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| Mother Knows Best: The Natural Way to Train Your Dog | 
 enlarge | Author: Carol Lea Benjamin
Publisher: Howell Book House
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 16913
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1
ISBN: 0876056664
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.70887
UPC: 021898056665
EAN: 9780876056660
ASIN: 0876056664
Publication Date: March 5, 1985
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| Customer Reviews:
 The best puppy training May 9, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The best training book I've ever used. Has easy to use schedules and day-by-day steps for bringing up a healthy, well-trained dog.
Humane, kind, helpful February 4, 2006
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I love Carol Lea Benjamin's books. Check out her Secondhand Dog and Surviving Your Dog's Adolescence, too. :)
My very favorite dog books are by Patricia McConnell. Her wonderful books are wise, humane, and so enjoyable. I highly recommend The Other End of the Leash, Beginning Family Dog Training, and How to be the leader of the pack...And have your dog love you for it.
Great book, great advice. It works! January 25, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I read "Mother Knows Best" for the first time 14 years ago after bringing home a puppy from the local humane society. I followed the advice in the book to the letter and wound up with the most wonderful, well trained dog you could imagine. I'm now preparing for another puppy and this book has become required reading for my hubby and anyone else who plans to puppy sit!
Carol Lea Benjamin is a great dog trainer and a great writer. I recommend this book to anyone who wants a four legged family member that minds better than most kids do!
The top of the heap of puppy training books!!! January 21, 2006
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I first read this 15 years ago, when raising an unruly 1 yr. old rescue Dalmatian who'd been let to run wild. Next came along a difficult coonhound, again out came Carol Lea Benjamin's book. Then a sweet but independent spaniel. Again, Benjamin's book to the rescue. Her theme resonates with me year after year.... Mother Knows Best.
Not only do I use this book when training my own pups, but I've given it to many friends. I've taught puppy kindergarten in the past, and I always recommend this book along with HOW TO RAISE A PUPPY YOU CAN LIVE WITH by Claire Rutherford.
I've read dozens of books on dog behavior and training, Carol Benjamin's is BY FAR the very best of these in it's down-to-earth attitude with a little humor about those crazy situations puppies & owners get themselves into.
One of the BEST! September 21, 2005
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I am a dog trainer/psychologist. I started out training dogs by just forcing them to do what I wanted. This was how most trainers did it. Condition responce/Skinner method. Then I read William Koehler in the 1960s. Now we are taking about more of a training method though understanding the dog.
Vicki Hearne 1980s and Barbara Woodhouse in the 1980s opened my eyes futher. And I love the book by The Monks of New Skete of the 1990s. But, the two books that enlighten me the most: Patricia Gail Burnham (Playtraining Your Dog 1986) and this book Carol Lea Benjamin (Mother Knows Best: The Natural Way to Train Your Dog 1985). Natural is the key. Dog understanding /psychology is the way to have the best relation with your animal and Ms. Benjamin book sets you going in the right direction.
An example would be training a dog to STAY. In the 1960s I would yell at the dog if it moved- make it understand that if the dog moved it would not like it. Ms. Burnham and Ms. Benjamin in thier books tell us to let the dog move, let it even get to a spot it feels safe (usally between your legs if the dog is young or under a table if it is an older dog). Go get the dog and put it back in the exact spot it left the STAY potision. Say STAY again. Repeat and get firmer only if required- depends on dog. In the 1st method the dog stays in the STAY scared to move, sometime shaking, uncomfortable. In the second, the dog feels like that STAY position is the most comfortable, best spot in the world, real safe, calm. What a difference!
Buy a dog book have a better relationship with your 'best friend'.
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