this is one of those orange Idiot's guides to dog training. The woman who wrote this is a trainer for competing show dogs and has many years experience in dealing with dogs. (she was also a groomer for some time). The approach is easier on you and easier on your dog. Instead of hitting your dog every time she does something you do not like, you train her to obey instructions and so you instruct her to do a behavior that you do like instead of shouting 'no' at her which gives her no direction. Truffle knows 'sit'-we have been working on this one for a few weeks, but this morning we started training on 'lay'. This book encourages training sessions to last no more than 10 minutes because any more than that is viewed as punishment by the dog. Other commands I hope to implement soon are 'give' and ...
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