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What’s Your Theory?

By |2009-02-03T14:42:59-05:00February 3rd, 2009|Categories: Helping fearful dogs|Tags: , , , , , , |

I've been reading a lot of dog training books lately and many trainers provide readers with the reasons their method of training dogs works or makes sense. More often than not it has something to do with wolves, pack behavior, prey drive, alpha animals, etc. Statements are made about what dogs want or need. Most of them leave an owner struggling to sort out whether ...

Attitudes About Training

By |2009-02-01T18:05:36-05:00February 1st, 2009|Categories: Helping fearful dogs|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I found a copy of one of William Koehler's training books in a local used bookstore. He was a trainer that worked in Hollywood, training dogs for films that I watched as a child. Had I known his training techniques then I probably would have cried before the dog got caught in a well or suffered some other fate that was geared to jerking the ...

Pay Attention!

By |2009-01-29T13:54:53-05:00January 29th, 2009|Categories: Helping fearful dogs|Tags: |

In order to teach anyone, anything, you first have to get and keep their attention. This is as true for dogs as it is for people. It's not difficult to get the attention of a scared dog, most can't take their eyes off you. But that attention is based on knowing where you are, much the same way you'd probably like to know the whereabouts ...

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