The Story of Dog Obedience

288 pp. The story of the growth of dog training in America. "Here Miss Saunders has told how the sport got its start because of a determination to show that the Poodle is not just a "sissy" dog. How the American Kennel Club was won over to recognition of Obedience. How two women and three Poodles traveled coast to coast in a trailer (long before the days of station wagons) to promote its cause. The first rules--and how voice and hand signals, along with second tries, were allowed to help a dog over the hurdles. Here is the story of the first trials, the first title winners, the first Obedience clubs."--rear board