Natural Dog Training
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Natural Dog Training is about how dogs see the world and what this means in regards to training. The first part of this book presents a new theory for the social behavior of canines, featuring the drive to hunt, not the pack instincts, as seminal to canine behavior. The second part reinterprets how dogs actually learn. The third section presents exercises and handling techniques to put this theory into practice with a puppy. The final section sets forth a training program with a special emphasis on coming when called.
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This training guide has an interesting theory about dog behaivour being based entirely on the hunting drive, but I don’t agree with some of the methods.
Ten years ago, I trained a dog using the “shock” method (corrections on the leash and an electrical shock collar) and will never use it again. I feel that is is abusive. I was training the dog with a trainer that charged close to $2,000.00 to teach me how to abuse my dog. Any time you jerk a leash against a dogs neck you are risking cervical injury. My dog, Bear, continued to have severe behavior problems that I now know were due to these antiquated training methods.
I finally had a behavior specialist (doggie psycologist) come to my house to work with the dogs. She recommended the following books and helped me with some basic positive-reinforcement training methods. Bear’s behaviour improved that afternoon. We recently lost hime to renal failure, and at the time of his death, he was the most gentle dog I’ve ever known.
I would recommend “The Dog Whisperer” and “The Culture Clash” (Jean Donaldson) for training without punishment.
Rating: 2 / 5
Natural Dog Training
How anyone let alone the supposed”dog trainer” author can call this book natural dog training I don’t know!! I’m a dog trainer myself and there is no way ever that I would use any of his so called “natural” dog training methods!! How can prong collars and the use of electric collars in dog training be considered natural. I wonder without the use of these barbaric tools could Kevin Behan even train a dog. Has he ever heard of compassion! How can he happily write about “training” using these torturous tools? Come on America wake up quit looking for the quick fix, it’s generally done by using harsh methods. If you love your dogs look at the up to date training methods using gentle, kind, motivational methods, not these methods where you have to strike fear mentally or physically into a dog before you can get him to do what you want.
Rating: 1 / 5
Natural Dog Training
I have now been reading this book for about three weeks and can’t get through it. It’s content is of very high interest and surely some “AHA” exclamations from me when I am getting the point. It is a great book for people who are more interested in reading then getting a few picture hints. There are no illustrations in this book what so ever and I probably finding it a bit boring as it feels like I am reading a novel and not a dog training book. So if you are like me and likes a bit of illustrations don’t go for this book, If you like reading only you will love this book.
Rating: 4 / 5
Natural Dog Training
I got this book based on the reviews provided here. I was very disappointed with the book. If you are into the more humane method of dog training, positive reinforcement, this book is NOT for you. This books continually talks about shocking the dog to correct a behavior. Not in the electrical sense, although “that could easily be worked into this discussion.” The equipment that this books recommends are flat collars, heavy choke collars and pinch collars. I do not prefer to torture my dog into a “correct” behavior. I recommend McConnell, Rogerson, or King’s books over this one.
Rating: 1 / 5
Natural Dog Training
It’s kind of a “use the dog’s drive” way of training. It’s pretty cool but reminds me of hippie parenting–work with the dog’s instincts without condemnation–and it didn’t entirely work for my dog. The author doesn’t believe that a dog might just be hyper. To explain, I have a blue heeler and his drive keeps going and going, and eventually I needed more advice on how to calm him down when in the presence of other dogs. Unfortunately this book isn’t geared for a special needs dog like mine, but I think this book would work well for mellower breeds. I did learn about the impportance of play training, so it’s a worthwhile book.
Rating: 3 / 5
Natural Dog Training