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The gentle, nonviolent training methods and mysteries of "horse whisperers" have recently enlightened the world's consciousness of nonviolent training methods.
Now, in The Dog Whisperer, trainer Paul Owens offers a compassionate, nonviolent approach to dog training. His spiritual approach links sound training principles with intuitive and effective insights.
Owens' compassionate training methods will help you create an emotional bridge to "plug in" and create a deeper bond with your dog than you thought possible. The Dog Whisperer offers a truly humane, revolutionary, and common sense approach to raising and training your dog.
You will learn:
* Learn "dog speak" the body language and vocalizations needed to communicate with your dog.
* How to train your dog without jerking, hitting, kicking, shocking, or shaking
* How to turn affection, play, toys, praise, and social freedom into powerful rewards.
* Learn five ways to establish a leadership role so your dog will happily follow your lead.
* Eliminate behavioral problems such as jumping, barking, and digging.
* How easy and fun training can be when you use The Nine Ingredients of Reward-Based Dog Training and turn affection, play, toys, praise, and social freedom into powerful rewards.
Customer Review: Cesar Milan groupies, this isn't your book (but try it anyway!)
Nope. This book does not advocate complete physical exhaustion and manipulation as a way to control your "wants to take over the planet" (or at least your house) dog. Dogs have better hearing, better noses, stronger jaws, and are much faster than the average human. They have already WON the physical contest. Why aren't more dogs exercising their superior physicality when people do foolish things, such as jerk them by a chain strung around, of all things, the throat (which most species are primally motivated to protect)? It is because the extremely social canine -- who would much rather fit into your household than be burdened with running it -- has a longer imprint period than just about any animal, and humans (who happen to have the larger, more complex brain), have used that window to success. Dogs are, when properly raised and sometimes even when not, socially inhibited from reacting in what in many cases would be a just plain reasonable (self-protective) manner. Further, it is backward logic to think that intellectual (motivational) training is not useful for larger dogs. The larger the dog, the more harm they can cause should something go wrong, and the less responsible it is teaching them that they should only behave when you use physical tools and manipulation. A dog raised to make the right (preferred) choices will make them whether wearing a choke chain, flat collar, or no collar. Remember, motivational training developed at aquariums and has been widely adopted by zoos, where physical manipulation of species less inclined to put up with us could lead to DEATH. Motivational training should be your FIRST tool -- and when used consistently and compassionately, can be your only tool. So please, for the sake of a species that is socially disposed to give us their all, regardless of what we give them in return, give the true Dog Whisperers in this profession a try.
Customer Review: have fun training your dog
Paul Owens gives a fun way to train your dog using treats and positive reinforcement. Our four month old beagle is learning to sit, stay, lay down and other good skills. Paul recommends cooked chicken (unseasoned) or cheddar cheese as motivational treats used during training. Other treats are recommended in his book and dvd. My children are 8 and 10. They had watched "The Dog Whisperer" on TV with Cesar Milan. While that show is quite entertaining, I found that my kids became very rough with our puppy, and their jerking wasn't effective with him. Paul Owen's nonviolent approach works much better for our family. My husband and I have used "nonviolent" parenting with our kids, and now we are learning a nonviolent approach to working with our dog, thanks to this book.


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