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Dancing With Dogs: Easy-to-learn Techniques and Fun Routines for You and Your Dog | 
 enlarge | Authors: Mary Ray, Andrea Mchugh
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press (CA)
Category: Book
List Price: $10.95
Buy New: $3.71
You Save: $7.24 (66%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 612657
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 7.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 159223531X
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.70835
EAN: 9781592235315
ASIN: 159223531X
Publication Date: September 28, 2006
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Product Description
Get ready to rhumba with your ridgeback, salsa with your Samoyed, and tango with your terrier! Look out Fred and Ginger a new breed of dancer is taking center stage in this fun frolic for four-legged friends and their two-legged partners. Dancing with Dogs features the following. Written by three-time Crufts winner Mary Ray and Sarah Whitehead, a well-known pet-care author, dog owners are offered a delightful way to connect with their pooches. Plenty of heelwork-to-music techniques and lots of fun routines for you and your dog to learn together are provided. By combining dog tricks with dance routines, this easy-to-follow book will teach you how to train your dog (and yourself!) to perform simple, entertaining dance routines. Everything is covered from basic to advanced moves, choreography, and how to use props and costumes. Pooches and their partners can learn 20 themed routines, including Saturday Night Fever, Swashbuckling Pirates, and Top Hat Tap Dance. Simple step-by-step instructions and plenty of adorable color photographs and graphics enhance this fabulous book.
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Dancing with Dogs January 19, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Mary Ray, one of the best freestyle dancers in the world, has done an excellent job in writing this book for all those who want to learn more about doing Freestyle with their dogs. It gives step by step instructions using pictures and diagrams on how to teach certain moves making them very easy to follow. It gives ideas of what kind of moves look good in a dance including starting and finishing poses. There is a section on how to plan a dance out on paper, including music, props and costumes. It concludes with an entire section of Mary Rays dance routines with an explanation of the moves, costumes and music. This book is a "must have" to both the novice and the more advanced freestyle enthusiast.
Inviting pictures, easy to read text, great value for the price October 19, 2006
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I'm giving the book a paws up. The layout is very inviting -
spacious with lots of pictures and easy to read. From cover to cover,
the book probably takes about 2 hours to read. To perform all the
training and routines in the book would take a lifetime.
Some of the information is very general - clicker training on a single
page. However, the general information does includes the most
important aspects of training concepts.
Much of the strength of the book is in the Dance Routines shown in the
later chapters. She's got routines for Star and Stripes, Singing in
the Rain, Puppet on a String, and others. She outlines the steps and
tricks in the routine and supplements the written description with
pictures. She suggests music to use with the routines, films to watch,
and tips for improving your performance.
The book would be a fabulous resource for a 4H club, anyone trying to
put together his or her first routine, or an expercienced freestyler
looking for some new ideas. A book you might refer to over and over, picking up something new each time. At the price you can't beat it.
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