Dog Training At Home—Take It Outside!
Training your dog is one of the most rewarding and important things you can do for bonding with your dog, creating mutual respect, and ensuring the dog’s safety and sense of well-being for his or her lifetime. I recently came across a dog training program which I think works well for people who know that new four-legged family members don’t just “fit in” to the routine by magic, and who would appreciate something more multi-media than a book.
Dean Rankin, author and trainer, has produced a fully downloadable training system comprised of several useful media elements.
- A presentation overview perfect for those who are helping children understand how dogs think, what drives dogs to respond positively to commands, what will never work and why it won’t work. It teaches responsibility and facilitates a successful and happy fit between your dog and your family life. It’s what we at Lake Shore Animal Shelter hold as a goal for all dogs and their adopted families.
- A 2-hour introduction is followed by 17 lesson-specific MP3 downloadable training sessions that run between 3-12 minutes each, so you can listen in the car, on the treadmill, and keep it with you while you train your dog in the yard!. From housebreaking to annoyance barking retraining, I found this easy to follow and apply to my own dog. Who doesn’t have 3 to 12 minutes to make you and your dog happy?
- PDF instructions on how to teach your dog to do tricks, recipes for dog treats (important note: since garlic can be toxic for some dogs and is a member of the onion family, a listed poison, I’d skip that ingredient altogether in any recipe), and a couple of historical books if you are interested in the evolution of dog training (funny how things change and yet remain the same!)—fun as book report citations for any of the youth in your life!
What I thought made this program more worthy of review than others was that about a week after I bought the program, I got an email from Dean Rankin, the program’s author, with a link to a radio interview with a dog trainer on a topic of current interest. I have received another since then. I was really impressed with the added-value.
Oh yes, AND for every purchase through Lake Shore’s website, Lake Shore will receive $10! If you get the program and don’t like it, you can return it and get all your money
back. Everybody wins, especially the dogs waiting for their new homes.
Check it out and see what you think. If you like it, tell your friends with unruly dogs
(leash pulling, jumping, refusing to come) to go to lakeshoreanimalshelter.org and order this positive reinforcement training program. --> Dog Traning Video <--
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