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Does your gun dog training need a little more structure? Are you part of a group that wants a program to help organize your training together? Or maybe you are an instructor who wants to organize a course based on Retrieving for All Occasions? Then this study guide is for you!

<b>"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much." </b><br/> Mark Twain<br/><br/>From <i>Six Dinner Sid</i> and T.S. Eliot's rebellious Rum Tum Tugger to the infuriating Cheshire Cat of Wonderland and Behemoth the Cat, the demonic shapeshifter of Bulgakov's <i>The Master and Margarita,</i> <i>A Literary Cat for Every Day of the Year</i> draws together quotes and passages from poems and stories in celebration of the most famous cats in literature.<br/><br/>A must-have for all cat-lovers and book lovers, this inspirational collection - with beautiful vintage line illustrations - is the perfect gift for feline fans to treasure all year long.

<b>From the author of the hit humor book </b><i><b>Men to Avoid in Art and Life</b></i><b> comes this tongue-in-cheek calendar of cats' innermost thoughts.</b><br/><br/>With its unlikely pairing of classical artwork and meme-style captions all about our feline friends, this calendar is the perfect present for any flavor of cat person. Whether they are the Smotherer, the Oversharer, the Pushover, the Proud Parent, or the Roommate, this hilariously insightful wall calendar is sure to brighten their day every month of the year.<br/><br/> 24-page 12 x 12 inch month-by-month calendar<br/><br/>Perfect for: <ul><li> Cat owners and lovers </li><li> Fans of snarky humor </li><li> Gift-giving for birthdays, holidays, or pet adoption celebrations </li><li> Fans of the eponymous book </li></ul>

Buckle up and get ready to hit the road for 50 of the Americas' greatest drives. Ranging in duration from a few hours to a week or more, each route is graded according to difficulty and features a first-hand account accompanied by awe-inspiring photographs, illustrated maps, practical information and suggestions for other similar road trips.

Do you have a gun dog and want to have a great time working with your dog and perhaps enter a field trial? Do you want to find a training method where your dog has just as much fun as you do? Do you want to learn how to combine clicker training and field trial training? If so, this is the book for you. Retrieving for All Occasions is an accessible and inspiring book about how you can use the clicker training philosophy in your gun dog training. The book describes an approach to gun dog training that will challenge you to try something new ? if you have the desire and will to do so. This book includes over 100 exercises to train a talented spaniel or retriever. The exercises are for introductory field trial classes for spaniels and retrievers, but this book is also useful for those who have pointers or setters and want to train them for gun dog work. Elsa Blomster and Lena Gunnarsson are dog training instructors in Gothenburg, Sweden, and base all their training on the clicker training philosophy. They train and compete with their spaniels and retrievers in obedience, agility, rally obedience, tracking, and field trials.

In <i>Birds and Us,</i> award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey through this mutual history with birds, from the ibises mummified and deified by Ancient Egyptians to Renaissance experiments on woodpecker anatomy, from Victorian obsessions with egg collecting to the present fight to save endangered species and restore their habitats.<br/><br/>Weaving in stories from his own life as a scientist, including far-flung expeditions to wondrous Neolithic caves in Spain and the bustling guillemot colonies of the Faroe Islands, this rich and fascinating book is the culmination of a lifetime's research and unforgettably shows how birds shaped us, and how we have shaped them.<br/><br/>'<i>Birds</i><i> and</i> <i>Us</i> wings its way through 12,000 years of our species' engagement with the avian world. Birkhead tells it all with delightful gusto, plaiting personal encounters with challenging historical research and bewitching scientific rigor' <b>Tim Dee</b><br/><br/>'Thought-provoking at every turn, this inspiring, shocking, wonder-filled exploration of our relationship with birds from earliest times delivers a sobering challenge to us living with birds today' <b>Isabella Tree, author of <i>Wilding</i></b><br/><br/>'A fascinating book about the close and often surprising relationship between birds and people, written by one of our leading ornithologists' <b>Stephen Moss</b>

What would the world become like, if there were no hierarchy? This book begins with the acquaintance of a viscous pony. She taught the author, Emelie Cajsdotter, two things; that there is another way of communicating. But for that to be possible, one must first erase all differences in value. The author was eleven years old at that time, and ever since, she has been travelling around the world asking the same question. Is it necessary to use dominance in the handling of animals? And would it be possible for a human being to put a non-hierarchal principle into practice? Spending the last thirteen years with telepathic communication and alternative treatments of animals, she noticed that many animal owners were expressing a fear of their animals taking over. As if there was an inherent struggle for power, needing to be restraint. Curious to find out whether herd animals relate to the common image of a pecking order, she began studying semi-wild horses and dogs.