Canine Cross Training: Building Balance, Strength and Endurance in Your Dog
Sasha Foster combines science and real-life experience to provide the reader with practical guidelines for canine cross training. The book includes many illustrations, pictures and case examples making it an easy, enjoyable read. Canine exercises and science will likely continue to evolve quickly over the coming years, in the meantime this book offers a solid outline of current concepts of canine conditioning. --Felix Duerr, DVM and Diplomate, American and European College of Veterinary SurgeonsCanine Cross Training is a tremendous resource rooted in the science of training and conditioning and executed through positive techniques to develop the brain as well as the body. The program is easy to follow and the steps for progression are well defined. We look forward to implementing and evaluating the age appropriate exercises in our puppies at the Penn Vet Working Dog Center and working dogs in the field. --Cynthia M. Otto, DVM, PhD and Executive Director of the Penn Vet Working Dog Centerlove the process of shaping a dog s behavior watching the dog s brain become actively engaged. Canine Cross Training uses the shaping process to provide physical as well as mental exercise in healthy, healthful, fun ways. It is so much fun training dogs for useful behavior and Canine Cross Training makes it physically healthful, too. --Gail Fisher, Owner, All Dogs Gym®, author of The Thinking Dog