Beware of the Dog - Positive Solutions for Aggressive Behavior in Dogs
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Beware of the Dog - Positive Solutions for Aggressive Behavior in Dogs
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Narrated by:
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Debra Shieber
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Pat Miller
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Be (more) aware!
Here is your road map to evaluating, managing and modifying aggressive behavior in pet dogs. Beware of the Dog offers a wide-ranging look at all types of aggression and the way these troublesome behaviors develop. It explains the latest protocols for evaluating and dealing with the problems of aggressive dogs from classical conditioning to operant conditioning, and prescribes management strategies that really work. Written in an easy-to-understand style that meets the needs of trainers as well as the motivated dog owner.
Pat’s new book should be on the desk, not the bookshelf, of every professional studying or working with aggression cases. It will become your “go to” reference manual for all case management and behavior modification protocols. Your personal copy will quickly become dog-eared, highlighted, bookmarked, smudged with fingerprints, annotations and filled with post-it notes. Niki Tudge, President of the Pet Professional Guild and author of People Training Skills for Pet Professionals Full of engaging anecdotes that illustrate Pat’s approach, which is steadfastly force-free and humane.
Jean Donaldson, Founder, The Academy for Dog Trainers and author of The Culture Clash, MINE and FIGHT
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As a guardian of a reactive rover, as Pat MIller calls them, and also a predatory aggressive dog, I will use these skills, especially CAT (constructional aggression treatment) to help improve their behaviors. I have done substantial work with my reactive dog, but not CAT, so I am hopeful that the new perspective Pat Miller provides will help him move a bit more towards being able to tolerate being around other dogs, especially my partner's dog. While I have used most of these skills, like CC (counter conditioning) and OP (operant conditioning) before, the way she breaks down the process is helpful and feels easier to follow than some other resources (like Fiesty Fido) and will be easier for my partner to implement with her fear reactive dog, especially when we work with both dogs together. If you're interested in CAT, CC, or OP, for your aggressive dog I recommend this book. Note that while the predatory aggression section has some helpful and likely effective ideas, I suspect it won't go far enough for you to be able to trust a high prey drive dog (like mine) to be off leash with prey like my partner's recently acquired chickens. If you are exclusively looking for a resource on predatory aggression, I'd recommend checking out Simone Mueller's books and courses.
The content of this book is a little less consent and force free based than I am as a professional dog trainer and thus I didn't rate the content as 5 stars. This book is much better than other resources and books I've seen on this subject and I recommend pet dog guardians and professional dog trainers read this book. As Pat Miller says, if there's something about a training method you aren't comfortable with for your dog, even if it's her recommendation, be your dog's advocate and do it a different way after researching how to do it in a more consent based way. Choice, cooperation, and consent aren't all the same thing and this book leaves out consent, though does have a lot of choice and cooperation based skills. Hopefully in the near future there will be another resource that comes from a consent based focus (maybe Grisha Stewart's BAT 3.0, if she is able to finish writing the book) that a skilled pet dog trainer or professional dog trainer could use to combine with these methods in such a way that the training is solidly consent based and an effective positive solution to aggression in dogs.
Thank you to Dogwise Publishing for providing me with a review copy of this audiobook. All opinions are my own.
Great Resource on Positive Behavior Modification
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