Reviews for Help For Your Shy Dog

The average rating for Help For Your Shy Dog based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-09-02 00:00:00 Kesha Skaggs An excellent book full of stories of dogs that have triumphed over their fearfulness, complete with case history and steps taken in their training. This book offers several different options for training, depending int the circumstances and exact fears/reactions of your dog. Sully (Pembroke Welsh Corgi) was fear aggressive towards dogs, and extremely shy around strangers, children, skittish on slick surfaces, around loud noises and quick movements. He now has multiple obedience and rally titles and is happy to be out and about, loves to greet people and is completely controllable around other dogs. He's still not friendly with them but he doesn't react to them either, which is just fine with me!

Review # 2 was written on 2008-02-26 00:00:00 Timothy Jennett After talking at length with a "dog whisperer" proponent, I decided that his approach would be likely to upset and scare Ginny more, so I checked this book out of the library. I found it much more sensible. The author talks about several specific dogs and their owners, and how the dogs went on to overcome various fear behaviors and go on to win obedience and agility shows. Her three main pieces of advice are: 1) make everything as positive as possible, 2) act confident and show your dog you believe in her capability, and 3) have patience, recognize that fearful dogs will take longer to get them where you want them -- sometimes much longer. She took her own fearful dog to beginning obedience class 5 times before advancing to intermediate.