Good Dog, Bad Dog, New and Revised: Dog Training Made Easy (Hardcover)
Amazon.com Review
Revised for the ’90s, the second edition of Good Dog, Bad Dog serves up the same sound training philosophy–one grounded in love, praise, and affection–found in the original and offers updated and expanded information that enables you to tailor Fido’s training according to his temperament. Authors Mordecai Siegal and Matthew Margolis introduce readers to the five basic canine temperament types–strong-willed, shy, high-energy/outgoing, calm/easygoing, and aggressive–and then discuss every aspect of training, from housebreaking, sit, stay, and heel, to down-stay, come when called, and problem behavior, providing “customized training techniques to match the various personalities.” A new chapter on bonding with your dog and an expanded dictionary of training behavior for more than 100 breeds makes Good Dog, Bad Dog a training treat good for dogs and owners alike. –Stefanie Hargreaves
From Publishers Weekly
Siegal and Margolis, coauthors of When Good Dogs Do Bad Things , have revised and greatly expanded their 1971 classic. Their bent here is explicit rejection of “the ‘one size fits all’ approach to dog training.” Readers are first urged to identify their dogs by personality type: high-energy/outgoing, shy, strong-willed, calm/easygoing or aggressive. Then, as the writers outline a basic obedience course, from housebreaking to heeling, they describe the proper techniques (specifying the owner’s frame of mind, body language, tone of voice, type of voice corrections and leash corrections, and place to train) and propose modifications for each temperament. This strategy is not completely convincing–not every dog will fit in the categories designated–but their instructions are so thorough, clear and patently grounded in good judgment that even a first-time owner will soon have Rover equably in tow. An added boon for fanciers, an appendix draws on Margolis’s experience in schooling about 25,000 dogs to profile individual breeds in terms of their general responses to training. Good Dog, Bad Dog , good book. Publicity.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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One of the best books out there
I bought this book many years ago when we firt came out with it and I have to say it is the best training book I have ever used.
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Good book, but recommend another for puppies
This has great training info, but limited puppy information as compared to “Good Owners, Great Dogs”. Good dog bad dog has a lot of temperment information if that’s what you need.
as a dog trainer & affecionado, i find this book a must-have, since it acknowledges the different training methods for different temperments of dogs. this is the only book i’ve read (out of more than i can count!) that goes into detail on the different corrections & praises appropriate for each temperment of dog. surely you cannot correct a dominant rottweiler the same way as a skittish yorkshire terrier! this book also gives recommendations to the most common behavior problems. he also has a brief synopsis with training recommendations for the most common breeds and i have yet to have come across a breed to train that is not in this book. if you buy only one book, buy this one! (if you buy two, buy “mother knows best”)
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Good Dog, Dead Dog
Before I give my review, a few facts. Dogs are the first domesticated animal, with humans selectively “designing” canis familiaris, beginning somewhere around 14,000 to 200,000…
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Do not purchase
These books relies entirely on the use of aversives (collar choking) with dog training and does not use strong positive reinforcers like food.
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Out dated methods
There is some basic good information in this book, but there are many out dated methods also. I like using positive techniques and this book suggests otherwise for some dogs.
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Uncle Matty’s the best!
I live in Southern California where we hear Uncle Matty on the radio, and I got one of his trainers to come out and work with our dogs. It works!!
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Missing some key points
This book is great if you have a dog that is having problems with obedience. It keys on different dog personalities and ways for the dog to become obedient.
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Missing some key points
This book is great if you have a dog that is having problems with obedience. It keys on different dog personalities and ways for the dog to become obedient.
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Good General Info - Too cursory on breeds!
We own a 95% basenji, so naturally we turned to the “expanded” breed entries. It was barely a full page, and some information was just plain wrong!
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Good Dog, Bad Dog: Dog Training Made Easy
Informative and witty, but the substance of training gets lost in all the excess verbiage, making it difficult to zero in on specific training.