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Originally Posted by QuickSilver  How far did you get with "Getting Connected"? I was so excited about that one, but I got through the first two exercises of the ten or so required to pass puppy bootcamp, and then I kind of gave up. I do find "Stand By" versus "Go Play" very helpful, though I haven't fully implemented that with Thor. But Watch Me... I think Thor is too submissive a dog to look at my face for more than a few seconds. He finds that one extremely difficult. Also, they're just not as fun as "trick-y" tricks. 
I think "Canine Body Language" is one of the best books out there. I would recommend it to everyone, no matter what level of trainng they are at with their dog. |
We went through everything in the 8 hour seminar, but very quickly, I have worked on everything a little bit at home, but of course, the best of intentions.........when they started talking about 6000 repetitions of each exercise and I have 6 dogs so that's 36,000 reps of each exercise. I hope to get far enough that I can snap my dogs out of the craziness of the hind-brain chaos then I will be happy with that. I do think her books are some of the best training methods I have been exposed to and I try to go to all the seminars or clinics in my area. If you have watched the video that comes with the book, I think we did most of that in our class.
And although the exercises are not as much fun as some, one of the things that they stressed in class was that a half hour of exercise with your dog while he is thinking with his front brain is equivalent to many hours of exercise with no front brain thought. The boy I took to the seminar was exhausted when it was finished and so was I.