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Dogwise: The Natural Way to Train Your Dog

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Dogwise is an amazingly practical guide to training. It gives an insight to dog psyche and is very easy to follow. Training a dog a command takes no more than fifteen minutes, that's my own personal practical and successful experience. You can also help your dog learn other commands based on the same techniques given here, you'll become innovative. The illustrations are great but the number of photographs should have been more. Whatever dogwise is a book that can turn your dog from scratch to a complete police dog in no more than three months. Take my word for it! I strongly recommend dog lovers to give it a try; they and their dogs will both be happy and better off.

I actually had the chance to spend time at a seminar that John Fisher put on at the Humane Society. Before his death, he was working very hard to show owners/trainers how to work with their dogs and not use the standard dominance/punishment method. Unfortuantely a previous reviewer must not have read the whole book. You introduce the discs slowly and you are simply dropping them when you introduce them (from a distance of you knee to the floor, because you sit when introducing these) Later when working distance exercises you may toss them near a dog as a distraction...but nothing more. His video show the steps much better. "Training dogs in the human pack" As he states in the book, to get a better understanding of how the discs work he advises you read his other books, this book does not go into full detail. Overall I enjoyed reading Dogwise. They shaped the dogs behavior with NO aggression or punishment. They made the dog figure things out on his own and in a very short period of time. It's great reading if you want to undersatnd how your dog learns and what you can do to teach them in a positive way.

Want to train your dog? This is the easiest to understand method on the market!

the Customer who reviewed it in 2002, i agree, must not have read the book - just a blurb or excerpt.
Bark B*uster uses thrown-objects as a startle-method, while training basics and in B-Mod. bagged-throw-chains are issued to clients;
one BB-ex-client was very upset by the side-FX of water-balloons,
thrown *At* their 10# 6-month-old dog - that is far, far different
than a conditioned aversive sound/interruptor.

the primary focus is on building trust and enthusiasm, and managing the dog to goof-proof the training - the dog is set-up to succeed, then rewarded for success, and that success is repeated in more and more demanding settings, with greater and greater challenges and distractions.

- terry pride, APDT-Aus, apdt#1827, CVA, IPDTA, TDF

What an awful approach, if the dog ignores a command you scare him/her into action by throwing noisy metal discs at him/her.

There are so many positive ways to train dogs there is no reason to scare them into action.