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Unleash your love life by walking your dog!

Think romance has gone to the dogs? You're right-and it's actually a good thing! Studies show you're three times more likely to meet someone if you have a dog with you. So leash up your pooch and get ready to enter the world of meeting, greeting, and falling in love with dog lovers and their dogs in The Dog Lover's Guide to Dating. Combining wit, warmth, and wisdom with lots of practical advice, dog trainer Deborah Wood shows you the techniques of dog experts-as well as the secrets of the American Kennel Club!-for finding the right human mate for you. She offers encouragement and inspiration for the romantically challenged dog lover, providing a list of the best and worst date breeds and activities you can do with your dog to meet new friends-and maybe even Mr. or Ms. Right. You'll see how to:
* Find the hot spots where single dog lovers congregate
* Break the ice with conversation starters that are perfect for dog lovers
* Train your dog to fetch a date
* Write a canine-friendly personal ad
* Ensure that your dog and your new love get along
* Spot dog owners who should be avoided
* Use your dog to prolong a date-or end it

Featuring a host of true-life love stories and fun, revealing self-quizzes, The Dog Lover's Guide to Dating will help you find your perfect match!
Acknowledgments.

1. The New Relationship Guru.

2. Looking for Love in All the Dog Places.

3. What Happens if This Book Falls Into the Wrong Hands?

4. The Best—and the Worst—Date Bait Breeds.

5. So Your Dog Isn’t a Party Animal.

6. Using the Techniques of Dog Experts and the Secrets of the AKC to Find the Perfect Human Mate.

7. A Healthy Balance.

8. Dogs as Date Bait in Film and Fiction.

9. Train Your Dog to Fetch a Date.

10. You Never Get a Second Chance to Make a First Impression (on the Dog).

11. Where the Dogs Are.

12. Energetic Dogs and Frisky Humans Getting Together and Having Fun.

13. Whining and Dining With Dogs.

14. Turn-Offs and Do’s and Don’ts.

15. 15 Activities You Can Do With Your Dog That Are Guaranteed to Bring You New Friends (and Maybe Even Romance).

16. Single Buff Puppy . . . .

17. What Our Dogs Teach Us About Successful Relationships.

18. Road Trip!

19. The First Date.

20. Using Your Dog to End a Bad Date.

21. Compatible Pets and Partners (Including the Compatibility Quiz).

22. Dogs on the Bed.

23. What Happens if Love Doesn’t Nuzzle Its Way Into Your Heart.

Appendix: Training Fundamentals.

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American Kennel Club

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	27 août 2007
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780470256664
Langue	English

