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6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Great starting point Mar 18, 2010
By Matthew J. Robuck
This dvd is of lower production quality, but packed with years and years of great experience and information. If you have a situation where your dog does not mind, or you have a multi-dog house hold where problems occur, this is a great starting place for how to live with your dogs. Also if you have a new dog coming into the house and you want to keep your family, kids and the new dog safe, this dvd is a great place to start.
Most trainers breeze through what it means to establish pack structure, its a process that takes time and patience. Ed explains in detail. I have been working with dominant and aggressive dogs for the past 2 years and Ed Frawley is the only trainer who gets it 100%.
Proper pack structure training is more important to a dog than exercise or behavior training. It's the one thing, that if established properly, can eliminate problems. This dvd shows you how to do just that. It could be better, more organized, better production quality, but the information is all there. Better than and Caesar book or Discovery dog show.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Lots of good info Mar 03, 2010
By L. K. Jeffrey
"popsecret1979"
Ever since I got my german shepherd puppy everything I have heard is "Its all about leadership!". Well, before I found Leerburg nobody ever showed me how to do it. No matter what I tried I just couldn't muster up he mystical pack leader quality of Cesar Millan. :)
If you are having any sort of rank issues with your dog this DVD is a great place to start.
If you are about to get a new dog, especially an adult dog, you should definitely check it out.
Each Leerburg dvd has at least one "ah ha!" moment. If nothing else the section in this DVD that breaks down the interaction between two dogs is worth the purchase.
The only reason why I am not giving it 5 stars is that there is some product placement in the DVD. But to credit Leerburg, the product placements are tied in where the product actually would be advantageous to understanding a broader concept that has been presented, or when a proper tool would be very helpful.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Not reasonable Jan 10, 2012
By KCP
As a military working dog handler and a dog trainer myself, I bought this DVD to see the differences in trainers who subscribe more to the dog psychology (pack structure) mentality, moreso than the dog training mentality.
I found his DVD to be poorly presented (most of it is done in a chair on his front porch), I found him to continuously repeat himself (usually telling you to purchase items he sells and why), he repeated several times to purchase his other DVD's and he continuously harps on dogs "earning" privileges, which i believe speaks to a human way of thinking and not an animal way of thinking. In what "pack of dogs" does a dog sit in timeout til he "earns" things? Never. A dog simply exercises his desires and the pack leader corrects as necessary, which shows the dog his limits. He advocates no play and continuous crating of your dog until the dog "earns" his way out of the crate, which is not really a dog function to sit in a cage waiting to earn something that he knows nothing about. In what household would I ever go to one of my clients and say "don't play with your puppy"? It's not reasonable and while that tactic might accomplish you as the pack leader in the end, there are several better ways to accomplish this than "socially alienating" your puppy. He actually preaches to remove all social stimuli from your dog. I don't know another handler who would ever advocate removing people and other dogs from their lives...if anything, desensitization by over-exposure to these things works better than no social interaction at all.
He tells you to act "aloof" with your dog. I just found his tactics to be unrewarding enough for the human that I doubt anyone would reasonably practice these things with people like Cesar Millan around who clearly can accomplish the same thing with much more ease. Absolutely, positively not worth the high price of his DVD's. I couldn't even get through the entire thing.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
great video Mar 03, 2011
By Julie
Leerburg's videos are long, but that is because they are full of information and take the time to show you examples of how things are done correctly, but also examples of incorrect methods. This video is probably best for an individual bringing home a dog that is not a young puppy. This is for someone bringing a previously owned, or adult dog into the home. It tells you how to go through and to correctly interact with the dog to show your rank as "Alpha" . If you want to learn how to become the pack leader with a new puppy, I would not recommend this video. I would reccommed Leerburg's "Your Puppy 8 weeks to 8 Months" for a new pup.
2 of 15 found the following review helpful:
Mean-spirited. An amateur-hour-grade Infomercial. Dec 20, 2009
By Mary and Charles
It's a self-promoting infomercial. Very long and boring, and he's got plenty of stuff to sell.
Might be OK if you were training an aggressive or "problem" dog. For most people I believe this video will do more harm than good.
We got maybe 1/2 way through it. Do yourself a favor and pass it by.
RECOMMENDATION: Try the book from Animal Planet, "Training Your Dog" by Dominique De Vito.
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