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Animal Training Books

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Training Mules & Donkeys: Foal Training (DVD: Video #1)
by: Meredith Hodges
DVD: Pertaining to Mules. Differences between a horse & mule, undestanding your mule foal, handling, haltering, tying, leading, showmanship, trailer loading. Includes an electronic version (PDF file) of the corresponding Workbook, for viewing and printing from your computer.
c. 1998, DVD 45 Min... $39.95


Training Mules & Donkeys: Preparing For Performance: Ground Work (VHS: Tape #2)
by: Meredith Hodges
Video Tape & Workbook: Pertaining to Mules. Safety basics, preventing & correcting bad habits, working with the yearling, restraint methods, intrducing sheets & blankets, first saddling, lunging & ground driving.
c. 1997, VHS 45 Min... $39.95
VHS Out-Of-Print, Available Only While Supply Lasts


Training Mules & Donkeys: Preparing For Performance: Ground Work (DVD: Video #2)
by: Meredith Hodges
DVD: Pertaining to Mules. Covers safety basics, preventing and correcting bad habits, tack and training aids, restraint methods, introducing sheets and blankets, first saddling, lunging and ground driving. Includes an electronic version (PDF file) of the corresponding Workbook, for viewing and printing from your computer.
c. 1997, DVD 45 Min... $39.95


Training Mules & Donkeys: Preparing For Performance: Driving (DVD: Video #3)
by: Meredith Hodges
DVD: Covers an overview of equipment and proper fit for the harness, verbal commands, carts and carriages, pre-hitch training with an assistant, hitching to a training vehicle, reinsmanship, pleasure and obstacle driving, and working with teams. Includes an electronic version (PDF file) of the corresponding Workbook, for viewing and printing from your computer.
c. 1997, DVD 40 Min... $39.95


Training Mules & Donkeys: Basic Foundation For Saddle (VHS: Tape #4)
by: Meredith Hodges
Video Tape & Workbook: Pertaining to Mules. Mounting, riding with & without an assistant, correct horsemanship, patterns at a walk & trot, the canter or lope, leads, seat & leg cues, more complex patterns & obstacles. Also sections on grooming & hoof care.
c.1997, VHS 40 Min...$39.95
VHS Out-Of-Print, Available Only While Supply Lasts


Training Mules & Donkeys: Basic Foundation For Saddle (DVD: Video #4)
by: Meredith Hodges
DVD: Pertaining to Mules. Covers mounting, riding with and without an assistant, correct horsemanship, patterns at a walk and trot, the canter or lope, leads, seat and leg cues, more complex patterns and obstacles. Also includes sections on grooming and hoof care. Includes an electronic version (PDF file) of the corresponding Workbook, for viewing and printing from your computer.
c.1997, DVD 40 Min...$39.95


Training Mules & Donkeys: Intermediate Saddle Training (VHS: Tape #5)
by: Meredith Hodges
Video Tape & Workbook: Pertaining to Mules. Fine tuning the rider: equitation, equitation on a lunge line, riding a broke and a green animal without stirrups or reins, collection, bending & lateral work. Covers training tips for Western & English pleasure classes, simple lead changes & trail classes. Includes preparation for the show ring, fitting & grooming.
c. 1997, VHS 40 Min... $39.95
VHS Out-Of-Print, Available Only While Supply Lasts


Training Mules & Donkeys: Intermediate Saddle Training (DVD: Video #5)
by: Meredith Hodges
DVD: Pertaining to Mules. For fine tuning the rider: Covers equitation, equitation on the lunge line, riding a broke and a green animal without stirrups or reins, collection, bending, lateral work and simple lead changes. Also covers training tips for Western and English pleasure and trail classes. Includes preparation for the show ring, fitting and grooming. Includes an electronic version (PDF file) of the corresponding Workbook, for viewing and printing from your computer.
c. 1997, DVD 40 Min... $39.95


Training Mules & Donkeys: Advanced Saddle Training (VHS: Tape #6)
by: Meredith Hodges
Video Tape & Workbook: Pertaining to Mules. Introduces the curb bit & emphasizes the use of Dressage as a basis for all equine sports. With this foundation undertaken is Second Level Dressage, Reining, Western Riding, Trail & Preliminary Jumping.
c. 1997, VHS 50 Min... $39.95
VHS Out-Of-Print, Available Only While Supply Lasts


Training Mules & Donkeys: Advanced Saddle Training (DVD: Video #6)
by: Meredith Hodges
DVD: Pertaining to Mules. Introduces the curb bit and emphasizes the use of Dressage as a basis for all equine sports. With this foundation we undertake Second Level Dressage, Reining, Western Riding, Trail and Preliminary Jumping. Includes an electronic version (PDF file) of the corresponding Workbook, for viewing and printing from your computer.
c. 1997, DVD 50 Min... $39.95


