Great ideas on training! Wish the methods were more positive.

I love that this book has so many training ideas, and she has some good ways of training tricks and behaviors. Coming from a positive way of training, she does a lot of forceful methods, and compulsion training which does not create a fun happy environment for your dog. Training is suppose to be fun and build a great bond between human and dog. Shoving a dogs butt into the ground when they don’t want to does not create a fun environment. There are more positive ways to train. In the pictures where she is forcing a dog into position the dog is clearly giving calming signals showing its discomfort. On the pictures where she is shaping behaviors the dogs are having tons of fun, and have good body language. Overall, great book with great ideas, but I would recommend using her positive methods for training, and avoid the compulsion methods.

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