| Re: Any one heard of SitStayFetch training?
Way back when I started there were only a handful of books, and flicking through some pages at the book store I realised those books was not what I really wanted. So I located and went to the local dog training club, it was there that I heard about obedience shows and went to a number of obedience competitions. Seeing the dogs there doing all sorts of fantastic things it was then I decided that this is what I wanted to do with my dog, that is after I got my first dog.
At the obedience shows I had seen the dogs performing, also I saw who regularly got ribbons and things, so I talked to them and asked how did they train their dogs and this even when their dogs were young puppies. Later when I got my first dog it wasn't long before we were competing alongside those who mentored, and years later after obtaining an number of champion titles with a few dogs did I then bother to sit down and read some books on training dogs.
Compared to what was available many years ago when I started, in the past decade there has been an explosion of books. Books tend to generalise dogs but each dog is a unique individual, and a key thing to training each dog is to style the training to suite each dog and on how they like to be trained, and the better you do this the more willing they are to learn and this produces greater results quickly, stepping back and allowing the dog to be the expert on how they like to be trained adds another dimension on training. But keep in mind before I even had a dog I sought very experienced mentors and who taught me about training dogs.
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