How to Raise a Happy Dog: So they love you (more than anyone else) [Hardcover]

How to Raise a Happy Dogfocuses on the happiness to be found in the person/pet relationship and includes dozens of ideas for activities and hacks you can build into daily life with your pet, from spontaneous play and activities to making them the perfect sleep spot.

We know how important happiness is for ourselves but when it comes to pets,making sure they’re happy– as opposed to obedient, say – isoften underrated. Yet there’s plenty of fresh science that shows thata happy, engaged pet is easy to live with and creates happiness in its owners, too.

How to Raise a Happy Dogshowswhat you can learn from your pet’s behaviourand body language, offer a mass ofpractical ways to raise your pet’s happiness levels, and show you how toconnect with themin the way they’ll love best.

Building on recent scientific developments into animal behavioural science, this book's methods aim toincrease inter-species understandingand encouraging the behaviour you do want, while discouraging the behaviour you don’t.

Divided into 6 chapters, each of which contains plenty ofeasy-to-follow activitieswhich owners can carry out themselves, this book will become an invaluable resource for building andstrengthening the bond between human and dog.

Sections include:

• How you canget to know your dog better; 


• How to develop happiness in different areas, fromexercisingtoplaying; 


• A guide to different stages in a dog’s life and athow to tailor activities to a puppy or to an ageing dog.


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Perfect for dog owners who want to get toknow their canine friends as individuals, this indispensible book offers a new angle that gives owners lots ofcustomized ideas for having fun with their pelãB