By Colonel Konrad Most

Product # 955

Contents

Part 1

The Theory of Training

1. Basic Principles: The way to Mutual Understanding between Man and Dog

2. The Use of Compulsion and Inducements

Part 2

Practical Training

3. Action and Abstention - Acceleration of Pace - Disciplinary Exercises: Heel on Lead; Behaviour off the Lead; Sitting

4. Down and Recall Exercies: Gerneral; Teaching the Down; Dropping on Command

5. Special Instructions on the Recall

6. Standing Still - Jump

7. Refusal of Food and Cure of the Habits of Eating or Rolling in Refuse - Retrieving

8. Defence Work with the Guard Dog: Gerneral: Self-defence of dog when alone; Man-work without protective clothing; Man-work in protective clothing; so called stick-sureness

9. Reconnaissance: General; Human Reconnaissance; Object Reconnaissance. Tracking: Sevices available; General; Training the track-happy dog; Free tracking by the track-happy dog; Training the track-sure dog.

10. Familiarization with Disturbances - Work in Water - “Speaking”

11. Training and Management of Service Dogs

About this book

Today’s dog trainer can trace the roots of modern training to Training Dogs by Colonel Konard 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 realize that early in the 20th century Konard Most was using and applying behavioral training principles with dogs long before B.F. Skinner! Most also created systematic and scientific method 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 as harsh by modern dog trainers, the theory behind it was revolutionary for it’s time and it 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 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

“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 Purley Postive Training and co-author of Schutzhund Obedience Training in Drive.

Discover the roots of behavioral training:

• Seeing the world from a dog’s point of view.
  
• Utilizing instinctual behavior in training such as the prey drive.
  
• Use of compulsion and inducements.
  
• Use of primary and secondary reinforcers.

Learn how Most taught:

• Obedience exerises includinng the recall, jumping and retrieving.
  
• Guard and Schutzhund training.
  
• Reconnaissance and tracking; scent theory.
  
• Water work; hunting dog training.
  
• Dogs for the blind.