Training Mules & Donkeys: Jumping (VHS: Tape #7)
by: Meredith Hodges
Video Tape & Workbook: Pertaining to Mules. Stadium & cross country courses: equipment, types of jumps, correct rider positions, judging strides. Training segments include cavalletti and warm-up exercises, gymnastics, stadium jumping, course work & cross country. Cavaletti to cross rail patterns, jump construction & many more tips & tricks.
c. 1997, VHS 42 Min... $39.95
VHS Out-Of-Print, Available Only While Supply Lasts


Training Mules & Donkeys: Jumping (DVD: Video #7)
by: Meredith Hodges
DVD: Pertaining to Mules. Introduces stadium and cross-country jumping including courses, equipment, types of jumps, correct rider positions and judging strides. Training segments include cavalletti and warm-up exercises, gymnastics, stadium jumping and course work and cross country. Here you will find tips on jump construction and much more. Includes an electronic version (PDF file) of the corresponding Workbook, for viewing and printing from your computer.
c. 1997, DVD 42 Min... $39.95


Training Mules & Donkeys: Management, Fitting & Grooming (VHS: Tape #8)
by: Meredith Hodges
Video Tape & Workbook: Pertaining to Mules. Housing, feed & nutrition, routine care, grooming, body clipping, braiding & advanced showmanship.
c. 1998, VHS 46 Min... $39.95
VHS Out-Of-Print, Available Only While Supply Lasts


Training Mules & Donkeys: Management, Fitting & Grooming (DVD: Video #8)
by: Meredith Hodges
DVD: Pertaining to Mules. Covers shelter, feeding and nutrition, routine care, grooming, body clipping, braiding and advanced showmanship. Includes an electronic version (PDF file) of the corresponding Workbook, for viewing and printing from your computer.
c. 1998, DVD 46 Min... $39.95


Training Mules & Donkeys: Donkey Training: Introduction & Basic Training (VHS: Tape #9)
by: Meredith Hodges
Video Tape & Workbook: Pertaining to Donkeys. Differences between training donkeys & mules, imprinting, tying, leading, obstacle course, trailer loading, showmanship, athletic potential. Jacks: Training to breed-in-hand.
c.1999, VHS 45 Min...$39.95
VHS Out-Of-Print, Available Only While Supply Lasts


Training Mules & Donkeys: Donkey Training: Introduction & Basic Training (DVD: Video #9)
by: Meredith Hodges
DVD: Pertaining to Donkeys. Covers differences between training mules and training donkeys, imprinting, tying and leading, trailer loading, showmanship and measuring for athletic potential. Also covers jacks: training to breed in hand. Includes an electronic version (PDF file) of the corresponding Workbook, for viewing and printing from your computer.
c.1999, DVD 45 Min...$39.95


Training Mules & Donkeys: Donkey Training: Saddle Training & Jumping (VHS: Tape #10)
by: Meredith Hodges
Video Tape & Workbook: Pertaining to Donkeys. Basics, trotting, mounting, patterns, obstacles, canter, advanced training, lateral training, lengthening & jumping. Massage for your equine.
c.1999, VHS 45 Min...$39.95
VHS Out-Of-Print, Available Only While Supply Lasts


Training Mules & Donkeys: Donkey Training: Saddle Training & Jumping (DVD: Video #10)
by: Meredith Hodges
DVD: Pertaining to Donkeys. Covers basics in the roundpen including trotting, mounting, patterns and obstacles, the canter, lateral training, lengthening and jumping. Also, massage for your equine. Includes an electronic version (PDF file) of the corresponding Workbook, for viewing and printing from your computer.
c.1999, DVD 45 Min...$39.95


Training Mules & Donkeys: A Logical Approach to Longears
by: Meredith Hodges
For beginners and veterns alike, this is the first complete book on mule training, and now it has been revised. It gives a condensed but thorough outline of the information and training covered in the DVD Training Series. Color photos. 268 pgs

About The Author: Meredith Hodges has been associated with mules & donkeys for over 25 years. She has studied Animal Sciences at Colorado State University, and is an animal inspector, representative and judge for the American Donkey and Mule Society. Meredith and her mules have appeared in the Tournament of Roses Parade. To date she has written several books on donkey and mule training, with a ten-tape video series that accompanies the books, as well as several children's books.

c.2013, Revised, H/C...$39.95


Training Mules & Donkeys: Donkey Training (A Logical Approach to Longears)
Hodges, Meredith
For beginners or veterans, this book covers the keys to training donkeys.Predictability, imprinting, haltering, lunging, work area, obstacles, massage. Lots of color photos. 157 pgs.
c. 1999, H/C...$39.95


Training Mules & Donkeys: Equine Management & Donkey Training (A Logical Approach to Longears)
Hodges, Meredith

Workbook which corresponds to Meredith Hodges' Videos #8 (Management, Fitiing, Grooming), #9 (Intro to Donkey & Basic Training), and #10 (Keys to Training the Donkey). Videos sold seperately.
c. 1999, Spiral...$19.95


Training The Sheep Dog
by: Longton, Thomas & Sykes, Barbara

Comprehensive guide to training a Border Collie for trailing. 144 pgs.
c. 1997, H/C...$35.00


