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With more than 150,000 copies sold, Mother Knows Best is one of the top training books of all time. Based on the natural way a mother dog trains her puppies, Benjamin's training method is humane, effective and all natural. Now we've put a bright new cover on a timeless classic.
About the Author.

Foreword.

Acknowledgments.

1. Between Man and Dog.

2. Rewards and Punishments: Mother Knows Best.

3. Getting Organized.

4. Basic Etiquette for Puppies.

5. Basic Obedience Training.

6. Off-Leash Puppy.

7. Trouble Shooting.

8. Class.

9. Off-Leash Dog.

10. Games to Play with Your Dog.

Index.

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	21 avril 2008
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780470332818
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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M OTHER K NOWS B EST
The Natural Way to Train Your Dog
M OTHER K NOWS B EST
The Natural Way to Train Your Dog
Carol Lea Benjamin
Photographs by Stephen Lennard and Carol Benjamin
Drawings by Carol Benjamin
First Edition
Copyright © 1985 by Carol Lea Benjamin.
Howell Book House
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Benjamin, Carol Lea
Mother Knows Best.
Includes index.
Summary: An approach to training designed to make an obedient, reliable animal of the family dog.
1. Dogs—Training. [1. Dogs-Training] I.Leonard,
Stephen, ill. II. Title.
SF431.B422 1985 636.7’0887 84-27871
ISBN 0-87605-666-4
Portions of this book and some of the cartoons previously appeared in a slightly different form in the magazine Pure-bred Dogs: American Kennel Gazette © 1980,1981,1982,1983 and Animals © 1983 Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Some of the cartoons were previously published in Pet Lovers’ Gazette © 1983, Pet Lovers’ Gazette .
For Stephen
I don’t know anything about men. I just know what I like.
Contents
About the Author
Foreword
Acknowledgments
1. Between Man and Dog
How we’ve lost the ability to understand our dogs deeply and how, by observing mother dogs communicate with and educate their young, we can return to Eden where man and animal lived in harmony.
2. Rewards and Punishments: Mother Knows Best
How to teach your puppy via rewards and corrections in the same humane, effective style his mother used.
3. Getting Organized
The mother dog’s priorities, how to establish your own, curriculum, vocabulary and tools for training your pet dog.
4. Basic Etiquette for Puppies
How to accomplish housebreaking, stop nipping and chewing, teach the pup to stay alone quietly, teach NO and OK for food, leash train. Some important words on bonding, affection and spoiling.
5. Basic Obedience Training
How to teach sit, stay, come, down, heel, stand, wait, go lie down, off, take it and out.
6. Off-Leash Puppy
How to begin safe, indoor, gamesmanlike off-leash work for young puppies for fun, confidence building and to set the stage for future reliable, off-leash street work without overtraining.
7. Trouble Shooting
Prevention and correction for the whole range of possible dog problems including those caused by owner fear.
8. Class
The value and limitations of obedience classes, how to evaluate them, how to set one up in your own neighborhood, how to add some wonderful games and exercises to traditional group obedience work, how to use class as grounding for future off-leash work.
9. Off-Leash Dog
How to tighten and escalate the basic commands into solid, classy, reliable off-leash street work, plus down from a distance, drop on recall, emergency down, come when called when loose and playing, off-leash heeling, the works!
10. Games to Play with Your Dog
How to play active, quiet, silly, intelligent games, games based on dogs’ instincts and talents, games that reenforce training, games that entertain, games that promote a good relationship and avoid accidental aggression training.
Index

