Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training
by Karen Pryor
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Author: Karen PryorEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-08-03
ISBN: 0553380397
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Bantam
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Summary: 5 Stars
There are other books that are better at giving the specifics of how to positively train your dog.
However, Karen Pryor was the first to use positive training for dogs. It is possible to get some response to human commands by using the negative training that was the mode before Karen Pryor came along. However, she trained marine mammals. You cannot intimidate a killer whale into obeying you as you can, sort of, with a dog. She reasons that if positive training worked for marine mammals, why wouldn't it work for dogs. It does.
Positive training leads to much more consistent outcomes, especially with dogs who's been abused.
I was asked to take a pure-bred Chow who came into rescue after at least 2 years, and several litters of puppies on a chain. Boys in the neighborhood beat her with sticks and every time the rescue group gave the Chow's family things to help (dog houses, food and water bowls, food, etc), the things disappeared, and the chow stayed out on the chain without shelter or food or water. Finally, Animal control was convinced to take the dog when it got very sick.
When I got the chow, she was a fear biter and her skin was infected over 30% of her body--the surface of her foot pads were coming off, as was the lining of her ear flap. She was extremely underweight, ill, and afraid.
Karen Pryor's book had just been published. I used the ideas to help my chow girl and, after 4 years, she recovered to the point that she would let strangers, even boys, pet her.
Because I was not sure, and it was before Best Friends and all the positive training books since, I never left her alone with children. She might have been okay. I just didn't have anyway to know--not being a veterinary behaviorist or researcher of dog behavior. She passed away at age 16.
Karen Pryor gives an excellent idea of why we should use positive methods and a good start at integrating them into a training program. Others give a clearer step by step approach, but I still think it is worth reading the book that started it all.
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