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Working Dog Heroes

How One Man Gives Shelter Dogs New Life and Purpose

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Working Dog Heroes

By: Steve Austin
Narrated by: David Tredinnick
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A great Aussie yarn packed with inspiring stories of shelter dogs that have been given new life and purpose - and turned around the lives of others.

Steve Austin isn't your average dog trainer. In this feel-good, yarn-laden memoir he shares amazing stories from a career of rescuing and training shelter dogs to become a crack force of K9s, culminating in his work for the Young Diggers program, which pairs specially trained dogs with returned Diggers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and more, with astonishing results.

A down-to-earth Aussie larrikin of a bloke with a gift for telling a great yarn, Steve Austin trains extraordinary, elite dogs for vital missions internationally in the fields of drug enforcement, environmental protection and much more. From drug detection to penguins, cane toads and even truffles, and from the icy conditions of Macquarie Island to the LAPD, if you need something detected, Steve's got a dog for that. And a yarn to tell!

©2016 Steve Austin (P)2016 Bolinda Health Mental Health
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Having had personal experience of many of these working dog specialisations since the early 1970's and the gradual development and acceptance of positive reinforcement techniques as the first and main option. The author of this book has used and proved the value of these methods throughout his very extensive career.

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