How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend: The Classic Training Manual for Dog Owners (Revised & Updated Edition)
by The Monks of New Skete
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Author: The Monks of New SketeEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-09
ISBN: 0316610003
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Book Review: dog training for a blind dog
Summary: 5 Stars
I found that this book stood out from the others of it's kind by the simple gentleness that the authors use in their training methods. They allowed the dogs to enter their daily routines and lives with something akin to mutual respect. I needed this viewpoint and it's respectful workability to help me with my situation. About this the book had no answers and I found that most of their training suggestions had to be used in a different manner.
My dog has recently gone blind from glaucoma and while there are a few books out there that deal with this, I liked the monks' approach to training the best. My dog and his situation differs in that he is a bassett hound - very scent oriented - and whose main function/job is as watch dog and protector. He was never formally trained but responded well to a few commands as he grew up to understand his job. We live on a large fenced property (15+ acres) and walk the perimeter nightly for exercise. His blindness came on over a period of time but was still traumatic. It was here that I needed a bit of guidance to get him passed the fear and uncertainty of what to do next. The monks gentle approach helped as we started to work on more appropriate voice commands and a bit of formal training. I needed the assurance that he would behave on command and respond with the appropriate actions so that I could keep him safe. While he can't see any hand signals or see my movements, he follows my voice and is responding well gentle leash tugs for direction. Also I had never before used dog treats but they are definitely helping to get the training moving along. We still take our nightly walks with me acting as a "seeing-eye dog", and after a month's time he now steps out with confidence, head held to the ground, sniffing out intruders, but tail held high.
My biggest thanks to the monks and their gentle ways was that as long as we maintained our routine, something my dog had come to depend on, he had the courage to face the world blindly. He still shares in my life the same spot and attention he's always had. We are able to go out in public with confidence and he's established friends at the local dog park. I think that the key factor was just being my dog's bff (best friend forever). With his new situation he is greatly dependent on me to keep him safe while he explores his surroundings. Instead of a depressed, whimpering/cowering dog I have one that steps out with confidence and is once again smiling and wagging his tail happily.
If I can get that from this book, then it should work for pretty much everyone.
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