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Training With a Friendly Face (2003), 89pp, $12

The first book in a three-book series, Aunty Kaye's Guide to Surviving Your Dog's First Year of Life, Training With a Friendly Face gives you a detailed introduction to positive reinforcement, that is using rewards to train your dog.


CHAPTER HEADINGS

    Introduction                                        

    1. Using rewards                                 

    2. Your relationship with your dog       

    3 Lure-reward training                       

    4. Clicker training                               

    5. What method to use?                      

    6. Use of food in training                    

    7. Praising your dog                           

    8. The *STAR* system                        

    9. Unwanted behaviour                      

    10. Choosing a good class                  

    Conclusion                                         

Introduction - extract

Training is about behaviour - what your dog does or doesn’t do. It is also about emotions - how you and your dog feel about the behaviour.

In recent years we have seen the emergence of a new approach to dog training - “positive training”. “Positive training” is training with a friendly face. Instead of the traditional method of stern commands, verbal reprimands and physical discipline known as “correction”, it uses rewards to reinforce desirable behaviour, and to create in your dog a happy and co-operative attitude.

Over the same period, we have also seen the emergence of a new purpose in dog training - one that is concerned with producing a friendly, sociable, well-controlled dog suited to being a pet in today’s society. This contrasts with the purpose of traditional training methods which were developed to produce working dogs, show dogs or obedience trial competitors.
Training with a friendly face is both humane and practical. If you are new to dog training, I hope you will find these methods eminently sensible. Unless you have experienced some of the older methods, you may not realise what a departure from the mainstream this represents.

We have over fifty years of behavioural knowledge on which to base our training methods. Compared to the traditional approach to training, positive training is more humane, effective and practical, as well as being more acceptable to most modern pet owners.

Friendly training produces a dog that is happy and willing to do what you want, rather than a dog who is defiant or resentful, and trying (with endless ingenuity) to get away with doing what you don’t want. Friendly training is calm and relaxed. You can quietly reward your dog for being well behaved, rather than yelling and stressing out over a dog who is out of control and unruly.

Positive trainers commonly use two main techniques, known as “clicker training” and “lure-reward” training, or a combination of the two. You’ll  meet these later.

 

REVIEWS

 

How exciting to find a dog training book, with easy to follow instructions by an AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR!!!

Kaye Hargreaves is a Melbourne Dog Trainer with years of experience in “positive”, reward-based training who, with encouragement from dog training “Guru” Dr Ian Dunbar, has written a series of 3 Booklets on reward-based training.

I have just finished reading the first one “Training with a Friendly Face” and can thoroughly recommend it. (I’m not related to Kaye and I’m not on commission ☺)

Quoting from the “blurb” on the back of the book: “Training with a Friendly Face …, will give you a brief introduction to positive reinforcement-training – training with a friendly face. Why do it and how does it work? You will learn how to train with rewards, when to use food and also when not to. You will also learn how to use your voice to praise your dog and how to teach the meaning of signals and cues (“commands” as they are sometimes called). Many people don’t realise that you can use reward-based training to deal with unwanted behaviour as well as for teaching desirable behaviour.

Finally, you will be given some advice on how to choose a training class, one that uses positive training methods, which reflect the friendly face of dog training.

So whether you are attending classes or training by yourself, these books will give you help and guidance in positive training.”

I particularly liked Kaye’s format of including “Three Hot tips”, “Main Pitfalls” and a summary called “Top 10 Pointers” in each chapter. It helped draw it all together and emphasise the important points of each  chapter for me.

I also thought the chapter on Training classes was particularly helpful ☺.

If you are the sort of person who likes to know why and how things work and why you are being asked to do things in a particular way – you will appreciate Kaye’s explanations of the different types of positive training and their elements.
Angela Hervey-Tennyson

 

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