Training tools for successful dog trainers
August 3, 2012 by admin
Filed under Puppy Training Video
This is an excerpt from the DVD: Perfect Paws in 5 days featuring Jean Donaldson’s Modern Dog Training Methods. You will learn the principles used by professional animal trainers to efficiently build any behavior you can think of to any degree of difficulty you can imagine. Jean Donaldson is the award-winning author of Oh Behave! Dogs from Pavlov to Premack to Pinker; The Culture Clash – A revolutionary new way of understanding the relationship between humans and domestic dogs; MINE! A Guide to Resource Guarding in Dogs; FIGHT! A Guide to Dog-Dog Aggression. Jean founded the San Francisco SPCA Academy for Dog Trainers, which has gained the reputation as the Harvard for dog trainers and behavior counselors. She has lectured to dog trainers in the United States, Canada, the UK, Australia and Japan. Her books have been translated into six languages. Visit jeandonaldson.com
Video Rating: 5 / 5
For more information about this seminar series visit: www.jamesandkenneth.com There are lots of tools that can be valuable during training. Food is the most obvious, but crates, leashes, clickers and toys are also very useful. However, any tool should be viewed as a stepping stone towards the ultimate goal of off-leash, verbal control of your dog, in highly distracting settings without the benefit of tools. Dr. Ian Dunbar explains how to phase out these tools gradually, leaving you with reliable control over your dog under any circumstances. Science-Based Dog Training (with Feeling)
Video Rating: 4 / 5
what type of treat are best if you don”t want your dog to put on weight?
Frisbees and kongs are also a really good idea.
I agree with all that is said but a bribe is technically something that is done that benefits only the giver (the briber). If a mum gives a child an ice cream after finishing the sprouts, then that is not a bribe because the nutritional goodness in the sprouts will benefit the child. So, surely if the dog gets a small piece of his meal after a recall that is not a bribe either?
Working with a 2 1/2 year old kennel dog who was virtually abandoned by her very ill breeder and found that lure reward worked very well to get her started. Used Training the Adult Dog and Training the Companion Dog DVD’s and phased out food with mastery of each of the behaviors. In order to increase socialization, we are now in AKC Novice Obedience, and I hear from other owners that they are in the class because Sirius Puppy Training didn’t work because it relies on food. Stay on message Ian!
Same thing happens when treiners leave a tug toy dangling by their side in a recall. Great videos, loved it
…which is why I don’t use a food pouch.