Expert Obedience Training for Dogs

Winifred Gibson Strickland

Description

The Latest Edition of a Classic Dog Training Book

Learn how to communicate more effectively with your dog using the time-tested training method of the most successful Obedience competitor in history.

Winifred Strickland s humane, commonsense approach to dog training applies to all breeds of dogs, large and small. And now it s updated to include training for the latest AKC Obedience exercises.

Complete with helpful training tips, answers to frequently asked questions, and more than 170 photographs, this is an indispensable resource for everyone pet owners, Novice competitors, Open enthusiasts, Utility contenders, and Obedience instructors.
A Howell Dog Book of Distinction
Foreword to the 4th Edition.

Foreword to the 1st Edition.

Chapter 1: Should You Own a Dog?

Chapter 2: Choosing a Puppy.

Chapter 3: Choosing a Name for Your Puppy.

Chapter 4: When to Start Training Your Dog.

Chapter 5: Care and Grooming.

Chapter 6: Housebreaking.

Chapter 7: Should a Top Obedience Dog Live in Your Home?

Chapter 8: Preliminary Training.

Chapter 9: Practical Tricks.

Chapter 10: Dog Shows.

Chapter 11: Equipment.

Chapter 12: Formal Training.

Chapter 13: Regulations for Obedience Trials.

Chapter 14: The Novice Exercises.

Chapter 15: Handling.

Chapter 16: The Open Exercises.

Chapter 17: Small Dogs.

Chapter 18: The Utility Exercises.

Chapter 19: Brace Competition.

Chapter 20: Graduate Novice.

Chapter 21: The Working Class.

Chapter 22: Competing in Shows.

Chapter 23: Tracking.

Chapter 24: Advanced Tracking.

Chapter 25: Traveling with Your Dog.

Chapter 26: Teaching Your Dog to Be Useful.

Chapter 27: Problems and Solutions.

Appendix A: American Kennel Club Obedience Regulations.

Appendix B: Jump Construction Diagrams.

Sujets

• Pets
• Dogs

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 05 mai 2008
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780470366707
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Expert Obedience Training for DOGS

Left to right: OTCH Bar von Weissen-Zwinger, UD; Roger of Wynthea, UD; Randy of Wynthea, UD; Roxy of Wynthea, CD; OTCH, Ch. Joll vom Summerland, UD; Topper of Wynthea, UD.
Expert Obedience Training for DOGS
4th Edition
Winifred Gibson Strickland
Copyright 2003 by Winifred Gibson Strickland. All rights reserved.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Strickland, Winifred Gibson.
Expert obedience training for dogs / Winifred Gibson
Strickland Fourth. -4th rev. ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-7645-2516-6 (alk. paper)
1. Dogs - Obedience trials. 2. Dogs - Training. I. Title.
SF425.7 .S76 2003
636.7 0887 - dc21
CIP 2002015567
Manufactured in the United States of America
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Fourth Edition
Book design by Marie Kristine Parial-Leonardo
Cover design by Wendy Mount
Book production by Wiley Publishing, Inc. Composition Services
For all obedience training enthusiasts