Carol Lea Benjamin
About the Author
CAROL LEA BENJAMIN is a professional dog trainer and the author of Dog Training For Kids, Dog Tricks (with Capt. Arthur Haggerty), Running Basics, Dog Problems, The Wicked Stepdog (a novel), Cartooning For Kids and Nobody’s Baby Now (a novel). She writes the monthly column, Dog Trainer’s Diary, for Pure-bred Dogs: The American Kennel Gazette and has written articles about dog behavior and other topics for Better Homes and Gardens, Apartment Life, Medical Economics, Private Practice, The German Shepherd Dog Review, Runners World, Off Lead, Animals Magazine, Pet Lovers’ Gazette and other publications. Ms. Benjamin does seminars and clinics for dog trainers and pet owners all over the United States and has appeared on both radio and television answering questions about dog behavior and training. Ms. Benjamin lives in New York City and Gardiner, New York, with her husband, architect Stephen Lennard, and their German Shepherd Dog, Scarlet.
STEPHEN LENNARD is the Director of Planning and Project Management at Columbia University. His photographs have appeared in Animals Magazine, Off Lead, Pet Lovers’ Gazette and Pure-bred Dogs: The American Kennel Gazette .
Foreword
W HEN I GRADUATED veterinary school in 1966, I had a strong background in anatomy, physiology, medicine, surgery and other ancillary subjects that I felt prepared me well to treat the medical and surgical problems of my clients’ pets. Nowhere during my preveterinary curriculum nor during my four years at the N.Y.S. College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University was I exposed to an organized course in animal behavior or psychology.
I soon realized that many of the questions I was expected to answer and much of the advice I was expected to give were related to animal behavior. The behavior of a companion animal is probably the most important factor in determining how much an owner enjoys his or her pet. A serious problem with behavior, such as aggression, fear biting, house soiling, may lead to a pet’s demise as readily as being hit by a car or developing a serious, possibly untreatable, disease condition.
Carol Benjamin’s approach to understanding and directing a dog’s behavior is based on the fundamental premise that the domesticated dog is recently descended from a pack animal. From his first lesson with his mother, to his interactions with his siblings and finally in his interaction with adults both inside and outside the pack, his behavior is modified and directed to establish his place in the pack. Only by understanding this system can a natural method of behavior modification and training be undertaken. Using this method we will not ask the pet to understand a new form of training. Rather, we will use the method (as closely as we can mimic it) that has been used for generations to help the individual find his or her place in a new pack/family.
J EFFREY A. L A C ROIX , D.V.M.
E ASTON , C ONNECTICUT
Acknowledgments
The author wishes to thank the following friends, relatives and colleagues, each of whom contributed generously to the making of this book:
My agent, William Reiss; my publisher, Elsworth Howell; fellow trainers Job Evans and Marie Ehrenberg; Kathleen Harvey; Jeffrey La Croix, D.V.M.; Margaret Hoh; Bruce Wolk; Susan and Byron Bell; Rita and Bill Davis; Polly DeMille; Richard Siegel; Scott Biller; Carol and Bob Canfield; George J. Smith; Barbara Widmayer; Victoria Halboth and Stephen Lennard.
Thanks, too, to the following dogs, each of whom was kind enough to pose as “Buddy” for this book—with special thanks for those valiant few who took a correction for the purpose of educating others:
Benson, Lab mix; Deela (Christan’s Starry Night), Shetland Sheepdog; Ernie (Lind-Land’s Ernest Raymond), Sussex Spaniel; Franz (Ch. Charisma Grand Marnier); Standard Schnauzer; Jamie, Shepherd mix; J.J., English Springer Spaniel; Chelsea (Ch. Jacquet’s Chelsea), Boxer and her puppies; Maximus, Irish Wolfhound mix; Oliver (Oliver Fox Benjamin, CD), Golden Retriever; Fanny (Benjamin’s Gold-Rush Fanny), Golden Retriever and her puppies; Polo (Sutop’s Precious Puppers), Welsh Terrier and Scarlet (New Skete’s Kindred Spirit), German Shepherd Dog.
The cover photo is of Am. Can. Ch. Four K’s Mindy of Woodbury and her puppy, owned by John and Lynne Lounsbury (Jolly Kennels) and Ken and Bana Southworth. Photo by Stephen Lennard.
It would be unfair indeed not to thank my parents for almost always saying yes when my sibling and I said, “Please may we keep him? He