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Training your guinea pig / Gerry Bucsis, Barbara Somerville.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hauppauge, N.Y. : Barron's Educational Series, c2012.Description: 102 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0764146254 (pbk.)
  • 9780764146251 (pbk.)
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Contents:
Preparations come first -- Good nutrition is important for lifelong learning -- Choosing your trainees -- Training your cavies to trust you -- Fostering friendship: guinea pig introductions -- Learning guinea pig language -- Decoding body language -- A need to gnaw -- Challenge your cavy's IQ: set up a stimulating cage -- Out-of-the-cage playtime -- Learning through play -- Training technique #1: lure-reward training -- Training technique #2: clicker training -- Coming when called -- Litter training -- Teaching tricks -- Lessons in leash walking -- Guinea pig travel plans -- A lifetime of learning.
Summary: "Barron's Training Your Pet books are for inexperienced pet owners who seek detailed advice on how to get started in keeping and training caged pets. These books describe and illustrate the correct housing and equipment, and advise on getting all members of the household acquainted with the newly acquired pet. Guinea pigs are docile, easy to care for, and are capable of learning tricks. This book advises on keeping healthy and contented guinea pigs, and suggests activities that will amuse both the pets and their owners. Color photos on most pages"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 636.9359 B926 Available 33111006812503
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Training Your Guinea Pig is for pet owners who seek detailed advice on how to get started in training their guinea pig. Guinea pigs are docile, easy to care for, and are capable of learning tricks. Teaching you first how to earn your guinea's trust and friendship, this relationship will be the building blocks to training tricks, enrichment games, and commands.

Additional knowledge and advise in this book consists of the correct cage or DIY housing, toys and enrichment information, guinea language and communication, advise on getting all members of the household acquainted, and keeping a healthy and content guinea pig. The suggests activities within these pages will amuse both pet and owner and quickly become a trusted life-long resource for these unique and smart animals.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 100) and index.

Preparations come first -- Good nutrition is important for lifelong learning -- Choosing your trainees -- Training your cavies to trust you -- Fostering friendship: guinea pig introductions -- Learning guinea pig language -- Decoding body language -- A need to gnaw -- Challenge your cavy's IQ: set up a stimulating cage -- Out-of-the-cage playtime -- Learning through play -- Training technique #1: lure-reward training -- Training technique #2: clicker training -- Coming when called -- Litter training -- Teaching tricks -- Lessons in leash walking -- Guinea pig travel plans -- A lifetime of learning.

"Barron's Training Your Pet books are for inexperienced pet owners who seek detailed advice on how to get started in keeping and training caged pets. These books describe and illustrate the correct housing and equipment, and advise on getting all members of the household acquainted with the newly acquired pet. Guinea pigs are docile, easy to care for, and are capable of learning tricks. This book advises on keeping healthy and contented guinea pigs, and suggests activities that will amuse both the pets and their owners. Color photos on most pages"-- Provided by publisher.

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