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 enlarge | Author: Jane Killion
Publisher: Dogwise Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 8732
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 1929242441
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.70887
EAN: 9781929242443
ASIN: 1929242441
Publication Date: June 22, 2007
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 Pigs do have wings September 5, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
As the owner, partner and guardian of a 'difficult' breed I was enthralled as I read the great advice in this book. For those of us who are training-idea-challenged when working with one of the so called 'hard to train' breeds this book is jam packed with superb tips and explanations, many of which positive reinforcement / clicker trainers will recognize. I particularly liked the section on using breed tendencies to create the behaviours you want rather than always trying to suppress them or replace them with something less comfortable and natural for the dog. The step by step photos are excellent no, ... exceptional and the Piggy Pointers throughout sparkling gems some of which gave me 'duh, of course' moments. Loved it, would recommend it to other 'impossible dog' owners (pun intended).
Rona Adams' review August 28, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is excellent. It is extremely funny since I have 3 dogs that are difficult to obedience train. She makes me feel like she has been to my house and is using my experiences to write this book.
Have a dog who is an independent thinker? August 7, 2007
22 out of 23 found this review helpful
Not sure if your dog might be an independent thinker? Then you may not have a dog from the terrier or hound group. :-) This would include a mixed breed dog with one or more of these in the mix.
Jane nicely brings in teachings from Jean Donaldson, Pamela Dennison, Karen Pryor and Morgan Spector, into a format that is easy to understand and implement with your 'pigs fly' dog(s). Jane explains why you want to start out with shaping rather than just lure your dog into a behavior. How to get your 'pigs fly' to do work with you rather than do their own thing.
Learn how to get those basic behaviors that may have made your 'pigs fly' dog a failure in class and help you both shine in the next dog class you both take.
Thought that agility looked like fun but you were afraid to trust your dog offleash?
Your dog is walking you rather than the other way around?
Get this book and have fun training your 'pigs fly' dog.
If you have a difficult dog who has heretofore resisted training... August 4, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Jane Killion knows about dogs. she lives with a houseful of Bull Terriers, she breeds them, she contributes to dog publications, and her home is the place where people gather together with their dogs for training sessions. Now in "When Pigs Fly!: Training Success With Impossible Dogs", Killion draws upon her many years of personal experience and sophisticated expertise to create a dog training manual that is particularly 'user friendly' and appropriate for the non-specialist general reader seeking to train their animal companion when that companion has a non-compliant mind of its own. Killion's key to training success with independent or seemingly incorrigible dogs is to figure out what they find rewarding and then use those rewards to establish and maintain the behavior desired. "When Pigs Fly!" will teach anyone how to make their dog to willing behave for a reward instead of trying to get away with mischief. Simply stated -- if you have a difficult dog who has heretofore resisted training, the you need your own copy of Jane Killion's "When Pigs Fly!: Training Success With Impossible Dogs".
WHEN PIGS FLY by JANE KILLION July 21, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
It feels like a summer romp through highly amusing tales, inside tips, and fun exercises, but WHEN PIGS FLY has changed me, and my dogs.
I've shed some foolish notions and inconsiderate habits, and the dogs are glad about that. Now they are so sweetly eager when a training session is in the wind. New lines of communication are opening to us.
Well-written and indispensable. This book will surely be regarded as a classic.
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