Comments on: Dog Training: The Gentle Modern Method

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:50:58 +0000

This excellent training book offers lots of good sound information on raising and training a puppy or dog. It covers basic and advanced obedience training, housetraining and socialization, as well as the basic principles of operant and classical conditioning. The book offers lots of clear step-by-step photograghs, and easy-to-understand descriptions of each training exercise. I highly recommend this book Rating: 5 / 5

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:10:34 +0000

I really enjoyed this book as it shared my feelings of repect and care for animals. Especially our most domesticated friend the dog. I have used these methods offered in this book and know that they work. I would really love to know if there is an e-mail address for the auther of this book or his Kintala Club as I live in New Zealand and there is not a strong level of support offered here for this kind of practise. Particularly the socalising before tweleve weeks and immunisation. I would recommand this book to anyone considering a puppy or dog and to read it first so they know and understand their responsiblities as a dog owner and for the best they cangive their dog. Yours Helen from New Zealand. Rating: 5 / 5

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:40:00 +0000

I highly recommend this book. It was very useful to me. Each exercise includes pictures to show exactly how it should look, including hand signals. There were several obedience areas where my dog was not responding to the way my obedience instructor was teaching the commands, and some areas that weren’t covered. I tried using the methods in the book, and she responded very quickly and learned the exercises. This book is great for people who don’t want to use harsh methods or who have sensitive dogs. This book is also very useful for training puppies, where only positive reinforcement should be used. The step-by-step directions make it good for beginners. Rating: 5 / 5

By: jonesagain@juno.com

jonesagain@juno.com — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:55:22 +0000

I bought and read this book about 2 weeks before my Queensland Heeler came home. Within 2 days (he was 7 weeks old at the time) he was house trained and would “come” when we called him. Now at 8 weeks I began teaching him to “sit” and “drop”. It literally only took about 5 minutes. I truly believe this is the best method of training a dog. I don’t feel bad because I’m choking him or yelling or anything. He wants to do the exercises he’s been trained to do. As a society we have been misinformed to think we have to train or dogs using archaic, somewhat violent means. I encourage everyone to at least try this method and if it works for you, pass it on to any pet owner you know. We can make happier, less aggressive dogs. Rating: 5 / 5

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:37:15 +0000

David Weston’s method of dog training follows right along in the modern tradition of “operant conditioning,” which I had not heard of before reading this book. Therefore it was not a previous bias which caused me to discount the method as completely inappropriate to dog training! A dog is not a lab rat, to be “shaped” unwittingly by the presence or absence of food. It is disrespectful to your dog to assume so. However, if all you want is the behavior and you don’t care about the rapport, or if you have a particularly sensitive dog that doesn’t respond well to “traditional” methods, this book is an easy to follow manual of how to make it at least appear obedient. Rating: 2 / 5