Expert Obedience Training for Dogs [Hardcover]

Winifred Gibson Strickland (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 5, 1988

Here is world-famous Winifred Gibson Strickland’s comprehensive and authoritative manual on how to train your dog. Learn how to communicate with your dog so you can train him or her successfully through Novice, Open, and Utility exercises and Tracking.

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Expert Obedience Training for Dogs Here is world-famous Winifred Gibson Strickland's comprehensive and authoritative manual on how to train your dog in a newly revised edition. In Expert Obedience Training for Dogs, Third Revised Edition, Strickland describes the methods that have made her competition record the greatest in dog obedience history. Complete with over 150 photographs and easy-to-follow instructions, Expert Obedience Training for Dogs covers all aspects of training and competition, from choosing a puppy to housebreaking through all the phases of formal training needed to expertly handle a dog in the American Kennel Club Obedience Trials. Strickland demonstrates how to communicate with your dog so you can train him or her successfully, and her humane approach to dog training applies to all breeds of dogs, large and small. Instructions are included for the Novice, Open, and Utility exercises, in addition to Tracking—with helpful tips to make training as rewarding as possible for both trainer and dog. A special section is included for those questions that constantly crop up during training practice. Strickland's methods are proven. Her training record is impeccable, and she has successfully trained thousands of handlers and their dogs. Whether the goal is a healthy and happy well-mannered pet or an obedience prize-winner, this complete manual is a must for trainers, handlers, and all dog-owners.

From the Back Cover

The Latest Edition of a Classic Dog Training Book

Learn how to communicate more effectively with your dog using the time-tested training method of the most successful Obedience competitor in history.

Winifred Strickland?s humane, commonsense approach to dog training applies to all breeds of dogs, large and small. And now it?s updated to include training for the latest AKC Obedience exercises.

Complete with helpful training tips, answers to frequently asked questions, and more than 170 photographs, this is an indispensable resource for everyone?pet owners, Novice competitors, Open enthusiasts, Utility contenders, and Obedience instructors.
A Howell Dog Book of Distinction --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 302 pages
• Publisher: Howell Book House; 3rd Revised Edition edition (January 5, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 002615000X
• ISBN-13: 978-0026150002
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,795,654 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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100 of 100 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Book On Training Obedience And Beyond!, September 26, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Expert Obedience Training for Dogs (Hardcover)

This book outlines exactly how to train your dog, from picking a puppy, teaching her tricks that will be built upon in formal training, how to ride in a car, how to swim, and how to flawlessly train novice, open, utility, tracking, brace-work, finding lost objects and even how to train your dog to carry the groceries in.

But, this book isn't a load of useless fluff - at its core is how to train your dog to perform with precision. There are no gimmiks like ear pinches or clickers. It is training boiled down to the core of what you need. This isn't to say that there aren't any details - it is the many *important* details that allows one to train with such perfection. Strickland suggests that you read each chapter over several times before you begin training that section.

My dog and I converted from clicker training a few months ago and after a month researching and method-shopping, I stpped here, at this book. I have never looked back. My dog heels with precision, her head high and her tail waving, exited but controlled on the fast, trotting on the normal, and prancing with exitement on the slow(she can't wait for me to speed up and run around, but she never breaks). She drops on signal or command, and stays beautifully. Although we are working on fly-bys on the recall, her method of making a shute with your hands and guiding yor dog into a streight sit(no collar corrections needed, just a light tap on the rump to remind her to sit quickly)s allowing us to swiftly over come this problem. She is almost ready to compete in novice. There is an answer for everything in this book - we haven't run up against a problem that she hasn't had a solution for... I honestly suggest it to anyone getting a dog, pup or adult, pet or obedience prospect. You won't be sorry.

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Basics and beyond, November 20, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Expert Obedience Training for Dogs (Hardcover)

Wynn Strickland's method is dog training for the thinking person. It logically outlines a procedure for working from the ground up, WITH your dog's natural proclivities rather than against them. A wonderful companion book to the New Skete Monks' "How to be Your Dog's Best Friend," it takes the next step toward precision training for the ring.

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Obedience training by an expert, July 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Expert Obedience Training for Dogs (Hardcover)

I have trained a number of dogs by the Strickland method by using this book. It is easy to follow and uses a humane method. No spike collars and other gimmiks.