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The Dog Whisperer: Beginning and Intermediate Dog Training

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THE DOG WHISPERER: BEGINNING AND INTERMEDIATE DOG TRAINING presents the newest advances in positive training methods that are easy-to-use, fast, effective, and motivating. The DVD features professional step-by-step methods by one of the leading proponents of nonviolent training in the world, Paul Owens. Owens is also the author of the best-selling books, The Dog Whisperer and The Puppy Whisperer.

· Learn three simple steps to each of eight different behaviors.

· Solve unwanted jumping, stealing, barking, pulling on the leash, digging, and chewing.

· Get reliable behavior without jerking, hitting, shocking, or shaking.

· Learn clicker training for faster results.

· Learn how to quickly wean your dog off food treats.

· Include fun tricks and games to play with your dog.

Along with step-by-step instruction, THE DOG WHISPERER DVD includes segments that give an amusing, yet instructional look at training from the dog's point of view, featuring celebrity cameo voiceovers by Jeffrey Tambor, Cheri Oteri and Kevin McDonald. This combination of entertainment and professional training makes it an ideal program for individuals or families looking to train their dog to be reliable without physical negatives or punishment.

Special Bonuses Included on DVD: Man's First Friend is a 3-minute, state-of-the-art animated short about cave-people and their first encounter with the family dog. Princess Sabrina is a dog puppet with heart, pizzazz and humor who is featured on her own talk show on this DVD. In another segment, she actually trains a real-life dog, making training easy to understand and fun to do.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0183390000000
Format: NTSC
Label: Sand Castle Enterprises LLC
Manufacturer: Sand Castle Enterprises LLC
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sand Castle Enterprises LLC
Region Code: 0
Release Date: 2004-06-04
Running Time: 72
Studio: Sand Castle Enterprises LLC


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• The Dog Whisperer: Vol 2 - Solving Common Behavior Problems
• The Very Best of Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan
• The Dog Whisperer: A Compassionate, Nonviolent Approach to Dog Training
• Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan: Power of the Pack
• Puppy Whisperer: A Compassionate, Non Violent Guide to Early Training and Care


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Very passive training book, positive reinforcement only -
This book is straight up reward on good behavior and ignoring bad behavior entirely. Very difficult for me to do. Made me recognize I am too harsh with negative reinforcement. Temper control mandatory in order to use these methods. It really does work, but your individual personality , like mine, might be tough to actually implement. It was very helpful to read about the different weeks of life and what to expect from the dog as they mature. It was right on for me at about 10 or 12 weeks, my dog got all sorts of scared about everything on walks. The book called it out and said it should last about 2 weeks. Basically his senses got turned on and he had to learn how to process them. What was a bad sound and what was a nothing sound, etc.

The Dog Wisperer Season Two -
Watching Csa Millan work wonders with all dogs, has given me building blocks on how to get my 2 dogs (Rottie cross Doberman & Rottie cross Red Healer) to obay & keep under control, especial when I take them for walks. Wish he was here to help me.
I have also bougth season one - four, & his book "Be The Pack Leader". Cesar is not only a Great Dog Whisperer, but also a man with insight to Human behaviour, I can completely relate to his book. I can recomend it to anybody even people without a dog, it's just great reading.

dog training -
Paul is great he goes step by step with each command and shows you if you are having a problem getting your dog to do the command i wish i had purchased the dvd before spending the money on obedience class, i would highly recommend paul's dvd's to anyone looking for an at home training program.

Good for newbies; but very repetitive -
I've never had a Dog before, so I've been trying to learn read and watch as much as I can about raising well behaved Puppy.

I'm halfway through Mr. Owens' book which is an excelent read, BTW I highly reccomend it. But I have mixed feelings on this DVD's.

It certainly "shows" you phisically how you should perform in front of your dog to accomplish specific behaviors; watching this is always helpful. The DVD is divided in chapters that each teach a specific behavior (sit, come, leave it, etc) each lasting probably 5 minutes. There is not a "play all" button, so at the end of each behavior you have to select the next behavior from the menu to keep watching... kind of annoying.

All excersices are very biased in the sense that all dogs perform as expected. You only see what happens when the dog performs as expected. On occasions the dog fails and they say to go back and restart where the dog was successful, but they never show or teach you what to do if the dog wanders away, or gets overexcited or losses interest, etc etc.

At the end of each behavior chapter they recap what you have learned, but they are the same reccomendations for every chapter, so after watching a couple, it becomes repetitive (that may be the intention) and end up being boring.

I would like to see a new release of the DVD with more "what to do in case your dog..." cases. I think Mr. Owens has much more to teach than the material that was chosen for this DVD. It is not his fault, he is dog trainer; not a DVD director. He should probably fire his editor and find a better one for his next DVD.

In summary, I think there are more good things than bad with this DVD. If this is the first time you are training a dog, you should get this DVD... you will learn something, eventhough you could have learned a lot more if this DVD was properly done. But for 16 bucks I think it is not a bad deal.

Some useful tidbits, mostly useless -
Paul Owens throws himself a lot of softballs in these videos. The dogs are pathetic, low-drive, soft, lethargic lumps. If you use a leash at all on a high-drive dog then your dog is going to experience what Paul calls "violence" as soon as he hits the end of the leash. So forget the ridiculous "non-violent" nonsense. Dogs are violent predators and carnivores and while unnecessarily harsh abuse is counterproductive, there is nothing wrong with appropriate corrections. Dogs give corrections to the ones they dominate and it's a natural expectation for them to receive them. If you correct them fairly, they will respect you.

A few of the techniques in the video are useful, especially with puppies where you want to prefer motivational techniques over anything else. Paul doesn't teach marker training or treat chasing which are pretty much the foundation of any training program for competitive dog sports today. If you don't learn those methods, you'll be missing a huge chunk of knowledge.

Any serious training involves building drive and focus, then learning and three or four other steps. Paul's methods can be useful for the learning phase but the preceding drive and focus work would actually make Paul's methods less effective in some cases. Personally, I think treat chasing is the best method for dealing with a dog where you've built a ton of drive and have developed intense focus. No matter how a dog learned something, after a dog learns something, he needs to take corrections for any disobedience. If you don't enforce obedience then you are reinforcing disobedience. There is no apathy in a dog, especially a dog with a lot of drive. When the dog is obeying all the time and every time, then the distractions are increased until he learns to obey under distraction -- low levels at first, and high levels when he's finishing. If you simply never expect much from your dog, then Paul's method would work sometimes.

Paul's "philosophy" is risky to driven and hard dogs. Owners will not succeed with this method when they have a dog with a lot of drive or a dog that's hard, and there are plenty that are both. Those dogs are at risk when they are only trained with methods like Paul's. Paul is unfair to those dogs by dismissing corrections, prong collars, electric collars and other useful training methods and tools and making them out to be "violent" or abusive. That's false information. Either Paul is ignorant or he's preying on the ignorance of his customers.

I will agree that "force" training methods and choke collars are abusive, but Paul's "positive-only" method throws the baby out with the bath water. Prong collars and e-collars are not abusive. I've used them on myself and they do not injure. I would much rather use either one on a hard dog than have to try to communicate a correction to him with a flat collar. To a hard dog, a hard pop on a flat collar just means you want to play a little more rough. It sends his drive level up and you multiply the problem. This is because dogs do violence. They play violent. Maybe some dogs are like the ones in Paul's videos and they can't handle anything more violent than a book dropping off the table but there are other dogs that are not the least bit aggressive but they wouldn't stop ripping you up for a game if you didn't teach them otherwise. Paul won't show you those dogs because his methods don't work with them.

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