Psychological Dog Training: Behavior Conditioning with Respect and Trust

Book by Meisterfeld, C. W.

C.W. Meisterfeld is a canine psychoanalyst/therapist/trainer whose dog training experiences (as a teenager) began in 1944 and he turned professional ten years later. Meisterfeld is an A.K.C. licensed handler (retired) trainer for competitive Conformation-Obedience and Retriever trials. He is a breeder of German Shorthaired Pointers, Irish Setters, and Labrador Retrievers. A professional hunter’s guide at exclusive Upland Game hunting clubs and the pioneer of canine psychoanalysis and psychological dog training (1963), Meisterfeld teaches canine behavioral psychology in California’s colleges and Universities. His philosophy of Mutual Respect and Train Without Pain has earned him the Canine Distinction Award for A.K.C. Obedience (1957) and National Retriever Championships for three consecutive years – 1962, 1963, and 1964 – with a perfect score of 500 points in 1962. Meisterfeld is the first canine psychoanalyst to be certified as an expert Witness in the judicial system of the United States (California’s Superior Court, 1982).