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Sep 9, 2025, 6:42:11 PMSep 9

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Hello Book Club Friends,

We’re pleased to announce that the next Guide Dog Book Club guest author will be renowned dog trainer and featured Whole Dog Journal training editor Pat Miller! Pat will be joining us to discuss her book, The Power of Positive Dog Training, on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. Eastern.

As always, this discussion is open to everyone in the guide dog community and we’d love you to join the conversation.

Zoom details are below. Also, we’d encourage you to submit questions in advance by emailing them to guidedog...@gmail.com.

About the Book From Amazon:

In this book, experienced dog trainer Pat Miller gives you the positive training tools you need to ensure that you and your dog share a lifetime of fun, companionship, and respect. By following her step-by-step, six-week basic training program, you'll learn how to develop a relationship with your dog based on friendship and positive reinforcement, not fear and uncertainty.

Book Links:

Audible.com: Amazon.com: The Power of Positive Dog Training (Audible Audio Edition): Pat Miller, Susan Boyce, Tantor Audio: Books

Amazon print/Kindle:

The Power of Positive Dog Training: Miller, Pat: 9781630262228: Amazon.com: Books

Bookshare.org: The book is also available on Bookshare as an audio file. You can find the download for the file here.

From the publisher:

The Power of Positive Dog Training: 2nd Edition — Turner Publishing

More About Pat Miller, CBCC-KA, CPDT-KA

As a child, Pat was the one who taught the family dog to sit, lie down, and jump over broomsticks in the living room. Her professional life has always involved animals, first as a horse trainer in Wisconsin, then for 20 years as a Humane Officer at the Marin Humane Society in California, and most recently as a Certified Professional Dog Trainer and Behavior Consultant. She launched her own dog training company on the West Coast in 1996 and relocated to the east coast. In 2004, Pat moved to the 80-acre campus in Fairplay, Maryland, where she currently lives.

Pat received her CPDT-KA certification as a professional dog trainer from the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers in September of 2001, one of the first 136 trainers in the world to attain this title, and her CBCC-KA a few years later.

Pat shares her Fairplay home with husband Paul, and their two dogs (Sunny and Kaizen); three cats (Viva, Blue and Monkey); four horses and an extended furry and feathered family.

You can read more about Peaceable Paws and Pat on her website.

Message from the Book Club Team:

We’ve all witnessed firsthand the love and devotion that guide dogs bring to our lives, so we started this group in May of 2023. To date, the team has hosted eight informative forums with plans for many more.

In addition, to help keep us in touch and encourage conversations in the virtual world, we’ve created an email list serve just for the Guide Dog Book Club community. We have more than 125 members. To join the list, send an email to: guidedogbookc...@groups.io

Happy reading and wagging!

The Guide Dog Book Club Team

guidedog...@gmail.com

or guidedogboo...@groups.io.

Zoom Details:

Ann Chiappetta is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Guide Dog Book Club with Guest Pat Miller

Time: Oct 15, 2025, 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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