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K9 Schutzhund Training: A Manual for Tracking, Obedience and Protection | 
 enlarge | Authors: Resi Gerritsen, Resi Gerritson
Creator: Ruud Haak
Publisher: Detselig Enterprises Ltd.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 105580
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 155059205X
Dewey Decimal Number: 636
EAN: 9781550592054
ASIN: 155059205X
Publication Date: October 15, 2000
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Book Description
Professional Schutzhund trainers and instructors Resi Gerritsen and Ruud Haak bring their years of knowledge and experience together in this book, K9 Schutzhund Training. Appropriate for training dogs for both protection work and for international sport dog certification and competition, the content is designed to be an especially practical training method. Founded on the idea that effective training can only happen when a good bond and good communication exist between handler and dog, this method allows individual handler-dog teams to progress at their own speed. Different breeds, and individual dogs, may require different lengths of time and repetition to effectively learn to perform the exercises contained in this book. While many trainers claim a dog can be trained to perform to this level in only a few weeks, the authors show that effective, long-lasting results can only be achieved with time and patience, and especially, that training methods which force the dog to perform under stress or duress are doomed to produce dogs which lack confidence and perform inconsistently. The three sections of this book focus on tracking, obedience and protection.
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 Spend your money on a better book. July 14, 2002
83 out of 85 found this review helpful
This book is a major disappointement. I borrowed it from my library prior to deciding whether to purchase it and I'm glad I did. People familiar with Schutzhund training will get nothing from this book. For people new to the sport it will provide a decent description of the exercises within each phase and the necessary equipment, but little else.It provides almost nothing in the way of sound training advice and problem solving. The methods employed by the authors are so antiquated in some instances as to be almost laughable, e.g. introducing a dog to heeling by the leash & jerk method. The training for protection work is particularly inadequate and might very well be dangerous to a neophyte wishing to employ these methods. As if that weren't enough, the authors repeatedly interchange the masculine and feminine pronouns within paragraphs throughout the book, making things sometimes confusing but more often just plain irritating. For first timers the only book to read, and an excellent one at that, is Schutzhund: Theory and Training Methods by Susan Barwig and Stewart Hilliard. Those who already own that book would do well to add Advanced Schutzhund by Ivan Balabanov and Top Working Dogs by Dietmar Schellenberg to their collections. All three books are available at Amazon, all three are cheaper than K9 Schutzhund Training, and all three are worthy of the paper they are printed on.
 k9 schutzhund training January 29, 2002
8 out of 69 found this review helpful
i would love to reveiw this book and own it.
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