Hi lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to host
Dixie Tenny and her new book, “How to Find Your Dream Dog”! For other stops on her iRead Book Tour and to check out the other exciting types of tour stops, please visit the Tour Schedule Section down below.
Be sure to make it to the end of this post to enter to
win an awesome Dream Dog prize pack!! There
will be FIVE lucky winners!!! See below
for more details. Also, come back daily
to interact with Dixie and to increase your chances of winning!
Thanks for stopping by! Wishing you lots of luck in this fabulous
giveaway!
How to Find Your Dream Dog
By Dixie Tenny
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GENRE:
Adult, Non-Fiction
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BOOK DESCRIPTION:
Bringing a new dog
into the household should be one of life’s happiest events. The process always
starts with excitement and high expectations. Too often, though, it ends in
disappointment. The new puppy wakes everyone three times a night, gnaws on
furniture, piddles everywhere, knocks the children down. The new adolescent dog
is too wild. The new adult dog growls at your neighbors. And where did all this
dog hair come from?
Most people spend
hours researching a new mattress, days researching a new car, and weeks
researching a new home or job. Yet for a new dog, a companion for the next
10-15 years, the most they do is visit the nearest shelter or pet shop and buy
whatever looks cute and appealing. It’s no wonder they end up disappointed.
Whether you are
looking for a purebred puppy or a charming mixed-breed, the type of dog you
bring into your home matters. A quiet owner will struggle to keep up with a
high-energy labrador mix, for instance, while an active outdoor family will be
impatient with a snoozy bulldog. And finding the right kind of dog means
becoming the right kind of owner—a task that takes some forethought and
planning.
How To Find Your
Dream Dog is here to fix the disconnect of dog ownership. It walks you
step-by-step through the process of choosing the right type of dog for you—not
only exploring the canine qualities that can determine your perfect puppy,
adolescent, or adult dog, but also assessing your lifestyle to make sure you’re
a good match for the dog, too. The book also looks at good (and bad) sources
for finding healthy and sound pet dogs, gives guidelines for evaluating
individual puppies, and warns of some red flags to watch out for during your
dog search. With this guidebook in hand, you can be confident that the next
puppy or dog you bring home will be the right companion and friend for you for
the rest of its days.
Dixie Tenny is a
Certified Training Partner with the Karen Pryor Academy of Animal Training and
Behavior. During her 30+ years spent working with people and their pets, she
has seen again and again how mismatches between dog and owner can create
“behavior problems” that never would have happened if the right dog had been
matched to the right owner in the first place. She wrote this book to help
puppy buyers and dog adopters start out on the best possible foot with their
new pet dogs, and stay on that path for years to come.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Dixie
Tenny
has been helping people and their dogs find each other and form successful
partnerships since the early 1980s. She founded Purebred Dog Rescue of Saint
Louis in 1984, which as far as she knows was the country’s first organization
that combined the efforts of people who worked in rescue for many breeds under
the umbrella of one organization. After moving to Seattle, Washington, she
co-founded Seattle Purebred Dog Rescue, Inc. (SPDR) in 1987. She was involved
in running this organization for the better part of thirteen years. SPDR was
featured in the American Kennel Club Gazette, where Dixie was referred to as
the “Matriarch” of purebred rescue. SPDR, still operating successfully as of
this writing, utilizes hundreds of wonderful volunteers to work with several
thousands of dogs each year, with great success due to their rigorous evaluation
and placement policies and their use of specialized breed representatives. The
organization received an award from the Humane Society in Bellevue, Washington,
due to the fact that SPDR’s help in placing the shelter’s purebreds allowed
many more mixed breeds to be placed successfully as well. Dixie also received
the Seattle Kennel Club’s “Honor Our Own” award in 2001 for her work with SPDR.
Twice, Dixie has been the recipient of the Gaines Good Sportsmanship medal.
Back in St. Louis
in 2001, Dixie turned her attention to behavior and training. She was the
Director of Training for the Greater St. Louis Training Club, Inc., for five
years, creating classes and overseeing the work of 40 head and assistant
trainers. In 2003 she and another experienced trainer created Dogs Unleashed,
LLC. Dixie and her partner traveled to clients’ homes and worked with a wide
range of behavior and training issues for four years. During this time Dixie
attended many continuing education conferences featuring trainers such as Dr. Ian
Dunbar, Kathy Sdao, Karen Pryor, and Suzanne Clothier. As Director of Training
for GSLTC, Inc., Dixie arranged and hosted seminars in St. Louis featuring Dr.
Patricia McConnell, Sue Ailsby, Dr. Roger Abrantes, Nicole Wilde, and Leslie
Nelson of Tails-U-Win. During this period, Dixie also served for several years
as a Judge for the Dog Writers’ Association of America annual awards.
