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BEYOND BASIC DOG TRAINING

OTCH Meadowpond Fem De Fortune, WC. Charo is a three-time Gaines Superdog winner. She is a member of the Golden Retriever Obedience Hall of Fame and retired with six perfect scores of 200. Charo is owned, trained, and loved by Diane Bauman.
BEYOND BASIC DOG TRAINING
Third Edition
DIANE L. BAUMAN
Copyright 1991, 2003 by Diane L. Bauman. All rights reserved.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Bauman, Diane L.
Beyond basic dog training / Diane L. Bauman.-3rd ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-7645-4164-1 (alk. paper)
1. Dogs-Training. I. Title.
SF431.B37 2003
636.7 0887-dc21
2003009303
Manufactured in the United States of America
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
FOR MY FATHER
whose last words to me before he died were, Write the book-it s important.

Diane Bauman and Keeshond AM/CAN OTCH Vandy s Faun, TD; Pekingese OTCH Giget to the Rescue, UDX, NA; and Papillon MACH Mysin Alacazzam, UD, TD.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Training the Thinking Dog
2. Wrong Is Wonderful
3. Good News and Bad News
4. Honesty-The Best Policy
5. Slow Down and Shut Up!
6. A Pity Party for Rover, or Little People in Fur Coats
7. Demand Sweetly
8. Where to Go to Train
9. Thereby Hangs a Tale
10. Why Not No!
11. Understanding Corrections vs. Help
12. Praise
13. Training Equipment
14. Choosing and Raising the Future OTCH
15. Anticipation
16. Creatures Big and Small
17. Special Small Dog and Big Dog Techniques
18. Proofing
19. Homework Counts-When It s Done Right!
20. The Fifth-Week Plateau
21. Using Food in Obedience Training
22. Cross-Training Your Dog
23. The On and Off Switch of Dog Attention
24. Teaching the Dog to Heel
25. The Figure 8
26. Teaching the Dog to Heel Off Leash
27. Understanding Difficult Heeling Patterns
28. Teaching the Dog to Sit
29. Sit-Stay
30. Down and Down-Stay
31. Out of Sight, Out of Mind?
32. Stay Problems
33. Come Fore
34. Teaching Fronts
35. Teaching the Drop on Recall
36. The Finish
37. Stand for Examination
38. Teaching the Retrieve
39. Teaching Scent Discrimination
40. Directed Retrieve
41. Ready to Start Jumping?
42. Teaching the High and Bar Jumps
43. Directed Jumping
44. Teaching the Broad Jump
45. Teaching Utility Hand Signals
46. Go Out
47. Secrets of Showing
48. The Bible
49. Using Match Shows to Your Advantage
50. The Week Before the Show
51. Obedience for Agility
52. As You Train Your First Advanced Dog
53. As Told by the Dog or It s a Dog s Life?
54. What May Have Caused This Problem?
55. The Relationship
Index
About the Author
Foreword
You are about to embark on an adventure in dog obedience as only Diane Bauman can take you. Her remarkable ability to view training from the dog s perspective has enabled her to create a style so pervasive that it will enchant even the most seasoned of trainers.
Clear understanding has led Diane to the development of training methods that afford dog and handler a relationship of powerful communication.
It is a refreshing realization that our canine companions have a higher level of intelligence than is traditionally granted.
Many dogs labeled unmanageable, dangerous or just unwanted have been rescued by Diane. Once adopted and trained by her, they developed a new outlook on life and were later carefully placed in new homes to become happy companions or obedience competitors.
The author s brilliance as a trainer, together with her extraordinary talent as a teacher, makes it a privilege to be her student.
I m sure I speak for many when I thank Diane for so generously revealing her secrets and ideas that have developed over many years of experience and intuitive thought.
Clearly much time, devotion and effort have gone into making this book a pleasure to read. Beyond Basic Dog Training will be an invaluable source of reference to read and re-read with each and every chapter essential. My favorite part of this book is the conclusion, where my heart skipped a few beats. I believe that this is where Diane has captured the true meaning of dog training.
-Laurie Rubenfeld
Acknowledgments
The pages that follow hold my thoughts about training dogs. These thoughts combine ideas developed from books, seminars, other trainers, dogs themselves and original thought. I have been very fortunate to have known some very knowledgeable and generous people. For their continued support and appreciation of my endeavors, I thank some who have made this book possible: Nancy Overton, Bill and Mary Chaillot, Margaret Fitch, Dr. H. L. Yandell, Larry Schillenkamp, Jack Godsil, Bob Self, Marly Whiting, Alfred Einhorn, Sheila Eckstein, Ruth Rosbach-Chandler, Jeff Bauman, my parents, students and every dog s leash that has ever passed through my hands.
Of all those who helped shape my training methods, Ruth Rosbach-Chandler (my partner) has had the greatest influence. Her intuitive understanding of people and dogs and her undying sense of humor helped this book take shape. Thank you, Ruth, for all you have given me in so many ways.
Introduction
This book was written with the best interests of dogs in mind. I believe it is time to go beyond training dogs and start teaching them how to please us. Assuming that dogs are capable of reasoning and simple problem solving, I feel dogs need not be trained as if they were merely simple stimulus-response mice.
The teaching methods presented in this book encourage and cultivate dogs cognitive abilities. I believe dogs learn by trial and error, and I encourage dogs by removing corrections for incorrect responses. As a result, the dogs do not fear failure and are taught to exercise options in a quest for the desired behavior. The concept that wrong is wonderful when teaching dogs is new to the world of competitive dog trainers.
My novel teaching approach has produced many top obedience performers in many breeds. They exhibit confident, alert, accurate, enthusiastic style in the obedience ring. Their minds have been stimulated while their egos have been left intact. They are happy to be doing what they understand.
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Training the Thinking Dog
Dog training, like religion, embraces different beliefs based on different premises resulting in different training methods. When you consider that obedience fans go to trials on Sundays and often resort to prayer, the analogy is further strengthened! Many trainers tell students to verbally scold and others advocate no verbal harshness. Some say to yell no and others believe this is unnecessary. There are those who tell you to starve your dog, feed your dog, snap your dog, love your dog, and some who will even suggest you get a new dog. If you read enough books and attend enough seminars, you ll go crazy searching for the right way to train dogs! A training method is only successful for you if you fully understand it and feel comfortable with it.
One thing I have learned over the years of training my own dogs and instructing others is that dogs will learn in spite of what is done to them! This is both encouraging and misleading. Encouraging because it means that if you hack away long enough, your dog will eventually learn (providing he lives long enough) but misleading because many ridiculous methods of training dogs have developed and the dogs eventually respond even though the methods make no sense. If you scratch your head just before your dog does a fast sit, does this mean that scratching your head should become a method used to teach fast sits?
To complicate matters further, good dog trainers are always changing their methods! They remain open to new ideas and search for more effective techniques. Trainers who resist change and lose creativity in their trainin