How to Be Your Dog’s Best Friend
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The Monks of New Skete are known for their unique approach to raising and training dogs; they maintain the philosophy that “understanding is the key to communication, compassion, and communion” with your dog.
In How to Be Your Dog’s Best Friend, the monks erect upon the basic puppy training covered in their book The Art of Raising a Puppy to tell you everything you need to know to care for your dog. From how to select a dog to fit your lifestyle, how to read a pedigree, how and when to train, how to properly use praise and discipline, and how to feed and care for dogs, the monks offer clear guidelines to improving communication with your canine.
Filled with the wisdom, compassion, and caring that the brothers are known for, How to Be Your Dog’s Best Friend helps you better know your dog, which can lead to a deepened bond with your pet.Amazon.com Review
The Monks of New Skete share their invaluable training techniques and philosophy in their bestselling book, How to Be Your Dog’s Best Friend. First and foremost, the Monks–who themselves breed and raise German shepherds in Upstate New York–emphasize that “understanding is the key to communication, compassion, and communion” with your dog. Outlined in seven highly readable and informative chapters, the training principles offer a better knowledge of your pet’s psyche and personality–ultimately deepening the bond between human and animal. Striving to educate and sensitize new and potential owners to dog kind, the book explores different breeds and temperaments, and assesses the best places from which to take a dog. Thanks to a succession of neatly ordered chapters and subsections on everything from crates and leash training to dog treats and massage, training is made accessible and even fun. The Monks lay particular emphasis on the importance of training with “spirit, humor, and most of all, physical and verbal praise!” Whether you’re a new owner or an ancient-timer, How to Be Your Dog’s Best Friend is one of the best training guides available, written with compassion, empathy, and humor. –Naomi Gesinger
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If you hit your dog, you are abusing your dog. Unadorned and simple. Cut and dry. To discipline means to teach – not to hit! Arresting is not disciplining. Animals are ours to like – not to abuse. Please do not buy this book. Buy something that encourages a mutual relationship of respect between you and your dog.
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Animals should NEVER receive negative punishment (physical or mental). Why should you, when the positive reinforcemt methods have poved to work so well and makes your animal obey you out of respect and not out of dread as the negative reinforcement does? The use of negative reinforcemt stems from a lack of right understanding of canine psychology (as it is utterly unnecessary) and a need to be sadistic. As a veterinarian and animal lover, I fervently advise against this book.
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This book is a disgrace! Our dogs are a part of our family tree. This book suggests beating your dog and instilling dread into him or her. Pass on this one if you can.
The best way to train your dog is through positive reinforcement. I have a labrador who was very diffcult as a young puppy. We called her “Rosemary’s Baby” But, after a few weeks at a local dog obiedience school she is now a changed pup. And it only took a few weeks to see a drastic change. Now she is our angel.
If you are looking for advice on how to train your dog, then find a local dog obeidence school. Two things will take place that you can not get from a book. One your dog will become socialized with additional people and dogs and two you will learn from professionals and others in your class who are going through the same thing you are.
As for the monks, “Do onto others as you would want done on to you” If you ever write a book about beating each additional into submission, please e-mail me. That one I will buy!
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When my dog was younger, I was advised that the best way to keep him from running into the street and in front of cars was to really hit him with my car. That’s right, hit my dog with my car- “not too hard, but enough to scare him so he won’t forget it.” That same person gave me this book and said it was the best for dog training. I doubt the car arresting advice is part of this book, but I never did end reading it. I only needed to read a small to see that instilling dread and punishment were a large part of the Monks “technique”. It was the same mentality as arresting my dog with my car. For me, I feel that there are a lot better ways to train a dog. There are a lot of misinformed people that reflect positive training means wimpy coddling. Its not, and additional commenters here have already cited some books that are excellent examples.
The shelter system is already overflowing with dogs with “behavior” problems. Are there that many terrible dogs? Or are some just the products of well-meaning but inexperienced owners that used heavy-handed punishment “training” because they got terrible advice from a terrible book?
Incidently, I normally donate any books I’m finished with, but not this one. I didn’t want to be reliable for disseminating it any further. It went straight to the recycling bin, hopefully to be recycled in to something better….. like toilet paper.
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This book is immensely appealing to persons with small experience with dogs and small knowledge about them. It makes everything so simple. All the dog needs is some really hard cracks under her chin, enough to make her scream and later cower and tremble at the sight of you. And best of all, one method fits all dogs! You never have to reflect about a thing. What works for an aggressive, hardheaded dog that barely notices a levelheaded whack is exactly what you use for a sensitive, confused, frightened dog. The monks are not bothered by fine distinctions. Nor do they feel obligated to waste their time by studying and understanding different breeds and different dogs, or by carefully adapting their training methods to the dog. By throwing in a dash of smarmy psychobabble about the joy of relationships with dogs, they even manage to get credit for being “sensitive.” People who know dogs know better. Different dogs require different methods, and no dog should be brutalized into cowering and trembling at the sight of her “best friend.” But many dog owners desperately want a quick fix to the problems they have made through their ignorance, neglect, or outright mistreatment of their dogs. If the dog gets hurt in the process, so much the better. Revenge is sweet. Therein lies the enduring popularity of this grotesque piece of garbage. But, before you start to sample the pleasures of smacking your dog around and hurling her to the floor, be forewarned: Plastic surgeons have made a bundle from this book. Alpha rolls and chin bashing are an brilliant way to have a sizable chunk of your face removed, which does rather take the fun out of it . . .
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