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Train your dog and you've got a better dog for life

Advantages: A well trained dog in all situations
Disadvantages: You need willpower and dedication to succeed

The Dog Listener by Jan Fennell is a dog behavior book which if you follow claims to put your book on the straight and narrow. Jan Fennell claims to have used the skills developed by the horse whisperer Monty Roberts to use the dogs inate desire for alpha dog status, so if you become the alpha male than the dog should obey your every instruction. So the book itself is split into easy chapter designed to reinforce the pack, make you the pack leader ...
...Jan Fennell is according to the authors notes, a trained psychologist, she like Clint Eastwood knows about people (or in Jans life dogs), so establish yourself as the pack leader and the dog will follow, allow it to be the pack leader and you will follow not the dog. So does it work, well the book has easy to follow instructions, such as ignoring your dog when you enter the room which stops the dog dominating you and therefore placing his alpha ...

alderman55 08.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Dog Listener - Jan Fennell

Excellent Guide for giving you a non-problematic dog!

Advantages: Clear, concise training aid.
Disadvantages: Can't think of any! It is a really good book.

...see that should the dog lose his hearing, I will still be able to get him under control without too much trouble. It's early days with this dog, but with the help of this book, I hope to feel happy to introduce him to friends and family! ...

cat136 09.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of It's Me or the Dog: How to Have the Perfect Pet - Victoria Stilwell

now its really true, who love their pet dog very much

Advantages: its more helpful,more informative, resources are original
Disadvantages: very few aspect i say that the instruction are little bit leangthy

from my opinion this book is really true for winning the love of a difficult dog. because he not only write the dogs acts with the human beings but also write the different kind of difficult dogs activities.i think this book is more more helpful who love their pet very much.and also this book is also very informative to the readers. and i also try myself to my dog by this books information. and really i get a positive feed back from my pet dog.from ...

bond7red 04.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Walking Ollie: Winning the Love of a Difficult Dog - Stephen Foster

Cesar's Way , Cesar Millan `The Dog Whisperer'.

Advantages: Very interesting insight into how your dogs mind works
Disadvantages: Not many actual methods of training described in the book

When I first started watching Cesar Millan’s Dog Whisperer program on the National Geographic channel I became a bit obsessed with the program. I recorded every episode on my Sky+ Box and have now seen them all. So I am a big fan. As soon as this book arrived in the post I started to read it that very night. I couldn’t put it down!! Such a great read. It probably helped that I am a big fan of Cesar anyway. But it does give you a great insight into ...
...is a `Dog Psychology’ book, looking at how your dog actually sees the world. Whereas a `Dog Training’ book‘ would look more at teaching your dog commands. Both have there place. Cesar Millan in a Mexican dog behaviour expert who runs a dog psychology centre in Los Angeles. Cesar makes a lot of sense but so many people seem to think that they are doing the best for their dogs and are deaf to what anybody else tells them. Like he says, dogs are not ...

BallisticSpin 17.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems - Cesar Millan

mr-zeeman sniffs out a decent dog book

Advantages: Satisfyingly dog-centred
Disadvantages: Has given mr-zeeman an appetite for another dog

...by Roy Hattersly; "Dogs in the News" by Martyn Lewis"; "500 Mile Walkies" by a chap whose name I have temporarily forgotten; "Dog Facts" by Joan Palmer … and a whole sagging shelf-load of other titles. Hence it was with massive coronary-inducing excitement that I handed over 20pence in a charity shop in exchange for a dog-related volume that I hadn't seen before … "The Hidden Life of Dogs" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas [E.M.T for brevity]. A quick ...
...and easily-digested academic study of the behaviour of domestic dogs. ~~~~~~ "How might dogs conduct themselves if left undisturbed in normal circumstances?" This was the recurring thought that propelled dog enthusiast Elizabeth Marshall Thomas into conducting a totally unsentimental piece of research into normal, unrestricted, uncontrolled, canine behaviour. At first glance one would assume that this very same thought had reverberated through ...

mr-zeeman 25.07.2005 · Read full review
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Review of The Hidden Life of Dogs - Elizabeth Marshall Thomas