Esta obra muestra el modo de incorporar el eficaz método de Jan Fennell en cada uno de los aspectos que conlleva poseer una mascota, desde introducir a un perro en su nuevo hogar y manejarlo en público, hasta afrontar problemas de comportamiento.
This is a dangerous way of training that was debunked a decade ago by modern canine research and science. Yes, I used to believe that this was the way forward, by having dog trainers teach me these methods, all unsuccessful with my late Springer Spaniel and having attended one of Jan's courses. Now I have new dogs and have been taught modern, positive reinforcement and reward based methods, the science behind it, with amazing results that don't make my dogs' lives miserable. This sort of training Jan Fennell is still advocating, is detrimental to the dog, psychologically damaging, induces stress responses that prevents learning and makes the dogs life miserable. It also increases the risk of fear aggression. As far as I am aware, she has no formal dog training qualification and if she had, she would be updating her skills by now, not teaching her disciples to train in the same way, causing more suffering for dogs and their families as a result. Look at books by Jean Donaldson, she's an outstanding Behaviourist that has been in the field for over 20 years, but updates her knowledge and skills frequently, which any genuine, good dog trainer would, who cared about and respected dogs.
Some helpful advice in establishing leadership especially with rescue or troubled dogs. Plenty of war stories but a little bit on the twee side. Would be interesting to see more on overcoming dominance especially in older dogs.
Read this book years ago, lent it out and never got it back (never lend a book). So I have purchased it again. We have the worlds best dog. I think this book gets some credit for that.
How can you not want to use this technique after reading y my handsMs. Fennell's book.
I'm a dedicated fan having read both the original The Dog Listener and now this more practical based one. I really wish I could lay my hands on her series referred to for television as I would like my husband to engage with this too, but could never get him to read the book/s. I've already started employing the techniques with promising results so far (after only a day), but may end up doing it single-handed as my husband is not "buying in" to the concepts wholeheartedly.
Thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. Some of the training asked of us went against the grain at first as being told to ignore our excited giddy dog was the last thing we want to do when we got home from work, but to establish the role of leader it was important to do. My partner & I brought a beautiful lab from a rescue centre into our home a few months ago & he had issues from day one. Here's hoping using some of Jan's techniques will help him relax more.