Sometimes situations arise with puppies and adult dogs where the owner doesn’t know what to do about something pretty important. Perhaps their large year-old dog insists on jumping up on everyone it meets when taken for walks. Perhaps house-training hasn’t worked sufficiently yet. Perhaps the puppy is nipping constantly at the children. You name it, there are so many possible challenges.

Often the first step is to gather information: read a book, watch a DVD, go online to dog forums ( Dogforums.com is one) and websites like this one. Quite often the owner solves the problem by taking action on the information gleaned. And it works.

But many other times, the best choice is really to get the help of a good trainer.

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Dogwise recently announced that the new 2008 edition of Terry Ryan’s Coaching People to Train Their Dogs is available now. If you haven’t heard of Terry Ryan, she is a renowned dog trainer whose books, lectures, and workshops have long been focused on teaching dog trainers how to teach people to train their dogs. This nearly 400 page book covers everything a dog trainer would want to know, in great detail — the Table of Contents alone runs nine pages!

To give you the idea, here are the chapter headings in that long Table of Contents:

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