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 enlarge | Author: Emma Parsons
Publisher: Sunshine Books (MA)
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 15665
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 181
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 8 x 0.7
ISBN: 1890948209
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.70887
EAN: 9781890948207
ASIN: 1890948209
Publication Date: December 2004
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 Fear Aggression October 8, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Excellent book if you have a dog with fear aggression, and still helpful if you have a dog without aggression issues. This book includes basic obedience training techniques using a clicker with step by step techniques, plus includes why it is useful with aggressive dogs. I have a dog who shows some tendencies toward fear aggression with our other older deaf dog. The book has helped me learn how to calm his fear aggression using obedience training and other helpful techniques included in the book.
Excellent Resource for Helping a Fearful Dog February 19, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have used many books in my personal quest to help a dog who is fearful by nature find the world a less frightening place. The techniques that Emma Parsons puts forth in this book have done him a world of good and have given me confidence as his handler.
I recommend this book to anyone who has a fearful dog.
Click to Calm Healing The Aggressive Dog January 9, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Fantastic book and techniques for training aggressive or in many cases reactive (not aggressive) dogs. Gone are the days of confrontational dog training and punishment, the new techniques for positive reinforcement in training work wonders. Emma Parson's book teaches calming techniques to use in stressful situations. Correcting a dog's behavior takes time and patience but it no longer needs to be cruel and traumatic.
 Positive In, Positive Out January 8, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The author offers realistic training tips that families sharing their homes with a dog can use. Few pages wasted on theory -- readers bought the book because they agree with clicker training and Parsons understands this.
However, I would have liked to seen a conclusion, reinforcing what these gentle methods good and final words of encouragement. In addition, it would have been better to have more than one case study anwering the question, "Will this approach work on dogs other than the author's?"
I've been using what I learned and have been better able to manage my dog's leash aggressive. Plenty of tips that will keep me busy for months and years as I revisit them.
 Mixed feelings November 3, 2006
17 out of 42 found this review helpful
Emma Parsons must be given credit for persistence. Yes, she showed that you can treat a fearful, aggressive dog by reinforcing incompatible behavior.
The trouble is that she took six months to begin to get any results, if I remember correctly. (I read the book a month ago.)
The movement to use only reinforcement to change the behavior of dogs is an example of purism. It takes a good thing to a questionable extreme. Dogs in the wild certainly control each other directly, but they never eliminate unadaptive behavior by positive reinforcement of incompatible behavior, and yet dogs have thrived on earth as long or longer than we have. They use punishment.
As long as punishment is only as strong as necessary and no stronger, it can eliminate behavior in a minute, not a year, without damaging side effects. The purists will argue that it may return later, but dogs only live a decade or so, and in the long term, we are all dead.
In the center of my house is a swimming pool, and every dog that I have owned and every dog that has visited me has tried to walk on the floating plastic solar cover and found himself in need of assistance to get out of the pool. None of these dogs has ever attempted this stunt again. I rest my case.
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