Pat Miller (2) (1963–)

Excellent book explaining the concept behind positive reinforcement based training. It is written clearly and simply without any unnecessary information that makes you want to nod off. The author also explains a bit about other training styles and how they differ, and includes a 6 week program that just about anyone can follow to teach their dogs several useful things via positive reinforcement. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn this method of training, and it's even good for those of us who already know how.… (meer)

This is a book I read out of semi-necessity. We are soon bringing a puppy home, and, while I have trained a dog before, my fiancé has not. We thus made a trip to Barnes & Noble, where he used his gift card from Christmas to buy The Power of Positive Dog Training. True to how our relationship works, I ended up reading it first, and he'll start it a little later. I found Pat Miller's book to be full of perspective-changing ideas, and I think there will be a lot of information she included that I will incorporate into our training process, but we won't be using her entire repertoire of techniques.

Full review: http://libwen.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/the-power-of-positive-dog-training-by-pat...… (meer)