Training Dogs - Softcover

Most, Konrad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0091614015 ISBN 13: 9780091614010

Publisher: Hutchinson Educational, 1988

Synopsis

Today s dog trainer can trace the roots of modern training to Training Dogs by Colonel Konrad Most. Written in Germany in 1910, Training Dogs influenced how both dogs and trainers were taught in Europe and the United States for the next 50 years! It contains valuable and historically significant information.

21st century trainers and behaviorists will find it amazing to realized that early in the 20th century Konrad Most was using and applying behavioral training principles with dogs long before B.F. Skinner! Most also created systematic and scientific methods to teach trainers how to train the dog and his  theory of Training is a classic in the field. While Most s methods may be viewed harsh by modern dog trainers, the theory behind it was revolutionary for it s time and still applied today.

 We are in luck if, in training a dog, we can use his instincts as a basis for what we require. For the more instinctive an action is, the more reliable it will be. -Konrad Most

Here is what today s dog trainers say about Training Dogs:

 Most demonstrated an understanding of operant conditioning concepts such as primary and secondary reinforcement, shaping, fading and chaining 28 years before the publication of B.F. Skinner s The Behavior of Organisms. He differentiated between primary and secondary reinforcers. He used his voice and soft tones as secondary inducements, much the way some trainers use clickers today. Mary R. Burch and Jon S. Bailey, How Dogs Learn, 1999, Howell Book House, A Division of Hungry Minds, Inc.

 Although some of Most s methods seem archaic and harsh in this enlightened age of positive training, some of the theory he set forth was years ahead of its time. Knowing where training came from helps us appreciate where we are today. Sheila Booth, author of Purely Positive and co-author of Schutzhund Obedience Training In Drive.

About this title

From the Author

Konrad Most was a police dog, war dog and seeing-eye dog trainer in Germany for the first half of the 20th Century. He trained dogs in World Wars I and II and created curricula for trainers. He was a researcher in the field of canine psychology and trained dogs for virtually every use during his long career.

About the Author

Konrad Most was a police dog, war dog and seeing-eye dog trainer in Germany for the first half of the 20th Century. He began his career in 1906 and continued until his death at 76 in 1954. He trained dogs in World Wars I & II and continued on to train dogs in peace time. He trained dogs for virtually every purpose and was an early researcher in the field of canine psychology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hutchinson Educational
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0091614015
• ISBN 13: 9780091614010
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204