{ "item_title" : "The Woof Code", "item_author" : [" Mark Meranto "], "item_description" : "Your dog has been talking to you this whole time.With its tail, its ears, its eyes, its shoulders and about forty other things at once. It has never once stopped. Nobody ever taught your child how to read any of it.The Woof Code is a training manual for young dog handlers, and it does something almost no other children's dog book does: it teaches the reading before it teaches the tricks. Because a child who can tell what a dog is feeling is a child who is safer around dogs, and a child who can train one properly.150 numbered entries. Ten chapters. One hundred points.Every chapter has fifteen entries, two boxed Pro Tips, and a Challenge at the end worth ten points that sends the reader out to try it on a real, live, completely unimpressed dog. The points move them up five ranks - from Biscuit Dispenser, all the way to Fluent.Three entries, straight out of the book5. The high stiff flicker. Tail up high, clamped tight, vibrating in a tiny fast buzz. This is technically a wag. It is not a friendly one. Stiff plus fast is the combination that should make the back of your neck go cold.17. Whale eye. The dog turns its head away from something but keeps its eyes locked on it, so you see a crescent of white at the side of the eye. It means: I do not like this, and I am running out of polite options. It is in nearly every photograph of a child hugging a dog while the family laughs.68. Almost every naughty puppy is a tired puppy. Puppies need eighteen to twenty hours of sleep a day. An overtired one does not lie down - it goes feral. It looks exactly like a behaviour problem. The answer is not more training. The answer is bed.InsideReading the tail, the face and the whole dog - and the warning list dogs work through long before anybody gets bittenThe foods that send dogs to the vet, including the one hiding in ordinary peanut butterSurviving a puppy: the biting, the weeing, the chewing and the five o'clock meltdownThe five words that actually matter - sit, down, come, wait and leave it - taught properly, in orderWalking a dog without being towed down the streetTricks that look far harder than they are, and how to invent your ownWrite-in logs, a scorecard, an emergency page for the vet's number, and a certificate to sign at the endFor the adult who is actually buying thisThis book is built to be used with you, and it says so on page one. Every challenge assumes an adult is present. Food, vaccinations, equipment and where a dog is allowed off the lead are all framed as your decisions, repeatedly.It also refuses to teach a child to handle the things a child should not handle. Growling over food, real fear, aggression, distress at being left alone - each one is routed to you and to a qualified professional, by name, in the text.And it is current. It never punishes a growl, because punishing a warning removes the warning. It does not repeat the dominance and alpha material, which came from a study of captive unrelated wolves in the 1940s and which the researcher most associated with it spent years trying to withdraw. It treats a sudden change in behaviour as a question for a vet before a trainer, because pain presents as behaviour far more often than people realise.Ages 8 to 12, with an adult. Older readers will still find plenty in it, and so, quietly, will most of the grown-ups in the house.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/817/646/9798176467734_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "14.99", "online_price" : "14.99", "our_price" : "14.99", "club_price" : "14.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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