Doctor Dunbar's Good Little Dog Book by Ian Dunbar

Doctor Dunbar's Good Little Dog Book by Ian Dunbar

This little book is intended primarily as a brief but comprehensive guide to puppy training, containing information about socialization, temperament training and behavior modification as well as tips for teaching basic manners. Dr. Dunbar's lure/reward training techniques are certainly not limited to puppies. On the contrary, they have become the method of choice for instructing good-natured, but otherwise uneducated adult dogs. Our best friend-the domestic dog - is a social animal and so, it would be unfair and antisocial not to train him. How else could we communicate? With ear positions and tail wags? Luckily, dogs can easily learn our language. if we teach them Basically, training comprises teaching dogs ESL - English as a Second Language - so that our dogs can understand human words for their doggy behaviors and actions. Lure/reward training is de rigeur for teaching a wide variety of animals, including lions, tigers, killer whales, and grizzly bears. Over a hundred years ago, similar reward-based methods were the accepted practice for training all dogs and puppies. Unfortunately, in the twentieth century, the Trainers from The Dark Side inflicted a harsher regime of laborious, on-leash, push-pull, squish-squash, narrow-brained methods on unsuspecting owners and their dogs. Sadly, domination was the focus and the poor defenseless dog was viewed as an adversary in the training arena. Why treat your best friend like your worst enemy? Welcome back to the historically-proven, so-old-that-it's-new-again, natural, common-sense and enjoyable way to train your dog - off-leash, lure/reward, fun and games, dog-friendly dog training. Dr. Dunbar's training techniques are altogether quicker, easier, gentler, more effective, and certainly considerably more enjoyable for you and your dog. Lure/reward training techniques work like a treat

Dr Ian Dunbar PhD, BVetMed MRCVS DogStarDaily.com Dr Ian Dunbar is a veterinarian, animal behaviorist, and dog trainer who earned his veterinary degree and a Special Honors degree in Physiology and Biochemistry from the Royal Veterinary College (London University), as well as a doctorate in animal behavior from the Psychology Department at UC Berkeley, where he studied the evolution of social hierarchies and dog training. AFTER You Receive Your Puppy, How To Teach A New Dog Old Skills, and the SIRIUS(R) Puppy Training video are among his many books and videos on puppy/dog behavior and training. Dr. Dunbar created and taught SIRIUS(R) Puppy Training, the world's first off-leash puppy socialization and training sessions, in 1982. Following that, he founded and established the Animal Behavior Section of the San Francisco SPCA, the American Kennel Club's Gazette Behavior column, which he published for seven years, and the K9 GAMES(R), which began in San Francisco in 1993 and are now hosted annually in Japan and France. For five seasons, he hosted the popular UK television series Dogs With Dunbar, and he has been on a variety of radio and television shows, including the Today Show in the United States and Dash Village in Japan.

Dr. Dunbar has also served as a consultant on a number of films, including feature films, documentaries, and animation (including Pixar's UP), and he has presented twice at the prestigious eg Conference. Dr. Dunbar has presented during 1000 seminars and workshops for dog trainers and veterinarians throughout the world in an effort to popularize off-leash puppy socialization classes, temperament modification, and owner-friendly and dog-friendly dog training over the past 35 years. Dr. Dunbar was admitted into the Dog Fancy Hall of Fame in 1993, with four of his heroes, James Herriot, Konrad Lorenz, Lassie, and Balto, after founding the Association of Pet Dog Trainers. Dr. Dunbar is currently the President of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers Foundation, the Top Dog of the Center for Applied Animal Behavior, and the Vice President of www.dogstardaily.com, a free online, multi-media puppy-raising and dog-training website.

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ISBN 13	9781888047028
ISBN 10	188804702X
Title	Doctor Dunbar's Good Little Dog Book
Author	Ian Dunbar
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	James & Kenneth Publishers
Year published	2012-08-20
Number of pages	144
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.