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Ruff Love: A Relationship Building Program for You and Your Dog ReviewI've been training seriously since 1996, and this book was just the shake-up I need. Susan Garett does NOT recommend crating dogs all day long! This is a program about controlling reinforcement in the environment so that as the dog shows increasing self-control, s/he earns increasing privileges. My dogs are very soft. I have a genetically shy/reactive waterdog, and a bichon (he's the toughest one!) and a formerly feral dog (a dog who was born on a beach in PR, and lived wild there for the first year of his life). For the past year, I let them sleep in my bed, on the furniture, rough house etc, and they trust me, they're happy, plus, they take me and my training opportunities for granted! Though that period of permissiveness I think was good, as they are very creative and happy and playful, now I want them to have a deeper self-control, simply because I want to give them even more privileges eventually. I want my dogs to respond dependably and instantly off leash around big distractions. I want their performance skills to snap on quickly, so that we can go new places and have fun. So this program helped me to see the times that my permissiveness is not working in our training favor. I went for a training walk today (actually doing this program isn't easy. I am training recalls three times a day! And I'm supposed to do that for at least six or seven weeks!) and when I got home instead of just letting my dog loose to play in the yard, I crated him for an hour while I worked with the other dog and had lunch. I notice that these short little crating periods during the day are making my dogs far more eager to work. It seems to help them value training periods, as the training periods are now the "best" part of their day -- rather than the part they want to rush through so they can get to dig in the garden! Garrett is asking us to shift our own "permissiveness" level in accordance with our dog's behavior, and teach dog to earn privileges rather than just beg or steal them. Every trainer will need to adapt the program according to what they have time to do, and what they really want out of their lives with their dogs.Reading her book through the lens of what I already understand about operant and classical conditioning, stimulus and response, her program is about being disciplined enough to pull unintentional reinforcements out of our training environments, and then putting those reinforcements back in when and where we want them. If you are a serious trainer, and your ultimate goal for your dog(s) is to really give your dog(s) the kind of self-control that makes a life full of privileges possible, get this book, read it and give it a try.Ruff Love: A Relationship Building Program for You and Your Dog Overview

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