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Summary: Also helpful to kids training their puppies, too!
Review: Hello! I am a twelve-year old that recently found this book in my public library. I don't have a puppy, yet, but reading this book helped me to understand the mind of the dog. I think it's so cool you can start training your puppy as soon as you bring him home!
Several times I have considered switching my training books to more faster methods, but in the end, many people find out that the "fast" methods don't work. It's better to take your puppy's training slow, I mean, if you're lazy and can't take fifteen minutes of your time every day for eight weeks to train your dog, then you shoudn't own a puppy at all.
The book itself, considered by many people "boring", is actually very awesome! The little cartoons and comic strips found inside made me laugh my head off. The whole book has a light, humorous plot to it, which made the book appeal to me in the first place.
So, trash your other training books and the little electric collars and the rolled up newspapers and start reading "Training your Dog". I am so excited to start training MY puppy with this book!
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Summary: Humane Training By the Best!
Review: Hello! I'm An obedience trainer and instructor for obedience titles at AKC Obedience trials! This book might be older than some but take my advice! This book is written by an experienced trainer and handler. Most of all, I have trained several canine's by the methods listed in this book, and they do work. I have shown canine's, and won CD tiles at AKC events by using these methods, and have documented proof! Mrs. Fisher, which is one of the authors, holds a degree in animal psychology and gives you an in depth look into the mind of the canine...The book has great details in the why's of different methods of, reading your dog, and trying to understand why he thinks the way he does! On my very first obedience trial for an Obedience title, the dog got his first Qualification for CD Title when he turned 6 months of age. By using the methods in this manual he recieved his CD Title by the time his 3rd Show rolled around. It's a very good manual for both, the beginning trainer, and experienced trainer alike!!! My highest recommendations go out on this book!!!
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Summary: It really works!!!
Review: Hello! I'm training my Golden Retriever puppy with this book, and Volhard & Fisher's training methods have worked wonders!!! My puppy, at four months of age, has been taught to sit on command, heel on command, and down on command. You can also teach your dog signals for the commands you want them to do, which can come in handy if you're talking on the telephone or chatting with a friend while walking your puppy. The main idea Volhar and Fisher teach you during this book is "positive reinforcement", which is a really handy training method to use. If their methods can work on my stubborn, rambunctious, sly Golden Retriever puppy, this book can definetly perform miracles with YOUR dogs!!!
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Summary: It really works!!!
Review: Hello! I'm training my Golden Retriever puppy with this book, and Volhard & Fisher's training methods have worked wonders!!! My puppy, at four months of age, has been taught to sit on command, heel on command, and down on command. You can also teach your dog signals for the commands you want them to do, which can come in handy if you're talking on the telephone or chatting with a friend while walking your puppy. The main idea Volhar and Fisher teach you during this book is "positive reinforcement", which is a really handy training method to use. If their methods can work on my stubborn, rambunctious, sly Golden Retriever puppy, this book can definetly perform miracles with YOUR dogs!!!
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Summary: Also helpful to kids training their puppies, too!
Review: I have trained dogs for many years (service dogs, obedience dogs, hunting dogs, people's pets) and this is always the first book I recommend. It is clear straight forward and effective. A great book for students to take home and practice with or for a new dog owner.
That is not to say there are not other ways to train, but this works. My own personal style includes food motivation especially with puppies and play training with older pups and dogs. Other favorites to read with this are Mother Knows Best and Play Training Your Dog.
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Summary: Oldie and Goodie
Review: I have trained dogs for many years (service dogs, obedience dogs, hunting dogs, people's pets) and this is always the first book I recommend. It is clear straight forward and effective. A great book for students to take home and practice with or for a new dog owner.
That is not to say there are not other ways to train, but this works. My own personal style includes food motivation especially with puppies and play training with older pups and dogs. Other favorites to read with this are Mother Knows Best and Play Training Your Dog.
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Summary: Harmless, but outdated methods.
Review: The Volhard system isn't particularly harsh, but the corrections involved in it are unnecessary in this day and age. We're better able to use learning theory now, and books like this are useful only as historical documents. There is a reliance on physical prompts in this book and others by Volhard that result in a dog who waits for the collar pop before he responds.In addition, the so-called motivation of the "motivational" method isn't motivating for most dogs at all! I've seen dogs trained this way, and results are a long time in coming. For many dogs, they don't come at all. Give me something the dog really wants, and I'll get the same behaviors in days it takes months to get with this method! Better choices, available from Amazon.com, are Andrea Arden's *Train Your Dog the Lazy Way,* Ian Dunbar's *How to Teach a New Dog Old Tricks,* Karen Pryor's *Don't Shoot the Dog,* and Jean Donaldson's *Culture Clash.* Again, it's not a harmful book. It's just not very useful. Elizabeth TeSelle, Paws Plus Dog Training
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Summary: Still one of the best
Review: This is an "old fashion" dog training method - give a command once, physically place dog in position, and if required physically hold dog in position until released. It seems harsh to some people, but it is working for me where gentler methods have failed. I picked this book up because it is used in the 8 week obedience class I just started. I tried home obedience for 6 weeks after reading 2 or 3 "treat/praise motivational" method books (no hands on the dog), including "Teach Your New Dog Old Tricks". For MY DOG the "treat" methods were really frustrating for both of us. After weeks and countless hours of training she would sit (not on command) and look for a treat - she new she got a treat when she sat but not what "sit" meant! After only 1 hour of class and 3 days of "homework" (about 30min to 1 hour a day) out of this book, she sits (right away), holds the sit for 1 min+ until released, holds a down for 5 min+ until released and is well on her way to heeling and holding a "down" for 30min. If you are having trouble with the "modern" training methods, this book is a MUST. (by the way, my dog is an extremely submissive, some what timid English Springer Spaniel)
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