When Pigs Fly!: Training Success with Impossible Dogs [Paperback]

Jane Killion (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 22, 2007

When Pigs Fly!: Training Success with Impossible Dogs

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Dogwise (June 22, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1929242441
• ISBN-13: 978-1929242443
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,695 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #82 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Animal Care & Pets > Dogs

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

49 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pigs do have wings, September 5, 2007

By 

Blulupas (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: When Pigs Fly!: Training Success with Impossible Dogs (Paperback)

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).

48 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Have a dog who is an independent thinker?, August 7, 2007

By 

Tami M. Hawes "tamikat" (Hillsboro, OR USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: When Pigs Fly!: Training Success with Impossible Dogs (Paperback)

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.

34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My dog is a code that this book cracked, February 29, 2008

By 

A reader (New England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: When Pigs Fly!: Training Success with Impossible Dogs (Paperback)

I've read about a thousand training books, some really good, but none good enough to inspire me to write a review. Until this one. I'm raising my first Pigs Fly dog, and even though I'd read a lot about positive training techniques and nothing in this book is really new to me, the focus on this KIND of dog is so helpful. Over and over again Killion would write "I bet your dog does this," or "I bet you've had a hard time training that," and I would think "Yes! That's totally my dog! Someone understands!" Killion leaves out the stuff that doesn't work on these dogs (any approach that relies on their desire to please you, since that's not a huge motivation for them), which helps to avoid the frustration of trying that stuff and failing. She really emphasizes how to figure out what does motivate them (and why) and work with that. The result is effective, but more than that, it's an attitude readjustment. Instead of having a dog who "just doesn't get it," I now have a dog who works differently from my previous ones, and the tools to figure out how he works, and the ability to appreciate his creativity and sense of humor and independence so much more fully now that I'm not fighting them all the time. This book brought a whole new level of harmony and enthusiasm to my relationship with my crazy new coonhound-mix puppy, and we can't thank Jane Killion enough for that.