ABC Practical Guide to Dog Training
Chapter One
A Dog Story
I am a professional dog trainer and have been one since 1980. I started
my business by drawing a flyer (I always fancied myself a bit of an
artist), making copies and posting them on bulletin boards in local
markets around the San Fernando Valley in North Los Angeles. The
first month in business I got 10 customers using this technique, and
from that day forward I worked as a full-time trainer. Looking back, I
cringe at what I thought I knew and, with the perspective of time, what
I didn't know.
Like most of you reading this book, I've always had a deep, passionate
love of animals in general and dogs in particular. This was true
at a very young age. One of my earliest memories is walking down the
street and having a large German Shepherd Dog come running up to
me. The dog, whose face was just about even with mine (I was six at
the time), sniffed me, and I happily let him while I scratched his side.
Thirty-seven years later, I can still see his leg going thump, thump,
thump on the sidewalk as I scratched a nice, sensitive spot on his body.
He then p ... read full excerpt from ABC Practical Guide to Dog Training ebook
