Anyone know anything about training dogs?

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Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

I grew up with choke chains and lots of shaping by aggressive punishment. Now as an adult I realize these methods suck (and the Veterinary Association or whatever their organization is called is backing me up). It's called positive training or something along those lines. Sorry, I tend to screen out hippy-lingo.

Anyway, since this forum is full of people with IQs slightly higher than the rest of the Internet, I'd like to ask if any of you have any training experience or tips or books or whatever regarding dogs.

I plan on getting one someday, if you were wondering.

That's rather cool of you to say, how this forum is full of smart people compared to other places on the internet.

Anyway, another person you could probably check out is Warren Eckstein. He's an animal behaviorist. He's not really so big on the pack leader mentality though. I'm a huge animal person, so I listen to his radio talk show here on Saturdays whenever I can. People seem to think he has good advice, so I thought I'd suggest him since Cesar Millian has been mentioned.