Effective Dog Training – Ian Dunbar
October 20, 2012 by admin
Filed under Puppy Training Video
Noted veterinarian and dog trainer Dr. Ian Dunbar offers a few of the “million different ways” to train a dog, outlining three simple strategies. EG is the celebration of the American entertainment industry. Since 1984, Richard Saul Wurman has created extraordinary gatherings about learning and understanding. EG is a rich extension of these ideas – a conference that explores the attitude of understanding in music, film, television, radio, technology, advertising, gaming, interactivity and the web – The Entertainment Gathering Dr. Ian Dunbar is a veterinarian, animal behaviorist, and writer. Dr. Dunbar received his veterinary degree and a Special Honors degree in Physiology & Biochemistry from the Royal Veterinary College (London University) and a doctorate in animal behavior from the Psychology Department at the University of California in Berkeley, where he spent ten years researching olfactory communication, the development of hierarchical social behavior, and aggression in domestic dogs. Dr. Dunbar has written numerous books, including How To Teach A New Dog Old Tricks, the Good Little Dog Book and a series of Behavior Booklets: separate educational booklets on each of the most common pet behavior problems. Additionally, Dunbar has hosted eleven videotapes on puppy/dog behavior and training, including SIRIUS ® Puppy Training, Training Dogs With Dunbar and Every Picture Tells A Story. All his videos have won a variety of awards.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Just bought Ian Dunbar’s book. He seems to talk so much sense.
Okay, Cesar heads: I’m sure that Cesar is an excellent trainer and if you have looked at his in depth method I imagine its much like Ian Dunbars, just with canine psychobabble thrown in. But if you just watch “The Dog Whisperer”, you don’t know HALF of what he does with those cases. Believe me, if AP showed the hours he AND his clients worked with the dogs, you’d probably be too bored. He doesn’t fix everything in 15 minutes any more than Dr. Dunbar.
I went to a seminar of his last year in Orlando .. He knows a lot about training but little about behavior … Gave me less than helpful answers to my questions 🙁
Dr Ian Dunbar is wonderful. He’s so simple, his methods work and easy, humans like drama and complicated things and THAT’S what screws up dogs.
I really doubt this guy is one to give advice.
Stop hatin’ on Ian. He obviously doesn’t specialise in the types of dogs Cesar works with. If you have a moderately well-mannered dog with minor problems, go consult Ian Dunbar. If you have a dog with major problems, go consult Cesar Millan. Simple as that.
I’m a huge fan of Cesar Millan, but I don’t like the way he treats dogs with fear of objects/places. ):
I trust Ian Dunbar in that department. (:
No dog trainer or training method is perfect. Different people specialise in different things.
We just have to find what’s good for which dog.
I had red many books as I wanted to train well my dog and do not hurt him neither fiscal nor psychical way and all you say it is RIGHT!!
You’re a fucking idiot.
and aggression towards the object/dog/person. Therefore, the problem will escalate from there, including the dog showing its aggression towards you instead. Ian dunbar is right on with his thinking. Millan is flashy but ultimately creating more problems for the dog and owner in the future.
This guy is hilarious and very true and honest. Cesar takes care of dogs in 2 hours because he hurts them. If a child is afraid of the dark, you cannot get them to love it in 2 hours. You can get them to love it in several weeks however. However, if you continually choke or kick them when they show signs of fear, you could probably get them to stop showing signs of fear. However, they will still be scared. It is the same with a dog. The dog will feel trapped and be unable to express their fear
I love this video. it is so funny and so true.
Punishment on a traumatized or abused animal is counterproductive. Think about what you are saying: Hey dog, you were physically abused before and are now traumatized, so to, “cure” you of that, we’re going to use more physical punishment. That doesn’t even make a tiny bit of sense. Nobody would treat an abused and traumatized child by smacking it around when it makes a mistake. Why would you think that would work on any other animal?
I find it amusing how people trumpet research and science as being the basis for how dogs should be trained now…cause science says it’s bad. Cause research says it’s unhealthy.
Makes me wonder if some of you even know how skewed science and research tests are, or how a particular test can be designed to fit a particular hypothesis.
Funny how dogs have been domesticated, trained and handled for centuries but suddenly this new breed of trainers seems to think they have found the right way…
@bluvillain: Actually Police, military, protection and ring sports trainers use a variety of methods. Reward and positive training being one of them. There is still a case to be made for using aversive methods in difficult cases when you need to help the animal or have it destroyed. See…Dunbars methods are fine for normal cases, and for puppies which you might get to eat snacks and behave. But try it with animals that are traumatized or abused…
@Ghune You think he does it in two hours? Prime time TV is cut alot so you only get the ‘action’ it takes him longer than two hours.
Besides if your being aggressive towards me and I stand there for two hours with a rope around your neck and kick you every time you do something I don’t like.
Pretty soon you’de behave for me aswel.
Doesn’t mean i’ve trained you. Just bullied you into submission.
Why would any educated animal behavior expert put themselves in a cage with two dogs that are both aggressive? The point of any good training is to set the animal up for success. Creating the canine version of ultimate fighting would be ridiculous. Police, military, protection, and ring sport trainers use the methods Dr. Dunbar is promoting. Your attitude makes it clear why you would have a dog that turned aggressive in the first place.
Someone put this pompous gasbag into a cage with two aggressive male rots and lets see if he can calm them down by feeding them treats or repeating, “Rover Sit…Sit…Sit”.
All this academic, quasi intellectual hogwash is fine when you’re in a lecture hall but it doesn’t cut the mustard when you’re actually dealing with difficult cases.
This video clip was HILARIOUS!! 🙂 Thanks for posting it! 🙂
You are amazing!
I can’t stand it when people don’t understand dog training
EX: A lady had a choke chain on her Doberman (I don’t really like them but I prefer them over other training collars)
But here’s the problem, the dog was doing a PERFECT heel and she continued to “snap” the collar so the dog would continue behaving. So she was punishing the dog for behaving well. Really makes you think.
nice examples. Is this an effective dog training or and effective training for dog owners what to change to get an obedieny dog? Great to hear an other story. I use this video for my website meandmydogtips. Thank you for sharing!
“and then it gets woooooors.” haha this guy is so funny!!
domestic dogs in the wild are scavengers, not hunters, and are fairly solitary, like most scavengers. You’re thinking of wolves.
Very good video. Interesting guy.
– One still doesn’t have to use force when dealing with extreme cases. People, please read the Position Statement on Dominance at the AVSAB web page. One of the first things you learn in Psych 101 is the difference between authoritarian, authoritative, and indulgent.. Positive trainers, contrary to Cesar’s psychobabble, do not indulge their dogs. They teach them how to learn. It’s the Cesar minions who parrot him, because they’ve neither read nor understood the real research.