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About Obedience Bibliography

Posted : 6/13/2006 7:42:51 PM

I feel that this issue has been asked thousands of times in this forum, but i performed some searches using the search engine and I could not find any interesting answers on what i'm looking for.

I need, some kind of book/s than can make me start undestanding the basics of dog obedience, how can i make commands from myself be learnt by the dog as soon as possible to keep on teaching new things as far as possible. I had two dogs so far in 15 years, one a husky was a total rebel i could not manage to teach him nothing and him scaped from my house one day, the second is a boxer and he is pretty completely to be in my house (he scaped twice and he return the day after by itself without any education on this), and actually when i perform some basic commands like sitting, he obbey, but it took me loads of time without any technique, just intuitive.

So since i get my new dog in a few months (will be a Labrador Retriever as far as i know), as a puppy, until he grows older, which proccedure of teaching to be a dog that can do things and be obedient from the beggining. For example, i would like a dog that can go in the car with me without being a trouble, being a social dog, wandering around a lot of people passively without going mad, following me through commands...

The whole idea is, trying to teach all this through reading of books (or watching/listening media). The ones that i have selected by now are:

Really Reliable Recall (Is a DVD)
My dog pulls, what do i do?
Parenting your dog
Right on Target! Taking dogs training to a next level.

Any more ideas? Thanks in advance.

agilebasenji

Posted : 6/13/2006 8:26:11 PM

Morgan Spector's Clicker Training for Obedience is one of the best clicker obedience books out there for step by step and explainations.

MiSSigNNo

Posted : 6/14/2006 1:30:03 PM

I dont know anything about this clicker new system, but it is actually working properly? Is going to be my only dog and i would like to go through a safely proccedure.

Thanks about the answer by the way, this morning I found one post that talks about books a lot, i dont know why it didnt appear in the search before.

agilebasenji

Posted : 6/14/2006 3:29:43 PM

Clicker training is very safe (for you and the dog) and it does work. I use it alot in training my dogs and I've found it really engages the dog's brain. Have fun!

jensw

Posted : 6/14/2006 3:54:27 PM

Hi - I really liked The Power of Positive Dog Training by Pat Miller and Clicking With Your Dog by Peggy Tillman for learning how to use a clicker to train my dog. Other books that I have found helpful for basic understanding of how to train a dog were Don't Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor, The Other End of the Leash by Patricia McConnell, and Culture Clash by Jean Donaldson. For more on clicker-training, check out [linkhttp://www.clickertraining.com]www.clickertraining.com[/link]

Good luck! If you decide to go the clicker route, you'll have a ton of fun. [

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spiritdogs

Posted : 6/14/2006 11:55:34 PM

I think the best book for simply understanding the relationship between dogs and humans is "The Culture Clash" by Jean Donaldson. I really like the books Jen recommended and I like your choice of "Really Reliable Recall" and "Parenting Your Dog".

MiSSigNNo

Posted : 6/15/2006 6:44:11 AM

I've been reading about clicker training and it seems to be my style of handling with the dogs (positive training), so I may check it out. Thanks for the advice to all.

I may be ordering a stack of books from dogwise for this weekend. About the culture clash, i feel it is more to mastery comprehension with dogs, so I will leave it for after I read the training basics that I start to figure out the real pictue.