Training Your German Shepherd Dog

Training Your Dog

by Dan Rice

Barron's Training Your Dog titles offer breed-specific advice on virtually every aspect of canine training, including housebreaking, obedience to basic verbal commands and hand signals, retrieving, and walking the dog on a leash. These books also discuss humane methods for breaking a dog's bad habits. The German Shepherd is intelligent and a quick learner, which makes him highly trainable. However, training of this fine dog should begin early in life. German Shepherds are best suited to owners who are calmly authoritative and consistent in their training methods.

208 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1999

Reviews

[Alexander H***l · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall a good book on German Shepards and the different styles of training the breed. The book is more of an overview than a guide on how to train the breed. It does contain some useful pages on manners, house training and basic commands.

[Glennis OBrien · Rating 4 out of 5]

gives you basic skills for basic training

[Igor · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this book. It contains lots of good tips on how to educate a GSD. I also enjoyed the many good pictures of GSDs displaying their traits and showing their skills. However, one can follow the advice, attempt to teach the lessons, ask for obedience, beg for mercy, but if the dog wants to follow the car, jump on the cyclist, tear your shirt or hide your socks, he WILL DO IT!! Perhaps I did not pay enough attention to all the details about training, or Bronco has a heart the size of a mountain, capable of expressing immeasurable and unconditional love, plus the strength of a locomotive and the will of bull, but he has proven to be nearly untrainable. He’s quit hiding my socks, but I already gave up on things such as “search and rescue” training. Forget also about “bomb and weapon detection”. I guess I cannot blame Dan Rice’s book...

[Samantha snyder]

i really want to cause of my dog