Welcome to the Edmonton Dog Training Library

This page is a list of reading materials recommended and endorsed by Hell On Paws.

We suggest you collect as many of these titles as possible.  And take what you can from each piece.

Getting as many different perspectives and opinions from as many different sources is the only real way for you to advance yourself in the traditional dog training arts.

Recommended Reading List

  • The Story of Dog Obedience - Blanche Saunders

  • How to Train the Family Dog - Willy Necker

  • Companion Dog Training - Hans Tossuti

  • Pearsall Guide to Successful Dog Training

  • German Shepherds Dog in Word and Picture (first edition only) - Max von Stephanitz

  • Training Dogs: A Manual - Konrad Most

  • Train Your Dog - Carl Spitz

  • The Dog in Training - Josef Weber

  • The Rin-Tin-Tin Book of Dog Care - Lee Duncan

  • Go Find! Training Your Dog To Track - L. Wilson Davis

  • Unrevealed Secrets About Training Your Dog - C.A. Roy

  • Forty Years with Dogs - Edwin Hautenville Richardson

  • British War Dogs: their training and psychology - E.H. Richardson

  • Watch Dogs: their training and management - E.H. Richardson

  • Blanche Saunders Obedience training Courses - B. Saunders

  • How to Train Dogs for the Home, Stage and Moving Picture - Henry East

  • The Phenomenon of Benji - Joe Camp & Frank Inn

  • The Lassie Method - Rudd Weatherwax

  • Dogs for Police Service Programming & Training - S.D. Watson

  • Police Dogs and their training - Reginald Arundel

  • Police Dogs at Work - Tom Mahir

  • Training the Police Dog - Fred Kollet

  • Training Guard Dogs - John Watson Macinnes

 

  • United States Military Working Dog Field Manuals - we highly recommend fans of this site read each of the United States Militaries field manuals issued on the subjects of training war dogs/military working dogs.  There are many different manuals that cover many different subjects.

 

Non-Instructional Books

  • One Man and His Dog - Anthony Richardson

  • Buddies: men, dogs and world war II - Douglas Keeney

  • Colonel Richardson's Airedales: the making of the british war dog school 1900-1918 - Brian Cummins

  • Dogs of War - John Behan (book of photographs)

  • War Dogs: a history of loyalty and heroism - Michael Lemish

  • War Dog Heroes: true stories of dog courage in war time - Jeanette Sanderson

  • DOGS FOR DEFENSE: American Dogs in the Second World War, 1941-45 - Downey, Fairfax

  • A Soldier's Best Friend: scout dogs and their handlers in the Vietnam War

  • Dog Tags of Courage (combat infantrymen and War Dog heroes in Vietnam) - John Burnam

 

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