Ian Dunbar: Dog-friendly dog training
27. Nov, 2009 
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www.ted.com Speaking at the 2007 EG conference, trainer Ian Dunbar questions us to see the world through the eyes of our beloved dogs. By knowing our pets’ perspective, we can build their like and trust. It’s a message that resonates well beyond the animal world.
The dog could have been euthanized because of the law, and even Cesar cannot bend the law unfortunately. Secondly, personally I reckon “red zone dogs” should be handled with far more care than other normal dogs. Choking a normal dog is already really unnecessary to teach a dog anything. Now choking and shocking red zone dogs that terribly need help, it downright unethical and inhumane.
You are a moron. You really reckon Cesar’s show is fake? You reckon his techniques are fake?
want to meet Ian Dunbar, he’s incredible
Intelligent conversation instead of ten-second “reality TV” no-attention span, simplicity. Excellent luck with that, Cesar-heads.
Okay a few things here 1DAYASADOG. Cesar does NOT train with Punishment and dread. Daddy was owned by cesar when he was 4 months ancient. Cesar NEVER says do these techniques on all dogs. He does it to unstable dogs. FYI, I have followed his techniques my whole life and my dogs are 100% FINE. By the way, these dogs I have are american bulldogs(scott breed) and american pit bulls. Please look at all angles before you make assumptions. Cesar saves dogs that trainers cant do.
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and the shock collar was to save a dog’s life, a dog that was obsessed with chewing tractor tires, and previously had its eye pop out of her head as she was crushed by it once, yet still continues chasing it. The collar was set to a mild setting, not enough to weep out in pain or convulse but to surprise it when it gets near the tires in a way not associated to thw owner’s correcting the dog, but to the tires.
This guy mentions he couldn’t fix an aggressive dog and he was later euthanized. Ceaser only gets terrible rep because he has methods that work on dogs other trainers would give up on and consider unfixable dogs that need to be place down becuase their methods failed. People keep mentioning that he Cesar “chokes dogs, and uses shock collars” The “choking” was for a red zone dog that could really hurt someone, like the dog mentioned in this video that had to be euthanize,
No, and they haven’t been wolves for over 15.000 years! Read a book people….
Ian Dunbar started the APDT in 1993.
Horsepucky. crosseyed, kneejerk horsepucky.
Bullcrap. Matcho, Dominance-focused bullcrap.
The term “alpha” when it comes to wolves is highly misleading and misunderstood. It’s been gone from discriptions about wolves in the wild for a decade, because wolves don’t organize their packs like that.
What you’re talking about is what is seen by wolves in captivity under highly stressfull situations. This has nothing to do with dogs.
makes alot of sence,I should tell it to my dogs trainer,lol
One myth Dunbar likes to debunk is the thought that “dominance” means yelling, screaming and physically punishing the dog.
In fact, getting blue in the face is often seen by the dog as weakness, not strength. Right alpha dogs don’t carry on like that. It’s Dunbar’s style of cool, consistent, but decisive leadership that best mimics an alpha dog.
If you have a client that doesn’t have the time or money to train his dog without using harsh punishment…you need to get a better class of clients. People who can’t commit the time & money to have a dog be a respectable member of society need to be educated, not trained to bully animals.
this nature, but i can not continue to watch this video based on that huge mis-conception, perhaps he corrects it later in, but he did make it appear that the female was the weaker of the species, while it is quite the opposite, for evolutionary and culturual reasons, only remember that, dogs realy ARE wolves
if the girl wolf doesnt want to give the male wolf the bone, all he can do is irritate her, and hell in wolfs the alpha female would once again just come and WHIP HIS ASS, the fact is that the thought of that lemon juice or the newspaper over the head, while not directly, over time origionated from the NATURE of the wolf clan, i do not belive it is neccicary to use violence to mimic
the thing that pisses me off so much is that he appears to reckon it odd that an inferior female would be able to beat a superior male of the species, he is simply missing the point of the way dogs brains work, reckon of a human, how many men do you reckon would grab food out of a woman’s hand if you didnt know where the next food was coming from, not many, but still quite a few, well in wolf, and general wild culture, they DO NOT OVERCOME INSTINCT……,
i cant even end this one, i do agree that it is possible, and actualy quite simple to train a male or female dog without violence, but he starts this whole small bit with a huge mis conception, a full grown dog is just like an adolescent wolf, of cource a gama female can keep a bone away from an alpha male, but in wolf culture an alpha female would beat the shit out of an alpha male for even trying to take the bone, i’ll continue in a answer
mans a genius,been to his seminars,loved them.
Well for starters, I’ve been training a lot longer than you – started with your methods and graduated to more positive approach because it was more effective. There will always be clients who don’t listen, or who don’t have money. But, the assumption that positive training and management take longer than corrective training is fake. But, when you are 22 and all puffed up because you train pit bulls and dobermans, you can’t see that. All you see is the stupid dominance hype.
i reckon that this opinion is a lil up its own ass. of course u dont have to use force to train a dog whther he is aggressive or not. but when a client has an aggressive dog and wants him to obey and stop being aggressive now and doesnt necessarily have the money or time to train the dog without leash correction, what are you gonna do, tell him to give his dog away? place it down? how about if the dog is always running away in the streets, u wait til he gets hit by a car or react?…………….
Really, the myth is that you must use coercion or force just because you are training an aggressive dog. And, it’s also a myth that you cannot train owners to train their dogs using positive training. The real myth is that there are never any negative consequences for the dog during training. Those consequences do not have to cause pain or dread to be effective.
Exactly. Balance is vital.