Recommend a good dog training book?

muckety

We have a 2 year old male springer who we got as a puppy and trained ourselves with the very basics (sit, stay, walk to heel, not to jump up etc). Since we acquired a playmate for him (female springer 6mths old) he has chosen not to obey the basic commands!

I'm guessing this is a dominance/leadership issue but would like to read up and understand more about it so that I can address it properly. So far, we have tried to go back to the basics - alongside training the female pup (who responds well) but have discovered that it doesn't work to train 2 dogs together!

Any recommendations for a good book that will help me here? The ones I have are more about the basic sit-stay commands. Many thanks,

luckat

Don't Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dont-Shoot-Dog-Teaching-Training/dp/1860542387

I came to this when I got a wild collie - I rang a friend who had the most perfectly socialised, wonderful and co-operative dog you've ever met in your life. She said she'd used this book.

Got it and have used it ever since - on dogs, on humans, on myself. And me and my dog have a great time playing training games inspired by it still. She *loves* training games.

CrowdedHouse

This one was recommended to me(from a fellow Lhasa Apso owner)

http://www.amazon.com/Power-Positive-Dog-Training/dp/0764536095/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199880572&sr=8-1