Dog Tricks and Training, 3)

51 Puppy tricks is a very good book. It goes through very simple motions for training your puppy some really cool, but simple, tricks! It is chock full of colorful pictures and step-by-step instructions on how to train your puppy. It shows where and when to use the clicker, hand signals to use, and what word commands to use. I would suggest this book for anyone who has a puppy that they want to start training. This is a great way to bond with your puppy and give him a head start. It is simple tricks, taught in simple ways for your puppy to be able to understand better. It is laid out in such a simple way that even a child could train their puppy. However, if you have an older dog, I would suggest 101 dog tricks for him. 101 Dog Tricks is more advanced training for a dog, not a puppy. It is a very good book as well. I would recommend them both if you really want to start training from puppy-hood to adult dog-hood. Both are very easy for the trainer to understand and read. I have personally enjoyed them, as well as my sister who is a more advanced dog trainer. 51 Puppy tricks has a lot of great tips in it on training puppies for the experienced and in-experienced trainer alike! 51 puppy tricks is specifically for puppy training. I would recommend it to starters and advanced people alike! It is a great way to start your puppy out right in a really fun way!

I bought this book for myself when we got our new puppy in August 2010. I've loved it and my puppy loves learning the tricks :) We have a couple of Kyra Sundance's other books as well, but this one is great for puppies. Some of the tricks are "beginner level" tricks, such as teaching them to walk across a board but not actually doing a teeter-totter since puppies shouldn't be doing a full teeter-totter yet. I liked it so much I bought a copy for my 12 year old cousin when she got a new puppy too. You will need a clicker and small, soft treats for training.

I bought this to engage my puppy with learning tricks to keep her out of trouble. This book has great instructions and nice step by step pictures. Wish it had more elementary type tricks. Getting my puppy to clean up her toys and get in a box is not happening. But some of the tricks are pretty neat. Giving this four stars because I think this should come with a clicker since most of the tricks require the use of a clicker. Overall, would recommend.

Love! These books! Super simple to follow, the pictures and steps make it easy to understand how to get your pet to achieve the trick. Taught my 3month old puppy the concept of stay after just an afternoon. When she was 4 months we learned how to turn around and shake. We are working on staying on her raised spot and why it is important. Not only are the tricks fun to learn but they are building an understanding of who is in charge and how to learn, for both of us.

Wonderful! Not just for pups, but for all your doggys! Great, easy to follow step by step instructions WITH step by step color PHOTOS to show you each task and/or trick taught in this book. A very very low price for all you get. I will use it even teach my service dog some useful tasks that I need help with. Oh... and a few to impress the friends! Kids and adults could use this book to work with their doggys. Great for clicker training, giving hand signals... they've included it all in this book. I am soooooo glad I got this helpful book!

I'll preface this review by saying the fact that I can compare this book to several other puppy/dog training books probably says a lot about me (aka perhaps I should get a life ;). All in all, I found this book helpful -- fun to look through, lots of pictures. It's a nice thing to pick up while you're watching t.v. or taking a pee. That said, there's not that much too it. Most of the content is pretty standard in any puppy class (sit, down, stay, lure, etc). Some of the tricks are neat, and I don't think I'd have found them elsewhere unless I was looking (crawl, hide your eyes). Some of the tricks are things I'm not sure I want to teach my puppy (open the cabinet), but that's personal preference I guess :). That said, there's really not enough content to warrant the price tag, in my opinion. Pictures are nice, but for my dollar, if you want to learn how to train your pup I'd opt for either: A) The books that every dog trainer tells you to read: -Jean Donaldson's Culture Clash, -Patricial McConnel's The Other End of the Leash, -Karen Pryor's Don't Shoot the Dog OR B) Some cliff's notes version of those books (e.g. Imagine Life with a Well-Behaved Dog)

This is a great book but by the time I received it I had already taught my puppy most of the tricks. It has great advice about how to shape a behavior so that was helpful. The instructions for the tricks are very clear and simple. There are color photographs reinforcing how to do the tricks. I would recommend this book for novices in dog training.

I love this book!! My puppy eats his food VERY fast, so for dinner I get him to slow down by making him learn tricks from this book for his food. Everyone is so impressed with how many tricks he knows at such a young age. Typically he can pick up on a new trick in just 1 evening, and then we work on reviewing other tricks he learned previously. This book makes it very easy to teach tricks and to use the "clicker" method. I've found that by making this part of our routine he is eager to learn and listen to me.

Great book hours of fun for you and your pooch

Very easy to understand

I bought this book looking for some ideas for fun tricks to teach our puppy, beyond the standards that I already knew. This book has some interesting tricks, but requires a lot of props or special equipment. For example, open a door, close a door and retrieve a soda from the fridge constitute 3 tricks, but what if I don't have a fridge door that a dog can open?! Similarly other tricks require mailboxes, small basketbalp hoops, skateboards, toyboxes that open, etc. This book does have some info on clicker training, shaping and chaining for those inexperienced with this type of training, but it feels too superficial for someone with experience in dog training, and yet too basic for a total novice. Lots of cute picures, but even the little "doggie commentaries" are too cutesie and get annoying after a few pages. In general, this book looks pretty but doesn't feel like it offers much useful substance when you really look at it.

Good book, easy to read and easy to understand. It doesn't waste words into explaining too much, a couple of sentences and pictures, which is all you really need. It's giving us a lot of fun moments with our puppy!

Eine gute Mischung aus praktischen und lustigen Tricks und Alltagsfähigkeiten, sehr gut beschrieben und mit lustigen Bildern und "Kommentaren" der Hunde versehen.