Product Description
Since its first appearance in 1962, this popular dog training book has gone through 38 printings and sold more than 475,000 copies. The instructions and training approaches given here can be equally successful with groups in a training class environment or for individuals training alone. This new edition presents a pertinent update of AKC Novice obedience requirements. 46 illustrations.
$144.41
The Koehler Method of Dog Training
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Barbara Durston says:
02/16/2010 at 11:07 AM (UTC -5)
This is the worse book on so called dog training there is. This is not a book on how to train your dog. This is a book on how to abuse and ruin your dog. The methods described are cruel. This book is merely an outlet for the authors sadism.
Rating: 1 / 5
Anonymous says:
02/16/2010 at 9:50 AM (UTC -5)
This book will give you some really great ideas on how to ABUSE your dog.
I was forced to buy this book at the orientation for an obedience class. I was told not to read ahead but I read the whole book anyway. I never went back to the class.
I suppose Koehler’s methods of choking, beating, and drwoning your dog will help you build a wonderful bond. Perhaps the kind of twisted bond that keeps many battered woman from leaving abusive relationships.
Repulsive.
Rating: 1 / 5
Dogs and Books says:
02/16/2010 at 7:25 AM (UTC -5)
You would never know, if you read only this book, that it could be fun to live with dogs — in Koehler’s world, dogs are sneaky and nasty and always trying to get over on you. His solution to every training problem is to choke, hang, beat, or half-drown the dog (that’s how to handle digging, folks). Oh, did I mention electric shock? Electric shock is very big with Koehler.
Sure, you can produce a dog who’s too scared of you to make a move without permission — but if you’d rather have a joyful, compliant, eager companion, if you’d like to train according to methods proven effective by years of research and practical experience in animal learning, read Pat Miller, Ian Dunbar, Jean Donaldson, Karen Pryor. There’s nothing weak or silly about teaching your dog to work for a living by rewarding the behavior you like. The difference between Koehler and an effective trainer who is also kind is that Koehler’s idea of a “reward” seems to be to let the dog go on breathing. Some of us think life can be more pleasant than that.
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J. BRESLAUER says:
02/16/2010 at 5:55 AM (UTC -5)
NO WAY, NO HOW. Harsh, cruel methods of dog training are UNNECESSARY and is ANIMAL ABUSE. Read Ceasar Milasn’s books (he’s known as “The Dog Whisperer”), to learn kind, effective leadership skills, in order to properly train your dog to do ANYTHING you want him/ her to do. Learning Caesar Milan’s ways has helped me teach hundreds of dogs to behave, and become housetrained, loving, mindful companions, eager to please their guardians.
The Koehler Method of Dog Training by William R. Koehler IS A WASTE OF TIME, MONEY AND YOU JUST DON’T NEED IT. IT’S ANTQUATED, UNKIND ANIMAL BULLYING. DO NOT BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Annie Kuehler says:
02/16/2010 at 5:31 AM (UTC -5)
I ordered this book and never recieved it although my CC was charged for it so if any one can tell me what it says I would appreciate it.
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