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Dog Training in 10 Minutes (Howell reference books)
Dog Training in 10 Minutes (Howell reference books)

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Author: Carol Lea Benjamin
Publisher: Howell Book House
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 7 reviews
Sales Rank: 63122

Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.3

ISBN: 0876054718
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.70887
UPC: 021898054715
EAN: 9780876054710
ASIN: 0876054718

Publication Date: January 6, 1997
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Product Description
"Carol Lea Benjamin is the finest writer about dogs we have today." —Job Michael Evans, former Monk of New Skete and author of the best-selling How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend

Dog Training in 10 Minutes is Carol Lea Benjamin's dog-training book for the 1990s, geared specifically for people short on time but long on intention. Chapters cover:

  • How to Know What Your Dog Is Feeling
  • Teaching via Praise and Correction
  • The Bare Minimum (Sit; Give Your Paw; Housetraining; How to Stop Your Dog from Pulling)
  • Ten Secrets of Problem Correction
  • Ten Ways to Play
There's even a "Ten Minute Work-Out" to do before leaving your dog alone—a great way to calm and satisfy your dog. With its down-to-earth style, practical advice and emphasis on the dog-owner relationship, Dog Training in 10 Minutes is sure to follow in the wildly successful paw prints of Carol's other books: Mother Knows Best: The Natural Way to Train Your Dog: Surviving Your Dog's Adolescence; Second Hand Dog: How to Turn Yours into a First-Rate Pet; Dog Problems; Dog Tricks (with Captain Arthur Haggerty); Dog Training for Kids; and The Chosen Puppy: How to Select and Raise a Great Puppy from an Animal Shelter
A Howell Dog Book of Distinction



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4 out of 5 stars Training wheels for first time dog owners   May 5, 2008
Either this is the perfect simple book for first time dog owners, or I have a really awesomely smart dog. Or BOTH. I got this when i got my first dog (still got her) 10 yrs ago. There are basics here that sadly many veteran dog owners have never figured out. simple syllables. Eye contact. Canine hierarchy, Dog mindset. My dog responded well to 90 percent of what I learned... er, I mean taught her. Its concise and direct. I've given it as a gift on more than one occasion.


5 out of 5 stars Simple and accurate   April 7, 2008
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

As a very busy but dog-loving professional, I used the techniques in the book to keep my dog happy and obedient. It works! and they are so simple... it is a must/read.


2 out of 5 stars Some Good Advice, with an Unfortunate Streak of Meanness   March 3, 2007
 8 out of 9 found this review helpful

I like Carol Lea Benjamin. Back in the 1980s, when I first became interested in dog training, and the alpha theory still held sway, she was the least brutal of the popular dominance mavens of the time. (i.e., "How hard should you hit your dog? If she doesn't yelp in pain, you haven't hit her hard enough." -The Monks of New Skete.) Since those days Benjamin has become a mystery novelist, and I really liked her first foray into detective fiction. (See my review of THIS DOG FOR HIRE.) I also share some of her antipathy for the methods espoused by so-called positive trainers. As a result I'm hesitant to write a negative review of this book.

So I'll start by saying there are good bits or advice sprinkled here and there, like not giving a pup more freedom than he can handle, or that more vigorous daily exercise means less nervous tension. Or the idea that aggression is usually the result of excess tension (which is partially true; it's based on fear). And I have to tell you that many of Benjamin's training exercises are very, very good ones. But unfortunately, readers are told repeatedly that it all comes down to showing the dog that you're alpha. How do you deal with an aggressive dog? "You must become alpha." Over and over she says this kind of thing. But given the recent evidence showing that wild wolves don't really form dominance hierarchies, that the pack is actually more of a cooperative society than was previously believed, it's hard to know how and why Carol Lea Benjamin would still be hanging onto this ridiculous, bone-dead belief. As a result of her alpha mindset there's a streak of meanness throughout this and, come to think of it, throughout all her training books. Granted, she's not as brutal as the Monks or Bash Dibra or Cesar Millan, but one passage in DOG TRAINING IN 10 MINUTES really points out a major character flaw.

Benjamin says that it's all right to really yell your head off at the dog for certain types of what she believes to be "deliberate" misbehavior (dogs don't do anything deliberately, Ms. Benjamin; they act on instinct and impulse, not careful planning). To deal with such behaviors she recommends grabbing the dog by the cheeks and collar and screaming in his face for a minimum of ten seconds. "In those ten seconds," she writes, "your justifiable anger is pointing right at your dog, and because you are holding his rotten face, he can't turn away."

His rotten face? This is not dog training, it's venting. And, as I try to gently tell my clients, "If you can't control your OWN emotions, how can you expect your dog to control HIS?"

As stated above, there are a couple of sections where Benjamin decries the "modern" approach of not saying "No!", which she views as coddling the dog due to some kind of political correctness. I agree that "positive" methods are misguided and not as scientific as most +R trainers constantly claim they are. On the other hand, I've been dissuading my clients from using the word "No!" for nearly fifteen years, long before it was politically correct to do so, simply because dogs can't learn a negative, and because it sets up an adversarial relationship between you and your best friend. And I TOTALLY disagree with Benjamin's method of using leash corrections, which she says should always be followed by a sharp "No!" The truth is, leash corrections work best if they're immediately followed by praise, or a command, given in a positive tone of voice. The way Benjamin applies them results in a double punishment, and one that actually punishes GOOD behavior!

Here's what I mean: if a dog isn't focused on you, or he ignores a command, and you give him a leash correction (which should always be done with the absolute minimum of force necessary to get his attention, by the way), he'll usually stop what he was doing and focus on you, if only for a second. So he's just done a good thing, right? Okay, so then why in the world would you shout "No!" at him? It makes no sense.

And finally, here's where Benjamin's mean streak lets her down; here's where her love of punishment and being alpha gets in the way of true control: "When you want your dog to come to you from a distance, you want to project that you are friendly." Yes, that's absolutely true. That's excellent advice. But in Benjamin's world what that means is that you want your dog to suddenly forget that you're in the habit of saying "No!", punishing him for good behavior, and screaming in his "rotten face" when you can't control your own emotions.

Ms. Benjamin, THIS is why you don't use "No!", this is why you don't punish a dog, this is why "being alpha" is a bad idea. Not because it's politically incorrect, but because it's just bad dog training.

4 stars for some training techniques, 0 stars for meanness = 2 stars.



5 out of 5 stars Fun book   September 29, 2004
 5 out of 7 found this review helpful

If you can only buy one book on dog training, buy this one. It's easy to read and fun to read. After you read this book perhaps you'll also want to read her other book "Monther Knows Best," which is also fun and informative.


3 out of 5 stars No biscuit   March 23, 2002
 12 out of 15 found this review helpful

Although the book is well-written and entertaining to read I really didn't find that it taught me anything new. It *was* helpful in reminding me some of the fundamentals about dog training, and really kicked me in the [head] to *constantly* positively reinforce, no matter how unimpressive a command the dog is following, but overall, I don't think any major revelations were achieved. Some interesting thoughts, and probably worth the money if you're a brand new dog owner with no prior experience with them, but I doubt someone with past dog experience would get as much out of it.


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