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The Koehler Method of Dog Training
Published on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 by jenny
Product Description
Since its first appearance in 1962, this popular dog training book has gone through 38 printings and sold more than 475,000 copies. The instructions and training approaches given here can be equally successful with groups in a training class environment or for individuals training alone. This new edition presents a pertinent update of AKC Novice obedience requirements. 46 illustrations…. More >>
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I ordered this book and never recieved it although my CC was charged for it so if any one can tell me what it says I would appreciate it.
Rating: 1 / 5
NO WAY, NO HOW. Harsh, cruel methods of dog training are UNNECESSARY and is ANIMAL ABUSE. Read Ceasar Milasn’s books (he’s known as “The Dog Whisperer”), to learn kind, effective leadership skills, in order to properly train your dog to do ANYTHING you want him/ her to do. Learning Caesar Milan’s ways has helped me teach hundreds of dogs to behave, and become housetrained, loving, mindful companions, eager to please their guardians.
The Koehler Method of Dog Training by William R. Koehler IS A WASTE OF TIME, MONEY AND YOU JUST DON’T NEED IT. IT’S ANTQUATED, UNKIND ANIMAL BULLYING. DO NOT BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rating: 1 / 5
You would never know, if you read only this book, that it could be fun to live with dogs — in Koehler’s world, dogs are sneaky and nasty and always trying to get over on you. His solution to every training problem is to choke, hang, beat, or half-drown the dog (that’s how to handle digging, folks). Oh, did I mention electric shock? Electric shock is very big with Koehler.
Sure, you can produce a dog who’s too scared of you to make a move without permission — but if you’d rather have a joyful, compliant, eager companion, if you’d like to train according to methods proven effective by years of research and practical experience in animal learning, read Pat Miller, Ian Dunbar, Jean Donaldson, Karen Pryor. There’s nothing weak or silly about teaching your dog to work for a living by rewarding the behavior you like. The difference between Koehler and an effective trainer who is also kind is that Koehler’s idea of a “reward” seems to be to let the dog go on breathing. Some of us think life can be more pleasant than that.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book will give you some really great ideas on how to ABUSE your dog.
I was forced to buy this book at the orientation for an obedience class. I was told not to read ahead but I read the whole book anyway. I never went back to the class.
I suppose Koehler’s methods of choking, beating, and drwoning your dog will help you build a wonderful bond. Perhaps the kind of twisted bond that keeps many battered woman from leaving abusive relationships.
Repulsive.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book is NOT, I repeat NOT a dog training book. This is a book for abusers. Sure I might look at it if I had the most “vicious” dog in the world, had tried EVERY other method of dog training in the world and it was a choice between this and death to the dog. Koehler’s methods for problem dogs might
are unbeleviable. I was reading reveiws and one said stuff about Koehler’s suggestions for digging holes, chewing, barking. I didn’t beleive it, because it was clearly abuse. So I went to the library and looked at the book. For digging holes it went something like filling the digging hole with water stuffing the dogs head down into it and holding it there until the dog is convinced that he is going to drown. For chewing Koehler said to stuff the chewed object in the dog’s mouth and tape the muzzle together so the dog could not spit it out. I have saved the last for worst, barking. Koehler suggested getting a belt and beating your dog with it when it barked.(If you don’t beleive me go check the book out at the library) Now is that abuse or not? Hmmm…. For tradional trainers I reccommend the Monks of New Skete. For clicker trainiers I reccommend “The Power of Positive Dog Training” and last for people who want positive(not neccesary clicker) I reccommend Ian Dunbar’s work. Last I beg, for the sake of your dogs, not to buy this book. It is very much wrong and and its ideas are abusive.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book is a great tool, and like all training methods, you should adjust based on your dogs individual personality and needs. This is a great method for a dog that is bouncing off the walls, however, a dog that is timid would require more care and refinement. A Koehler trained dog is ultimately a decision maker, a thinker, and develops a much deeper bond with their human rather than the dog motivated by treats. A dog that works for treats is easily identifiable over a dog that works for praise and out of joy of working. The Koehler method gives your dog the credit he deserves, he has a big brain…let him use it! He wants to please you!
Koehler relies on the principal that one harsh correction is better than a lifetime of nagging timid corrections that lead to an unresponsive, dull dog with no confidence in you as a leader, or alternatively a dog with no confidence in himself. Dogs love assertive people and seek them as a pack leader. The harsh correction is often a self correction, for example when teaching the dog on the long leash, and each correction is countered with TREMENDOUS PRAISE when the dog makes the right decision. The dog quickly distinguishes the correct answer and begins seeking that big praise reward time after time.
As for the controversial methods, such as the hole digging/water fix or the shoe chewing…these are addressed in the last portion of the book and are last resort methods…for dogs that may have been destroyed if they weren’t able to fix the undesirable behaviors.
For general obedience training, you can’t beat Koehler. Most trainers will never need the second portion of the text. But for the dog with behavioral issues that are keeping him from finding a happy home, this might be the last resort that helps him become a good citizen and that shouldn’t be discredited.
Lauren. How about you read Cesar Millan’s book: Cesar’s way before you start praising Koehler. Cesar has brought red zone (deadly dogs on the verge of destruction) back into society the way a pack leader in the wild would. Koehler’s method only breaks dogs and is for those that have not the even hand of a true leader so they must make their dog afraid of them. You are contradictory. You say Koehler’s method creates a decision maker, and thinker and to let your dog use their brain… Koehler’s method does not tolerate a dog making decisions for itself, and the only thing it can do is think. If we had the ability to read their minds though I’m sure he’d recommend you strangle that thought out of them before they make a decision on it. Beating your dog and feeding it treats aren’t the only way. If you looked at wolves in the wild and how a pack leader works you’d know that. Pack leaders don’t subject their members to torture nor do they feed them treats… a wolf will not follow an abusive and out of control leader. It will however follow someone who is fair but assertive. It’s people like Koehler (who have no understanding of dog psychology) that creates people like you, that create dogs like the one’s who end up being rehabilitated by Cesar and people like him. It’s a disgusting cycle and I wish only that there were more Cesar’s in this world to rectify the problem.