Pat B. Miller

This book makes so much sense to me, and offers a more systematic framework for thinking about how we interact with our recently-adopted dog. The instructions are clear, give options, and always reflect compassion and respect for both dog & human partners in training.

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 show more that I will incorporate into our training process, but we won't be using her entire repertoire of techniques.

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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 show more good for those of us who already know how. show less

Wonderful practical advice and sanity-saving encouragement--I would recommend this book to anyone with a dog in their life.