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My dog training classes and privates and training manuals blend effective, humane management techniques with positive reinforcement training methods. I believe that positive reinforcement training is the most effective and humane method of creating happy, eager, and joyful partnerships between animals and humans these are all designed to help you teach your dog self-control. A dog with self-control will never be out-of-control.

SO What is Positive Reinforcement? It is a training method based on the science of operant conditioning (which is a set of scientific principles about why animals change their behavior). Behavior is changed when it is reinforced. You will learn the fun, the joy, the challenge and the effectiveness of training your dog by positively reinforcing behaviors you want. And today I'll show you how, through good management, proper reinforcement and class room set up to help you “Get" the behaviors you want and to extinguish behaviors you don't want. You will learn to lead, but not to dominate.

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Changing People Changing Dogs
by Dee Ganley CPDT, CABC

Dee Ganley is a skilled dog trainer, handler and instructor having 30+ years experience in the field of dog training. Dee specializes in difficult dogs and has been very successful as a canine behavior consultant in the New England area recommended by veterinarians, past clients and colleagues.  Dee has recently been traveling and giving workshops and lectures in North America and Europe helping trainers, handlers and shelter folks help their four footed friends.

In “Changing People Changing Dogs”, Dee provides an easy-to-read compilation of strategies, techniques, exercises and scent games to address canine fear and aggression issues, based on the science of learning theory combined with Dee's insight as a trainer. “Changing People Changing Dogs” is filled with simple and effective exercises - more than 50 that will have you and your dog, or your clients and their dogs, well on the way to a happy relationship.

A good behavior counselor has great problem solving skills, while working with high-risk cases. It takes a calm demeanor, great interviewing skills, good detective work, good practical sound advice and a huge training toolbox full of great strategies and techniques to be a competent behavior consultant. In “Changing People Changing Dogs you will find 50 + exercise and techniques to help you help your clients. If your not a trainer and you just own a dog with behavioral challenges, this book will help you too!

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Create a Happy Eager and Fun Relationship with your Dog!

Dee Ganley and Nancy Lyon have created a training manual that highlights their dog training philosophy.

The dedication, written by Nancy, appears in the front of the manual:

"Dedication

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."

Dee and I are two of those "kind" of people who find joy and solace being with dogs. We are happiest in their company and proud to have earned their trust.  We have experienced the deeply civilized "conversations" that happen between well trained dogs and their handlers. We know that we are better people - more just, more open-minded, much kinder and certainly happier - because of the friendship of our dog partners. More...

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From Fear to Joy

 “Fear to Joy”  is a manual that helps you use techniques to help shy and or reactive dogs feel more comfortable in new situations.  Using socialization, desensitization techniques for nervous dogs to gain confidence with people and other animals.  Addressing the importance of being confident and calm.

 

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Teaching Self-Control to Shelter Dogs
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Our use of reinforcement and time outs to teach self-control in every part of the shelter dog's life with us is central to our success.  To learn the dog must be able to think and to think requires self-control.

What is the opposite of self-control?  OUT-OF-CONTROL!!!  Being out-of-control is what sends almost all our shelter dogs to us.  Obedience behavior by itself doesn't teach self-control.  We start with the absolute basics.  We use what the dog wants and show him how to "manipulate" us to get it. 

  • To leave the kennel, the door won't open unless I back up. 
  • To get attention and treats at the kennel then I have to put my butt on the ground. 
  • To go for a walk I have to wear a gentle leader or sensation-harness and not pull while out walking. 

These aren't obedience behaviors, they are self-control behaviors - but they are what 99% of the pet owning public desperately wants from their pets. 

We have trained everyone to positively reinforce for calm, thoughtful behavior.  We have learned how not to reinforce out-of-control behavior.  We know "Dogs do what works" and we have found ways to make self-control work.

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Happy Kids, Happy Dogs: Building a Friendship Right from the Start

by Barbara Shumannfang

Children are the most frequent victims of dog bites and 80 % of such bites come from the family dog, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Help your dog and your baby become friends. Happy Kids, Happy Dogs offers easy to follow dog training exercises presented according to your child’s developmental stages. You will find dozens of instructional photographs, a kid-canine quiz, what to do if your child is afraid of dogs, and the three secrets to a well-behaved dog. Recommended by the prenatal programs at Duke Health and the University of North Carolina Women’s Hospital. Partial profits from sales of Happy Kids, Happy Dogs go to non-profit groups that help at-risk youth and shelter dogs.

$16.95

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The Golden Bridge

A Guide to Assistance Dogs for Children Challenged by Autism or Other Developmental Disabilities

by Patty Dobbs Gross

In The Golden Bridge: A Guide to Assistance Dogs for Children Challenged by Autism or Other Developmental Disabilities, Patty Dobbs Gross provides both personal as well as professional advice on how specially bred and trained dogs help to facilitate communication for children with autism and other developmental disabilities.  This important information compendium is a guide for parents raising a child who is on the autism spectrum, with old myths and new research concerning autism explored, examined and redefined.

$24.95

Visit Purdue University Press for more information. Can also be ordered through Amazon.com (Currently listed for $15.72 on Amazon.)

Dee contributed two chapters to The Golden Bridge: Socialization and Selecting a Puppy.

Dee Ganley CPDT/CABC/CDBC
PO Box 19, E. Andover NH 03231
Telephone: (603) 735-5543
E-Mail: dee@deesdogs.com
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