Training Your Dog For Sports & Other Activities
by: Schwartz, Charlotte

The author demonstrates how your pet dog can assume a useful and meaningful role in everyday life. Through the author's innovative "F.E.T.C.H." method, an owner can train his dog to perform simple household chores or to participate in organized trials. The following topics are discussed: agility, backpacking, boating, camping, carting, conformation shows, exercising, field trials, Flyball, Frisbee, herding, hiking, home helpers, jumping, obedience, scent work, Schutzhund, sledding, swimming, tricks, terrier hunting trials, therapy work, tracking, water sports, weight pulling, yard work, and more. 160 pgs.
c. 1996, H/C...$19.95


Training Your Parakeet, Step By Step
by: Campbell, Darlene

Selection, bathing, clipping, taming, talking, health, breeding, housing, feeding. 64 pgs.
c. 1990, S/C...$5.95


Training Your Parrot
by: Murphy, Kevin P.

Topics covered: The pet parrot in your home, selecting a parrot, housing & equipment, daily care, taming, speech training. B/W & Color photos. 189 pgs.
c. 1983, H/C...$23.95


Training Your Pet Ferret
by: Bucsis, Gerry

The authors explain that effective training can start anytime, whether the owner adopts an adult ferret or purchases a baby as kit. The first seventeen chapters give information on housing and equipment. Following chapters give practical advice on litter box training, getting family members including the kids used to frequent handling of the ferret, protecting the animal against household hazards, protecting carpets and houseplants from ferret damage, communicating with your pet, and even walking on a leash, hassle-free travel, and games to play. Handsome, full-color photos help to demonstrate training techniques and show ferrets in the household. 96 pgs.
c. 1997, S/C...$8.95


Training Your Pet Hamster
by: Bucsis, Gerry & Somerville, Barbara

Once owners teach their hamster to welcome their touch, training can go on to include many games with widely available cage toys, as well as litter training, rolling on a rubber ball, and even leash-walking. Features full-color photos on nearly every page, tips for hassle-free travel with a pet, advice on managing behavior problems, and a selection of games that owners can teach their pets to play. 90 Color photos. 87 pgs.
c. 2002, S/C...$8.95


Training Your Pet Rat
by: Gerry Bucsis & Barbara Somerville

Advice on caging, feeding, rat management, do-it-yourself ideas on improving your rat's habitat, lessons in building trust, play, leash walking, squeaking, fun & games, mazes, & other tricks. Color photos. 95 pgs.
c. 2000, S/C...$6.95


Tricks Your Cat Can Do
by: Langley, Gilbert W.

Contains step-by-step instructions to teach your cat to perform like a circus animal, such as basic principles, training tips, rapid learning, sit, up, down, through a hoop.
c. 1991, H/C...$5.95


Ultimate Guide To Dog Training
by: Siegal, Mordecai & Margolis, Matthew "Uncle Matty"

Matthew Margolis, who has endeared himself to millions of dog owners on the popular PBS series, "Woof" and "Woof Woof, " once again teams up with award-winning pet writer Mordecai Siegal to cover everything from housebreaking a pet to curbing a dog's tendency to chew everything in sight. B/W photos. 283 pgs.
c. 1998, S/C...$13.00


Untamed
by: Gebel-Williams, Gunther

Autobiography of the circus's greatest animal trainer. B/W photos. 383 pgs.
c. 1991, H/C...$19.95
Used, Out-Of-Print, Quantities Limited
Condition: Very Good like new with dust jacket

Water Dog: Revolutionary Rapid Training Method
by: Wolters, Richard A.

Written for the man with limited time who wants to train a working retriever fast & who wants to train it himself. It is a step-by-step training book, starting from the day you get your puppy to the finished dog in picture sequence. It covers every aspect of training. B/W photos. 180 pgs.
c. 1964, H/C...$12.50
Used, Out-Of-Print, Quantities Limited
Condition: Very Good with dust jacket


Wild Tigers & Tame Fleas
by: Ballantine, Bill

The most engaging, informative & throughly delightdul book there has ever been on the subject of trained beasts. There are 13 chapters, each concentrating on the career of one particular trainer & covering all kinds of animals, giving natural history, unnatural history, folklore & circus lore. The opener is on pigs, the animal whose antics in a mid-nineteenth century circus so charmed the Ringling brothers & inspired their own career as circus men. The finale is on elephants, & in between are dogs, mules, bears, lions, tigers, sea lions, camels, snakes, apes, chimps, & fleas.Illustrated. 344 pgs.
c. 1958, H/C...$60.00
Used, Out-Of-Print, Quantities Limited
Condition: Good - Very Good with dust jacket, inside Very Good & clean, inscription from author inside front cover, dust jacket has tears on edges


Working Ferrets: Selection, Training & Sport
by: Drakeford, Jackie

How to train & use ferrets to chase rabbits from their buries. Every aspect of working the ferret is included, from the choice of animal and the equipment needed to discerning the layout of buries and working the ferret with dogs. 128 pgs.
c. 1996, S/C...$18.95


 

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