In 2010, Dixie
took the six-month course offered by the Karen Pryor Academy for Animal
Training and Behavior, and qualified to become a Certified Training Partner for
that organization. Dixie formed her own business, Human-Animal Learning
Opportunities, LLC (HALO) in 2013. HALO hosted continuing education seminars
for dog trainers, featuring Dr. Jesús Rosales-Ruiz (three times), Mary Hunter
(twice), Celeste Walsen of Courthouse Dogs, and Steve White. Dixie is also a
Professional level member of the Association of Professional Dog Trainers, a
Certified Professional Dog Trainer - Knowledge Assessed, a founding member of
Saint Louis Pet Experts, and a Silver member of SPARCS (Society for the
Promotion of Applied Research in Canine Science). Dixie’s own continuing
education has included attending the annual conference put on by the
Organization for Reinforcement Contingencies with Animals (ORCA), which
features some of Dixie’s most respected animal trainers/researchers, including
Kay Laurence, Ken Ramirez, Dr. Jesús Rosales-Ruiz, Steve White, Alexandra
Kurland, and others. Dixie took Kay Laurence’s challenging two-year online
course, the Intelligent Dog Trainer Course (IDTC) in 2012-2013, and is proud to
have received Certification with Recommendation on her Unit 1 work. This book
and those that she hopes will follow came out of her Master Trainer project for
the Kay Laurence course.
Dixie has lived
with many dogs over the years, several mixed breeds as well as Australian,
German, and English Shepherds, Welsh, Cairn, and Airedale terriers, a Bernese
Mountain Dog, a Golden Retriever, and an Irish Wolfhound. Other pets have
included cats, birds, reptiles, hedgehogs, a beloved opossum, and more. Dixie
has shown some of her dogs in conformation and obedience trials, created and
taught Tricks classes, and dabbled in agility, K9 nose work, earthdog, and
rally obedience. While in Seattle, Dixie raised a labrador puppy for Canine
Companions for Independence, Inc. (CCI). Currently Dixie lives with a Beauceron
and an elderly Papillon, and a Somali, a Chantilly, and two Abyssinian cats.
When not doing things related to animals, she reads widely, enjoys the company
of her three grown children, follows baseball and English Premier League
football, and travels the world.
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BOOK BUY LINKS:
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Kindle:
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Paperback:
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TOUR SCHEDULE:
Feb 27 - #redhead.with.book
- review / giveaway
Feb 27 - Fabulous and Brunette - book spotlight / giveaway
Feb 28 - Books, Dreams, Life - review / author interview
Feb 28 - Leels Loves Books - review
March 1 - Working Mommy Journal - review / giveaway
March 1 - Laura Fabiani - Amazon.ca Top 1000 Reviewer - review
March 2 - A Mama's Corner of the World - review / giveaway
March 3 - Cheryl's Book Nook - review / guest post / giveaway
March 6 - Kristin's Novel Cafe - review
March 6 - Rainy Day Reviews - book spotlight / author interview
March 7 - 100 Pages a Day - review / guest post / giveaway
March 8 - Christy's Cozy Corners - book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
March 8 - From the TBR Pile - book spotlight
March 9 - Avalon Media - review / guest post
March 10 - Outset
- review / author interview / giveaway
March 13 - Svetlana's Reads and Views - review
March 13 - Heidi's Wanderings - review / guest post / giveaway
March 14 - Bound 4 Escape - review / giveaway
March 15 - Library of Clean Reads - review / giveaway
March 16 - 3 Partners in Shopping, Nana, Mommy, & Sissy, Too! - spotlight /
giveaway
March 16 - Everyday Gyaan - review / giveaway
March 17 - Reading Authors - review / giveaway
March 20 - T's Stuff - review / author interview / giveaway
March 21 - My Journey Back - review / author interview / giveaway
March 22 - StoreyBook Reviews - book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
March 23 - Anne Benard on Amazon - review
March 24 - Lukten av Trykksverte - review / giveaway
March 27 - Books for Books - review / guest post
March 28 - Create With Joy - review / giveaway
March 29 - Rockin' Book Reviews - review / guest post
March 30 - KC Beanie Boos Collection - review / author interview / giveaway
March 30 - Bookworm for Kids - review / giveaway
March 31 - Elsie's Audiobook Digest - review / author interview / giveaway
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GIVEAWAY:
Dixie is awarding a fabulous Dream Dog prize
pack to FIVE lucky winners!! Each
package includes a copy of her featured book, “How to Find Your Dream Dog,” a
$15 Amazon Gift Card AND an Outward Hound Slow Feeder Dog Bowl)!! There will be five winners in total. This giveaway is ONLY open to USA and Canada
residents. This giveaway ends on April 8,
2017.
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Dixie ~ It is great to have you here! Congrats on your new book and good luck on the book tour! Also, your furbabies are soooo cute!! Looking forward to reading this book :)
ReplyDeleteAlly - thanks so much for the wonderful welcome! I'm thrilled to be here, and really appreciate you featuring my book. I wrote it because I want *everyone* to find their dream dogs - and every dog to get its dream owner! :D
ReplyDeleteI am actually considering getting a new dog! I want a bichonpoo.
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