Sunday, January 4, 2009

Great Dog Trainers

Here are some A-mazing dog trainers you could really learn a lot from. Don't just follow one trainer, one style of training, or even one species of animal trainers.

Positive reinforcement trainers CAN learn from punishment trainers, you don't have to like or agree with someone to learn from them, watching mistakes is still a way to learn. Dolphin trainers can learn from dog trainers, horse trainers can learn from elephant trainers and so on and so on.

Karen Pryor, has trained many animals but started with dolphins and went to dogs.

Chris Bach,
developed the "third way" a great way to have fast success with your dog. She is also the creator of many training "games" trainers and owners use. For example, the eye contact game!

Ivan Balabanov
, has a great DVD called "The Game". It is a superb method for training toy motivated dogs. He is also one of the top protection dog trainers and competitors in the world.

Steve White, a great trainer but a wonderful positive protection trainer.

Sue Ailsby
, very intelligent and creative, go to her website for information on teaching most behaviors.

Hope you get some good information!
Sarah Cross, CPDT