How to Be Your Dog’s Best Friend: The Classic Training Manual for Dog Owners
July 1st, 2010 | 
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- ISBN13: 9780316610001
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Entirely revised, with a fresh new design and new photographs throughout, this new edition of HOW TO BE YOUR DOGS BEST FRIEND preserves the best features of the original classic and expands the book to cover and include:- new observations about dog behavior (natural behavior as well as problems) drawn from the monks 24 additional years of experience training dogs of all breeds- new trends in training- new equipment (e.g., invisible fences)- new reflections on the ph… More >>
How to Be Your Dog’s Best Friend: The Classic Training Manual for Dog Owners
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I'm Arne Wuensche and my dogs are my best friends. In the beginning they really gave me a hard time, and I was desperate to find some good dog training tips. Luckily for you I'm writing down all the tips I gathered so you will have it much easier.
If you hit your dog, you are abusing your dog. Plain and simple. Cut and dry. To discipline means to teach – not to hit! Hitting is not disciplining. Animals are ours to love – not to abuse. Please do not purchase this book. Buy something that encourages a mutual relationship of respect between you and your dog.
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Animals should NEVER receive negative punishment (physical or mental). Why should you, when the positive reinforcemt methods have poved to work so well and makes your animal obey you out of respect and not out of fear as the negative reinforcement does? The use of negative reinforcemt stems from a lack of true understanding of canine psychology (as it is utterly unnecessary) and a need to be sadistic. As a veterinarian and animal lover, I strongly advise against this book.
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This book is a disgrace! Our dogs are a part of our family. This book suggests beating your dog and instilling fear into him or her. Pass on this one if you can.
The best way to train your dog is through positive reinforcement. I have a labrador who was very diffcult as a young puppy. We called her “Rosemary’s Baby” However, after a few weeks at a local dog obiedience school she is now a changed pup. And it only took a few weeks to see a drastic change. Now she is our angel.
If you are looking for advice on how to train your dog, then find a local dog obeidence school. Two things will happen that you can not get from a book. One your dog will become socialized with other people and dogs and two you will learn from professionals and others in your class who are going through the same thing you are.
As for the monks, “Do onto others as you would want done on to you” If you ever write a book about beating each other into submission, please e-mail me. That one I will buy!
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When my dog was younger, I was advised that the best way to keep him from running into the street and in front of cars was to actually hit him with my car. That’s right, hit my dog with my car- “not too hard, but enough to scare him so he won’t forget it.” That same person gave me this book and said it was the best for dog training. I doubt the car hitting advice is part of this book, but I never did finish reading it. I only needed to read a little to see that instilling fear and punishment were a large part of the Monks “technique”. It was the same mentality as hitting my dog with my car. For me, I feel that there are a lot better ways to train a dog. There are a lot of misinformed people that think positive training means wimpy coddling. Its not, and other commenters here have already cited some books that are good examples.
The shelter system is already overflowing with dogs with “behavior” problems. Are there that many bad dogs? Or are some just the products of well-meaning but inexperienced owners that used heavy-handed punishment “training” because they got bad advice from a bad book?
Incidently, I normally donate any books I’m finished with, but not this one. I didn’t want to be responsible for disseminating it any further. It went straight to the recycling bin, hopefully to be recycled in to something better….. like toilet paper.
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This book is immensely appealing to those with little experience with dogs and little knowledge about them. It makes everything so simple. All the dog needs is some really hard cracks under her chin, enough to make her scream and later cower and tremble at the sight of you. And best of all, one method fits all dogs! You never have to think about a thing. What works for an aggressive, hardheaded dog that barely notices a solid whack is exactly what you use for a sensitive, confused, frightened dog. The monks are not bothered by fine distinctions. Nor do they feel obligated to waste their time by studying and understanding different breeds and different dogs, or by carefully adapting their training methods to the dog. By throwing in a dash of smarmy psychobabble about the joy of relationships with dogs, they even manage to get credit for being “sensitive.” People who understand dogs know better. Different dogs require different methods, and no dog should be brutalized into cowering and trembling at the sight of her “best friend.” But many dog owners desperately want a quick fix to the problems they have created through their ignorance, neglect, or outright mistreatment of their dogs. If the dog gets hurt in the process, so much the better. Revenge is sweet. Therein lies the enduring popularity of this grotesque piece of garbage. However, before you begin to sample the pleasures of smacking your dog around and hurling her to the floor, be forewarned: Plastic surgeons have made a bundle from this book. Alpha rolls and chin bashing are an excellent way to have a sizable chunk of your face removed, which does rather take the fun out of it . . .
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