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Review title: Harsh methods and out-dated techniques
Product review: I was very disappointed in this book. The author advocates the old fashioned training methods of correction for wrong behavior vs. the newer methods of positive reinforcement for correct behavior. She states that we should pinch our dogs lips and ears to teach them to retrieve. She believes spraying our dogs with a hose is a good way to teach them to drop on recall. She states that they "have been known to throw metal chairs" at big dogs to get them to come. But then reminds us to put a longline on them so they don't run away instead. Wouldn't you run away? She even devotes a chapter expaining why our dogs are stressed while learning. Of course any dog would be stressed by the training methods she advocates. There are many books available that use positive methods for training that will give us success in the show ring without these harsh methods that this book suggests.
