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 The
dog training ebooks and books of Silvia Kent warm my heart from
the first page, because of the loving and practical way she
writes about our relationships with dogs.
They provide a lot of useful information, based on her many years
as a dog trainer.
As ebooks, they are immediately downloadable so you can be reading
them right away. Some of them are also available as books, and where
that's the case, I include links.
First I'll give you an overview of these dog training ebooks and
books, then the bottom of this page talks about Silvia Kent's many
experiences in dog training.
What are these dog training ebooks?
There are five of them, and you can get them individually or as
package at a discount price. I review each one on its own page...
 Dynamic
Dog Training
outlines how to teach dogs, using rewards, encouragement and praise.
It covers how a dog learns as well. About half the 111-page ebook
covers specific exercises, including sit, come, stand, down, stay
and wait, fetch, find and search. Here's my page
reviewing the ebook in more detail here, or you can order
the ebook directly here.
 Overcoming
Dog Behaviour Problems
is a combination of several booklets she wrote: Solving Dog
Problems, Aggression, Rescued Dog, Separation Anxiety, House Training,
and Good Dog! My review of it
is here, or you can order it from this link.
It's also available as a book. Click
here to buy the physical book -- called Overcoming Dog Problems
-- from Dogwise.
 Your
Dog and Your Baby
One of Silvia Kent's most popular books, this gives you practical
advice if you have a dog and are expecting a baby, or if you have
a baby or small children and want a dog. Here's
my review page about it, and here's
where to order it.
You
can get the book from Dogwise by clicking here.
 Take
the Class: The Dog Obedience Instructor's Handbook
This is a set of three ebooks plus reminder sheets to give out
to students between classes. Here's
my review page about it, and here's
where to order it.
You
can get the book from Dogwise by clicking here.
 The
Harmony Program
describes her approach to dog training based on respect, love,
and the list of ideas at the bottom of this page. This ebook is
written for dog behavior counselors but would be interesting to
other people as well.
Here's my review page about it,
and here's
where to order it as an ebook. It's only available in ebook
format.
 Package
of the entire collection
in ebook format, almost 40% off the combined total prices.
Click here to order the set of ebooks for $47.87.
What is Silvia Kent's approach to dog training?
Love.
I'd better explain that a bit more...
She began learning about dog training over 20 years, when she took
a class with Rio, the black German Shepherd shown in the photo at
the top of the this page. This was in England, where she lives.
"It was all very traumatic back then, with choke chains and
so much shouting and negativity, and not just at the dogs, I may
add. The brutal methods used at the club I was at didn't work for
me at all; they made my dog depressed and unwilling to do anything
much... So I started learning about dog training and behaviour,
and I experimented at home with what worked and what didn't,"
she says.
She became a dog training instructor herself and started a new
dog training club with some friends. Berwick Obedience Association
(BOA) became a large dog training organization, with over 20 locations,
7 senior instructors and 30 assistants.
"All of us who were involved in BOA were determined to be
the best we could, and to this end we took any training... We acquired
virtually every book ever written on the subject of dog training
and behaviour, and behavioural science, and anything else that would
help us create classes and strategies that would really work for
any kind of owner with any kind of dog. We talked endlessly amongst
ourselves, tested approaches, discussed methods and argued furiously
on occasion," she remembers.
Some of Silvia Kent's Ideas related to Dog Training
These ideas were quite unconventional when she first developed
them and are still not accepted everywhere:
Dogs have emotions.
Dogs and people form meaningful, mature relationships with
all the complications that entails.
Without love between an owner and their dog, you might as
well give up and go home - it's the most essential ingredient
in all dog training and behaviour modification attempts.
Dogs understand much, much more than just simple command words.
If you speak to dogs in real language, with real meaning,
they do understand you on a very profound level.
Dogs are not just stimulus-response robots.
They're smart and they have their own agenda, and each one
is an individual in their own right.
Somewhere along the line, Silvia Kent became Silvia Hartmann-Kent
and now she goes by Silvia Hartmann. Much of her work now is related
to Emotional Freedom Techniques or EFT, a ground-breaking method
of working with people mainly. In 2001 she created an online training
course for Animal Energy Healers; click
here to find out more about it.
To learn more about her dog training ideas, do read my reviews,
each one on its own page, of her books/ebooks:
Dynamic Dog Training
Overcoming Dog Behavior Problems
Your Dog and Your Baby
Take the Class: The Dog Obedience
Instructor's Handbook
The Harmony Program
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