Title: An effective and athoritative guide for ruining your dog-
Product review: I cannot condemn this book enough. I have seen so many dogs turned either vicoius or neurotic by using Koeler's methods, I am 100% sure this is not the way to go. I refer to the Koeler methods as the "Short-Tempered" method for training a dog. By punishing a dog before it has a chance to learn what is expected of it, it creates stress and confusion, thereby making it impossible for the dog to learn anything. I find his methods for dealing with handler agressive (fearful????) dogs particularly objectionable, as they will cause a dog reacting out of fear to go into full blown attack mode and possibly seriously injure the handler. The average pet owner cannot discern betweeen an animal acting out of domanance and one acting out of fear. Without this critical piece of information, one cannot train a dog for guard work using these methods.
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