How Anyone Can Be a Great Dog Trainer Almost Immediately

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[minty737]

5 mins to tell me somethign you could have gotten across in 2. This is why I don't subscribe to your channel anymore - you ned to be a little more concise. Say things once, say them well, and you will not lose your audiences interest. I was bored almost from your first sentence. I relaly like your ideas, but I just cant watch the loooong talks.

[zakgeorge21]

@minty737 lol You want me to give advice to you that will tell you how to become a great dog trainer, but only if it's around two minutes? I appreciate your comment and have no problem with where you're coming from. But quite honestly, I don't work for you and you are not paying me a salary...so I'd advise you to stop watching my videos if they're not your cup of tea.

[Tekhazai]

I'm getting a german shepherd puppy soon!! (will try to post a video response) any tips for a first dog owner? Ps I know it will be a big responsibility and I need to sacrifice time, but hey I have all the time in the world :)

[zakgeorge21]

@Tekhazai I've made a video about this. See my playlist.

[donnyz89]

You have made the criticism that some trainers that uses clicker don't have that genuine connection with their dog, and I don't think its fair. The clicker does not replace verbal feedback, it does not replace the person/dog interaction, it is not a praise. Plenty of clicker trainers have great and deep relationships with their dogs. I think a trainer can rely a lot on clicker and not take away the relationship component.

[zakgeorge21]

@donnyz89 Yeah, I agree with that. They very likely have a great relationship with their dog, but from what I've seen, that aspect of training is glossed over when teaching others this method in favor of "science training" where the human element is encouraged to be minimal. The more we train with positive, and heart-felt emotion, the more effective and meaningful the end result becomes. Anyone who has ever had a highly trained dog knows that this where truly superior training happens.

[mahakhalil1]

I don't disagree with you (I almost never do), but there is only one problem with telling people to communicate with their dogs the way they communicate with children: a LOT of people don't know how to raise kids properly or communicate with them properly, and a lot of them when they adopt this mindset will forget that the dog doesn't understand what they are saying to them unless they have actually taught what the words mean...

[BENandJUSTICE]

@zakgeorge21 Let me conclude with this: ZG says in the video here that his detractors claim his approach lacks science. That is not true. On the contrary, it is science that lacks his approach. Poor CM -- he lacks both!

[BENandJUSTICE]

@zakgeorge21 What one admires about ZGs approach is his refusal to underestimate canine intelligence, that is, a dog's largely intuitive ability to empathize, non-judgmentally, with his human companion.Thus does ZG refuse to pigeonhole canine behavior into prefabricated, linguistic categories as a convenient, but unrealistic way to explain intellectually what is better understood through intuitive experience. It's ironic, insofar as intuition begets theory, not the other way round.

[BENandJUSTICE]

@zakgeorge21 Theorists thrive on abstractions which, though certainly valuable for analysis and study, dismiss the realities of the organic connection that links one sentient, reactive being (a dog) to another (a human) .For theorists, the very suggestion that affection between human and dog is worthy of cultivation, as a legitimate tool of communication, is summarily dismissed as anthropomorphism, as if dogs had no feelings or thoughts. [ to be continued]

[BENandJUSTICE]

@zakgeorge21 How right you are. What what you say is no less true in other disciplines, including mine: classical music. Theory and science, while enormously useful to practitioners as a means to inform judgment and strategy, , is not identical to actual practice - in this case, dog training - but is instead a language *about* practice.[to be continued]