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 enlarge | Author: Tamar Geller
Creators: Andrea Cagan, Renee Raudman
Publisher: Tantor Media
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  92 reviews
Sales Rank: 1060435
Format: Audiobook, Cd, Mp3 Audio, Unabridged
Media: MP3 CD
Edition: MP3 Una
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 1400154391
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.70887
EAN: 9781400154395
ASIN: 1400154391
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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The Loved Dog May 28, 2007
Cathy Neff (Cincinnati OH)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great book but I do not agree with all the methods or at least all of them will not work on a puppy and that is what I was looking for was puppy training methods.
 Another Great Oprah Recommendation May 28, 2007
PK (San Francisco CA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
After watching Oprah's show with Tamar Geller I ordered this book for my son and daughter-in-law who have a new shelter puppy that needs help behaving. They have used the book with great results and I have noticed a difference in their dog's behavior also. Highly recommend. As with alot of things, it takes patience and consistency.
Superb! May 27, 2007
Armand W. Micheline III (Seattle, WA.)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a book that will give you new ideas to help create a relationship with your dog that will be lasting and successful. I wish there were more books like this.
I've started using the techniques with my 4 dogs, and we are ALL happier as a result.
already working for me May 14, 2007
E. OBD (South Jersey, United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Good common sense ways to think about how you work with your dogs. I'm only 50 pages into the book but already understand quite a bit more about how my dogs are thinking and therefore using it to help me communicate with them. I'm definitely not a disciplinarian so this non-aggressive method of working "with" them rather than making them "obey" is much more in tune with my personality. I've been trying a few things using some of Tamar's concepts and I've seen some progress already. Now my furry girls are both toward the elderly side so changing habits at this point should be hard but like I said, I have seen some success. I'm looking forward to the rest of the book.
 A light treatment of familiar material May 13, 2007
citywulf (Atlanta, Georgia USA)
70 out of 75 found this review helpful
The first 50 pages of the book speak more about Tamar than about dogs, which has caused some to question whether this is a training book or an autobiography. However, the rest of the book is training. The bio part is light reading, but it doesn't add much to understanding her training philosophy. She talks about learning from watching wolves in the Israeli desert, but doesn't describe those observations in any detail (and what she does mention later suggests she has only a rudimentary understanding of wolf behavior). She talks about her parents' infidelity, which adds nothing to the book. It is short and harmless, however.
Her training section is also fairly lightweight, with short discussions of familiar positive training techniques. I have read dozens of training books, and this one feels like the author took different parts of many books, distilled them down, and put them in her own. Nothing is new, and nothing is discussed in any depth. The barking chapter, for example, only offers one technique. It simply doesn't add anything new to the positive training literature.
A beginner can glean some basics from this book. The methods are positive (though the author is a bit more balanced in that she does use verbal corrections - however, as in much of the book, she doesn't go into any detail describing them; she also mentions the importance of leadership). There is some silliness in here (she praises a dog by saying the behavior over and over in a happy voice - "sit sit sit sit sit" - how does this help the dog? You want your dog to respond to the word "sit" by sitting. Doesn't saying "sit" several times while the dog is actually sitting just confuse the issue? She also perpetuates the "eat something before you feed your dog" myth - unless you're eating from the same carcass, it really isn't important! You are the one providing the food, that's what really matters). But it is harmless silliness, and may lead newbies to other positive training books that have more detail (I highly recommend Outwitting Dogs: Revolutionary Techniques For Dog Training That Work!; [[ASIN:0793805481 Parenting Your Dog; It's Me or the Dog: How to Have the Perfect Pet; and everybody should read The Other End of the Leash).
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