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 enlarge | Author: Joel M. Mcmains
Publisher: Howell Book House
Category: Book
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 323811
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0876055102
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.70887
UPC: 021898055101
EAN: 9780876055106
ASIN: 0876055102
Publication Date: November 15, 1992
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 a sensible, sensitive, and clear training guide August 13, 1998
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
joel mcmains writes a sensible, sensitive guide to serious dog training. His outlook on dogs is neither macho nor fuzzy-wuzzy. his instructions are clear and well illustrated with photographs, and his prose style is entertaining. this is a great book for beginners and for anyone looking for no-nonsense help with obedience training and,as the title suggests, thinking like a dog.
Worth every cent you pay for it!!! April 25, 1998
thollar@frontiernet.net (Rochester, NY)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is by far and away the best dog training manuel I have ever read. Unlike many trainers who simply give you their meathods and leave it at that, McMains takes the time to explain the whys behind his meathods. The author also emphsizes that bonding, not training, is most important: the former should not be sacrificed for the sake of the latter. I recommend this book to every dog owner I meet that is having trouble training their dogs, and many who are not. Once you have read this I am sure you will be able to say the same. It is worth every cent you pay for it!!!
Solid, relationship-based training advice June 5, 1997
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
McMains is a dog lover, first and foremost. He takes great pains to emphasize that dogs are friends and comrades, not employees or slaves, and should be treated with the respect and love they deserve. In the heat of training, many people (even many trainers) seem to forget that the reason they originally got a dog was not to do a straight sit or a snappy recall, but rather to fill out their world with a new friend. I don't know a friend in existence who would tolerate what some trainers advocate in the name of "training." His method is not compulsion-free, but it is centered around the dog VOLUNTEERING behaviors, rather that being yanked/forced into them repeatedly. He discusses how to use the dog's natural compulsions/drives to encourage the behaviors the team is shooting for, as well as ways of solidifying those responses under REALISTIC distraction conditions. The most telling point about the book's organization is that it doesn't adhere slavishly to the standard AKC Novice routines, but rather focuses on skills and attitudes that the non-competitor will find most necessary/useful around the home, which is where all dogs, competitor or not, spend most of their time. Make no mistake, a McMains-trained dog will reach its full competitive potential, but McMains' focus is where it should be, on the 99.9% of the dog's life spent outside the ring. In a world where millions of dogs are put to sleep in shelters each year, primarily for "temperament problems" (which can be interpreted as the owner crying "I don't know how to deal with this dog!"), a book with this much compassion and intelligent information on how to understand and relate to your own dog is invaluable. The problem is not that there are too many dogs in this country, it's that there are too many OUT OF CONTROL dogs in this country. If McMains has his way, that won't be the case forever.
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