Reviews for Catch Your Dog Doing Something Right: How to Train Any Dog in Five Minutes a Day

The average rating for Catch Your Dog Doing Something Right: How to Train Any Dog in Five Minutes a Day based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-01-21 00:00:00 Nathan Luce At this point I'm in the repetition game of dog training, where I just need to hear the same information over and over in a new way. So this book fulfilled that purpose for me, and while reading it I've gotten my dog to the point of walking on a loose leash when there are no distractions around (unfortunately "distractions" at this point still includes other family members). The book is a win for me in that sense. I also appreciated the tests in the first half that can help you determine your dog's intelligence (higher than expected), motivations (food food and more food), and learning style (fooooooooood). The book also ties the training back into the dog's brain. Instead of expecting an automaton who does whatever you want without questioning, Cantrell teaches you to think about how your dog thinks about things, and to engage that part of your dog when training. She also highlights focusing on only ONE thing at a time. That should be obvious, but here I was working on "heel" and "come" during different training sessions. Once I focused only on "heel" we made much quicker progress. I got a little tired of the "playSMART" references throughout, like it was this ground-breaking, copyrighted method (and I wouldn't be surprised if the term was copyrighted). But I wish she would have introduced her training method as playSMART and then not thrown it in every other sentence the rest of the book. The fact is, while I liked the presentation of ideas (other than the playSMART term), it's the same information I've been finding in the other dog training books I've read. It felt really....overbranded to hear over and over again "when you use the playSMART method" and I almost walked away from the book early on because of it.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-05-16 00:00:00 Kenneth Willman Loved this book! I love to read books by people who love the topic...just wish I could find a book called "The everything child book" by the same type of author-- one who loves children as much as dog lovers love dogs!