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Index • home • appearance • history • temperament • health • buying • rescue • faq • gallery • breed standard • pet ringworm Site Info about us contact us about amazon about google ads privacy disclaimer links sitemap Useful Ads Mother Knows Best: The Natural Way to Train Your Dog | home | all | books | dvd | officeproducts | petsupplies | toys | about Amazon products | Pug Books from Amazon Mother Knows Best: The Natural Way to Train Your Dog List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $5.93 Average Customer Rating: (38 reviews) Editorial Review: With more than 150,000 copies sold, Mother Knows Best is one of the top training books of all time. Based on the natural way a mother dog trains her puppies, Benjamin's training method is humane, effective and all natural. Now we've put a bright new cover on a timeless classic. Customer Reviews: 0 of 0 found this review helpful: Good Dog Training Book, 2008-03-03 If you're looking to train your dog, this is a good book that shows you how. I would recommend Train Your Dog - The Positive Gentle Method and maybe a dog obedience class (that will help your dog learn to socialize) also. 1 of 1 found this review helpful: Out dated, 2007-12-11 When this book was published in 1985 the concept of natural training was revolutionary. The Monks of New Skete followed in 1991 with a book advocating the same concept of training. However, the principles of a more natural training method have been greatly refined over the years and some of the advice that is contained in this book is wrong (or wrong in most situations). The author is adament that food should not be given as a reward, reward should be positive attention only. The Monks also believed this but weren't so adament. More recent books have recognized that different breeds respond differently. Breeds bred for close human interaction, primarily the herding breeds, are more closely focused on humans, breeds bred to act independently such as Beagles, and other hounds, and terriers, are not closely attuned to humans and respond better to food rewards. Hey, it's animal behavior 101 that lab rats are rewarded by food and learn from those rewards. Interestingly both Benjamin and the Monks work primarily with German Shepards. Benjamin also maintains that you can bring a dog back to the scene of its crime, i.e. where it destroyed a pillow, show it the destroyed pillow and correct the dog's behavior. All the recent books acknowledge that you can only correct a dog's behavior if you catch the dog while it is in the act. Potentially dangerous advice that she gives is to grab a dog by both sides of the neck and get in its face to stare it down. That is threatening and confrontational and may work with puppies but other books warn against that approach with agressive dogs as it will incite them to attack and bite. There are better books out there pass on this. 2 of 2 found this review helpful: train don't complain, 2007-05-23 I have been a dog trainer for many years. This is one of two books that I suggest to my clients. So much common sense with a dash of humor. Easy to read and implement to your training program. Great book. 1 of 1 found this review helpful: Great Book, 2007-02-06 This is a very good book for training yourself to talk to dogs. 3 of 15 found this review helpful: Guess what?, 2006-09-14 Big suprise, dogs know that we aren't dogs. The gig is up, dogs don't relate to us the way they relate to dogs. Get a book that really teaches you how dogs think and learn. 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