The Koehler Method of Dog Training
Product Description
Since its first appearance in 1962, this popular dog training book has gone through 38 printings and sold more than 475,000 copies. The instructions and training approaches given here can be equally successful with groups in a training class environment or for individuals training alone. This new edition presents a pertinent update of AKC Novice obedience requirements. 46 illustrations.
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I ordered this book and never recieved it although my CC was charged for it so if any one can tell me what it says I would appreciate it.
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The Koehler Method of Dog Training
NO WAY, NO HOW. Harsh, cruel methods of dog training are UNNECESSARY and is ANIMAL ABUSE. Read Ceasar Milasn’s books (he’s known as “The Dog Whisperer”), to learn kind, effective leadership skills, in order to properly train your dog to do ANYTHING you want him/ her to do. Learning Caesar Milan’s ways has helped me teach hundreds of dogs to behave, and become housetrained, loving, mindful companions, eager to please their guardians.
The Koehler Method of Dog Training by William R. Koehler IS A WASTE OF TIME, MONEY AND YOU JUST DON’T NEED IT. IT’S ANTQUATED, UNKIND ANIMAL BULLYING. DO NOT BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The Koehler Method of Dog Training
You would never know, if you read only this book, that it could be fun to live with dogs — in Koehler’s world, dogs are sneaky and nasty and always trying to get over on you. His solution to every training problem is to choke, hang, beat, or half-drown the dog (that’s how to handle digging, folks). Oh, did I mention electric shock? Electric shock is very big with Koehler.
Sure, you can produce a dog who’s too scared of you to make a move without permission — but if you’d rather have a joyful, compliant, eager companion, if you’d like to train according to methods proven effective by years of research and practical experience in animal learning, read Pat Miller, Ian Dunbar, Jean Donaldson, Karen Pryor. There’s nothing weak or silly about teaching your dog to work for a living by rewarding the behavior you like. The difference between Koehler and an effective trainer who is also kind is that Koehler’s idea of a “reward” seems to be to let the dog go on breathing. Some of us think life can be more pleasant than that.
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The Koehler Method of Dog Training
This book will give you some really great ideas on how to ABUSE your dog.
I was forced to buy this book at the orientation for an obedience class. I was told not to read ahead but I read the whole book anyway. I never went back to the class.
I suppose Koehler’s methods of choking, beating, and drwoning your dog will help you build a wonderful bond. Perhaps the kind of twisted bond that keeps many battered woman from leaving abusive relationships.
Repulsive.
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The Koehler Method of Dog Training
This book is NOT, I repeat NOT a dog training book. This is a book for abusers. Sure I might look at it if I had the most “vicious” dog in the world, had tried EVERY other method of dog training in the world and it was a choice between this and death to the dog. Koehler’s methods for problem dogs might
are unbeleviable. I was reading reveiws and one said stuff about Koehler’s suggestions for digging holes, chewing, barking. I didn’t beleive it, because it was clearly abuse. So I went to the library and looked at the book. For digging holes it went something like filling the digging hole with water stuffing the dogs head down into it and holding it there until the dog is convinced that he is going to drown. For chewing Koehler said to stuff the chewed object in the dog’s mouth and tape the muzzle together so the dog could not spit it out. I have saved the last for worst, barking. Koehler suggested getting a belt and beating your dog with it when it barked.(If you don’t beleive me go check the book out at the library) Now is that abuse or not? Hmmm…. For tradional trainers I reccommend the Monks of New Skete. For clicker trainiers I reccommend “The Power of Positive Dog Training” and last for people who want positive(not neccesary clicker) I reccommend Ian Dunbar’s work. Last I beg, for the sake of your dogs, not to buy this book. It is very much wrong and and its ideas are abusive.
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The Koehler Method of Dog Training
leave koehler alone you stupid f***ers this guy loved dogs and helped train them for the army yes the army and look who won the war he also trains the dogs for the disney channel and they seem happy enough
i train all my dogs of this method and they are lovly dogs happy to do anything
you must also remeber times were different back then
and anyway if it wasnt for koehler there wouldnt be any dog training
Oh my. This book really brings out the bedwetters in their most vocal form.
Face it, the new age, touchy-feely dog training doesn’t always work. And, when it does work, it is in the very best circumstances.
In some situations, discipline is the only solution. Period.
I’d bet my last dollar that the people who are so horrified at spanking a dog are the same people that are horrified at spanking a child. Before you have a conniption fit, note that I said spank, not beat.
I’ve used Koehler’s methods for many years. It results in well-behaved dogs that are a pleasure to be around and that respect their master. I imagine that ‘master’ is regarded as a neanderthal vestige of male domination and that PC dog trainers now speak in reverent tones of ‘partners’.
Sorry, but I don’t want to have to walk around with a ‘clicker’ and a pocket full of smelly dog treats to have a hope of getting my dog to follow orders. Nope, I’d much rather just issue a command and have them do it. Koehler’s techniques make that attainable.