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The Dog Lover s Guide to Dating: Using Cold Noses to Find Warm Hearts
Using Cold Noses to Find Warm Hearts
BY DEBORAH WOOD
Copyright 2004 by Deborah Wood. All rights reserved.
Howell Book House
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Wood, Deborah, date.
The Dog Lover s Guide to Dating: Using Cold Noses to Find Warm Hearts : using cold noses to find warm hearts / by Deborah Wood.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-7645-2501-8 (alk. paper)
1. Dating (Social customs) 2. Man-woman relationships. 3. Human-animal relationships. 4. Human-animal communication. 5. Dogs-Behavior. 6. Dogs-Training. I. Title: Guide to dating : using cold noses to find warm hearts. II. Title.
HQ801.W83 2003
646.7 7-dc21
2003008091
Manufactured in the United States of America
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All photos copyright Carole Archer/Archer Photography
Book production by Wiley Publishing, Inc. Composition Services
Also by Deborah Wood from Howell Book House
Top Dogs: Making It to Westminster
Help for Your Shy Dog: Turning Your Terrified Dog Into a Terrific Pet
I m dressed in pink and rhinestones-an outfit my stylish dog Goldie helped me choose.
To the dogs in my life: for the unexpected journeys we ve traveled, and the new paths we ve yet to explore.
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 The New Relationship Guru
2 Looking for Love in All the Dog Places
3 What Happens if This Book Falls Into the Wrong Hands?
4 The Best-and the Worst-Date Bait Breeds
5 So Your Dog Isn t a Party Animal
6 Using the Techniques of Dog Experts and the Secrets of the AKC to Find the Perfect Human Mate
7 A Healthy Balance
8 Dogs as Date Bait in Film and Fiction
9 Train Your Dog to Fetch a Date
10 You Never Get a Second Chance to Make a First Impression (on the Dog)
11 Where the Dogs Are
12 Energetic Dogs and Frisky Humans Getting Together and Having Fun
13 Whining and Dining With Dogs
14 Turn-Offs and Do s and Don ts
15 15 Activities You Can Do With Your Dog That Are Guaranteed to Bring You New Friends (and Maybe Even Romance)
16 Single Buff Puppy
17 What Our Dogs Teach Us About Successful Relationships
18 Road Trip!
19 The First Date
20 Using Your Dog to End a Bad Date
21 Compatible Pets and Partners (Including the Compatibility Quiz)
22 Dogs on the Bed
23 What Happens if Love Doesn t Nuzzle Its Way Into Your Heart
Appendix: Training Fundamentals
Acknowledgments
Ican t imagine writing without a lot of help from my friends. I owe a huge debt to the following people, who gave me ideas, told me their stories, made me laugh, and kept telling me to keep writing. Special thanks to Dr. Joel Gavriele-Gold, who shared a lot of time and wisdom for this book. Other people who helped enormously were Joan Harrigan, Andrea Arden, Janine Adams, Shannon Wilkerson, Leah Atwood, Markie Burkhart, Kathy Taylor, Jerry Taylor, Robin Thompson, Elizabeth Knight, Mark Andres, Dr. Mary Lee Nitschke, Michelle Wood, Kerrin Winter-Churchill, Ellie Wyckoff, Jill Miller, Frank Wood, Christine Turner, Phyllis Nistad, Valerie Stern, Dale DeRoest, Patie Ventre, Nikki Moustaki, Jill Critchfield, Matthew Wood, Dr. Sophia Yin, Jean Owen, Maggie Cullen, Karen Kraus, Barbara Baugnon, Mike Miller, Irene Shang, Eileen Doyle, Paula Ratoza, Cheryl Dondino, Luke Bates, Dr. Adrianne Becker, Stacy and Bill Conroy, Angela and Jack Moore, Tracy Thomas, Chris Thomas, Dan Miller, Matt Fitcher, Jay Multanen, Cindi Pruitt, Debbie Sikes, Mitchel Remsing, and Margie Vincent-Roberts. I ve been told that a writing life is a lonely life. That certainly hasn t been my experience!
Thanks to the many couples who shared their stories of true love.
Many of the dog tricks in this book come from the Games and Tricks class that Pogo and I took with Susan Fletcher. Thank you Susan for a great class - we re having fun with the tricks!
Carole Archer s terrific photography made this book better than mere words could ever accomplish.
Thanks to Beth Adelman at Howell Book House for keeping me (relatively) calm as the book kept morphing into new things - and for being a helpful and kind editor.
As always, thanks to my muses: Goldie, Radar, Pogo (my Papillons) and Mews the cat. You make every day a joy, my friends.
Chapter 1
The New Relationship Guru
Looking for a relationship guru is nothing new.
There was the guy who told us that men are from Mars and women are from Venus. All that did for me was reinforce my certain belief that my last lover probably was an extraterrestrial.
There have been a host of writers who ve written goofy books about how women are supposed to greet their lovers dressed only in plastic wrap, or how they should follow the Rules and always let the man make every decision. These brief forays back to the 1950s were amusing, but no one I know actually found happiness there (in the decade or in the goofy books).
And what about the workout instructors who were supposed to whip us into shape and make our bodies irresistible? Well, Americans are plumper than ever, and probably some of those plump people used to be aerobics instructors.
No, we ve turned to the wrong people to guide us to love. The Venus/Mars relationship guru is as pass as disco dancing. The personal trainer is as obsolete as getting jiggy with it.
The person of the hour-the individual with the answers to the future happiness of the masses looking for love-is the dog trainer.
Wipe the picture of the old-fashioned dog trainer out of your mind! We re not talking about the guy with the choke collars who made the dogs and people in class behave with military precision. No, your guide to finding love is the modern dog trainer.
More likely than not, today s dog trainer is a slightly overweight woman with a clicker in her hand and permanently encrusted dog treats in the pockets of her baggy jeans. But she can look at an untrained Rottweiler without fear and turn that dog into date bait. Because of her power, a dog trainer is more than a relationship guru; she is a relationship goddess.
I am one of those goddesses. I can teach your dog to attract more people than ever before and to literally fetch a mate for you. I know the best places to go to meet dog lovers, and what you should say to both humans and canines to make them look at you with longing in their eyes.
I know where the bones are buried, so to speak. It s time to unleash your love life.
Chapter 2
Looking for Love in All the Dog Places
The traditional methods of meeting a potential love interest just don t work very well.
Meet someone at a bar? I m more likely to orchestrate an intervention than ask for the guy s phone number.
Find romance at work? Can you spell sexual harassment lawsuit?
You can t be seriously looking for love at the grocery store. Come on! If you see someone suggestively caressing the melons, your first thought isn t, Now that s a normal, functioning adult.
One book I read suggested that singles hang out at banks, since employed people go there to make deposits. But it seems the employed person you d meet would likely be a police officer or FBI agent during what could be a rigorous and ugly interrogation.

You re three times more likely to have someone stop and talk to you if you have a dog with you. I like those odds!
Probably the worst idea in the history of humankind was the 90s fad of looking for love at the gym. Let s face it: Some of us are built more like Pugs than Greyhounds, and trust me when I say that no one wants to see a Pug in Lycra.
Happily, the answer to the problem is probably lying at your feet right now. Yes, once again, you ll find that a dog really is man s (and woman s) best friend.
Your dog is ideal