A board meeting at Wynthea, or boning up for the next show. Left to right: Wynthea s Donna, UD (DW); Wynthea s Roger, UD (DW); Wynthea s Pawnee Princess, UD; Wynn Strickland; Wynthea s Little Sister, (pts); Wynthea s Marsha, UD and OTCH; and OV Wynthea s Tony, UD (DW).
ALSO BY WINIFRED GIBSON STRICKLAND
The German Shepherd Today (Third Edition)
Obedience Class Instruction for Dogs: The Trainer s Manual
Joll and Me
Obedience Training Videos for Beginners, Novice Handlers, Open and Utility (with Winifred G. Strickland demonstrating her training as outlined in this book)
Acknowledgments
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the American Kennel Club for permitting me to quote from their Obedience Regulations.
Special thanks to my friend Georgia Bialk and my son, Ronald G. Strickland, for their excellent photography.
Table of Contents
Foreword to the 4th Edition
Foreword to the 1st Edition
Chapter 1: Should You Own a Dog?
Chapter 2: Choosing a Puppy
Chapter 3: Choosing a Name for Your Puppy
Chapter 4: When to Start Training Your Dog
Chapter 5: Care and Grooming
Chapter 6: Housebreaking
Chapter 7: Should a Top Obedience Dog Live in Your Home?
Chapter 8: Preliminary Training
Teaching Your Dog Not to Bite
Teaching Your Dog Not to Jump Up
Using Different Tones of Voice
Teaching Your Dog to Lie Down
Teaching Your Dog to Ride in a Car
Teaching Your Dog to Stay at Home or in the Car
Teaching Your Dog to Come When Called
Teaching Your Dog to Walk on a Leash
Teaching Your Dog to Swim
Chapter 9: Practical Tricks
Shaking Hands
Rolling Over
Sitting Up
Saying His Prayers
Catching a Ball
Backing Up
Jumping
Chapter 10: Dog Shows
Chapter 11: Equipment
Chapter 12: Formal Training
Chapter 13: Regulations for Obedience Trials
Chapter 14: The Novice Exercises
Heeling on Leash
Teaching Your Dog to Sit at Heel
The Figure 8
The Shy, Nervous Dog
The Rough, Aggressive Dog
Vicious Dogs
The Recall Exercise
Teaching Your Dog to Go to the Heel Position
Stand for Examination
Heel Free
The Long Sit-Novice
The Long Sit-Open
The Long Down-Novice
The Long Down-Open
Chapter 15: Handling
Chapter 16: The Open Exercises
Heel Free (Figure 8)
Drop on Recall
Retrieve on Flat
Teaching Your Dog to Jump
Retrieving Over the High Jump
The Broad Jump
The Long Sit (3 Minutes) and the Long Down (5 Minutes)
Chapter 17: Small Dogs
Chapter 18: The Utility Exercises
The Signal Exercise
Scent Discrimination
The Directed Retrieve
Directed Jumping
Moving Stand and Examination
Chapter 19: Brace Competition
Heeling on Leash
Figure 8
Stand for Examination
Heeling Off Leash
The Recall Exercise
The Long Sit and the Long Down
Chapter 20: Graduate Novice
Chapter 21: The Working Class
Search Exercise
Vocabulary Exercise
Control Exercise
The Long Jump
Agility Exercise
Chapter 22: Competing in Shows
Chapter 23: Tracking
Chapter 24: Advanced Tracking
Chapter 25: Traveling with Your Dog
Chapter 26: Teaching Your Dog to Be Useful
Chapter 27: Problems and Solutions
Novice Problems
Open Problems
Utility Problems
Appendix A: American Kennel Club Obedience Regulations
Appendix B: Jump Construction Diagrams
Foreword to the 4th Edition
My training method has passed the tests of time. When I started training my first German Shepherd back in the 40s, the method being used by the training instructors I knew was too harsh, so I conceived my own distinct training method, which is the same today. In the 50s I trained three German Shepherd Dogs who became the National Obedience Champions for five consecutive years. During three of those years, when I showed two dogs, I also won the Runner-Up title.
These dogs were Margelen s Chieftain, UDT (Topper); Hussan vom Haus Kilmark, UDT, (Hussan); and Alf von Kroppelberg, UDT (Arry). Arry won his UDT and passed Tracking twice in five months and three weeks with a 199-point average. This was the greatest record ever made in Obedience history, and it still stands today. People loved to watch them compete because they were such happy, exuberant workers.
Over the years, although I moved a few times, I continued to compete with my dogs in Obedience Trials. In the 60s I started raising German Shepherds and concentrated on temperament, intelligence, and conformation. I wanted all of my dogs to earn Utility titles. It was, and is, equally important that they enjoy and excel in their work and earn high scores. So far, as a result of this, I have earned two hundred eight Obedience titles, forty perfect scores, and hundreds of High in Trial awards.
I have trained all breeds of dogs privately and in the Obedience classes and clinics I have given both at home and all over the United States and Canada. A good number of these dogs were shown in competition, so I proved to myself that my method works with any breed of dog. I also judged all AKC Obedience Classes and Tracking Trials for eighteen years, and believe that perfection and precision are synonymous with good training.
The American Kennel Club changed their Rules and Regulations a few times over the course of the years to accommodate the new exercises that were introduced in their Obedience Trials. Despite the new exercises and various changes, I was able to continue winning with all of the dogs I showed in competition. My method of appealing to a dog s finest instincts has always worked.
Whether you are just interested in training your dog to be well-mannered or would like to earn Utility Dog Excellent and Tracking titles, this book will help you achieve your goal in the shortest possible time. You will find my method uses a great deal of common sense. There are no gimmicks, prong collars, or shock collars. All you will need is your dog, a simple lightweight collar, a leash, and a genuine desire to train your dog.
I can personally attest to the fact that the exercise you get from training your dog every day will be beneficial to your general well-being. In January 2001 I had a triple coronary bypass. I was in such terrific physical condition that I was back training and competing with my dogs a few months later.
Winifred Gibson Strickland

In 1953, Winifred Strickland and Hussan vom Haus Kilmark, UDT, won the National Obedience Champion Award. Sgt. Preston of the Yukon, the popular television star, made the presentation at the Eastern Kennel Club Show. Hussan won fifteen perfect scores in one year and never failed in competition.
Foreword to the 1st Edition
In 1941, there arrived on the Obedience Trial scene a reserved, infinitely patient young woman who was, within the next decade, to gain international renown for herself and the dogs she trained and handled. Now, after many years of experience both with her own dogs and those owned