Gain Access To Team Dog: How To Establish Trust And Authority And Get Your Dog Perfectly Trained The Navy Seal Way Presented By Mike Ritland Presented In Kindle

liked this book but didn't get a whole lot out of it, I use a number of his techniques already with great success and will try some other concepts he outlines, I was hoping for new information but just didn't get it, As a lifelong dog owner I feel like some of his writing was more for the new pet owner, At the same time, I am a little disappointed with his examples all relating to MWD but that is his specialty, I expected a little more rounded group of examples,

Overall, good content and well written, Just not what I was anticipating, I'm a little higher level in my training journey, More of a theoretical/theory of how to train instead of do this step and then this and your dog will be fully trained, Definitely will be using some of the techniques, If you want to learn how to get your dog to do what you want, this book will help, If you want to learn how to get people to do what you want, this book may help with that, too,

I initially picked Team Dog for novel research my workinprogress features a German shepherd with a fairly significant role in the story, My goal was to learn more about how dogs communicate with and respond to people, This book delivered that. It also delivered something deeper insight on how people communicate and respond to dogs and to other people,

As a former Navy Seal, the author provided valuable insight on how to use your voice and body to communicate confidence, power and authority, This encourages dogs to trust you and follow your lead, It can have the same effect on people, In fact, many of Ritlands strategies and ideas apply not only to your relationship with your dog, but to all your relationships, A caseinpoint: doing for vs, doing with. You provide the needs food, shelter, safety, Yet, the author explains, “for many dogs it isnt so much about what you do for your dog, but what you do with him, ” The dogs needs “to not be alone and to be out in the world seeking and playing” also must be met, When it comes to dogs or children, or spouses, or fillintheblank, I agree with Ritland that “doing with often matters more than doing for, ”
The most honest, practical amp straightforward book on creating the best life for you amp your dog, Mike Ritland explains why most people struggle with their dog amp addresses the root causes in a clear, no BS manner, You're likely to relate to one or many topics Ritland adress, I sure did, This book will challenge your beliefs amp encourage you to re examine your current amp past relationship with your dog, If you only felt "offended" by this book, then its probably exactly what you needed to hear,
For most of my life, I thought I knew everything there was to know about raising amp owning a dog simply because I grew up with gsd's, But when my last gsd displayed behaviors I'd never seen before, reality hit me like a ton of bricks saying "you dont know shit!" Taking a step back, I realized the information I believed was "right" amp undoubtedly correct, was actually the opinions passed down to me from naive parents amp popular trends, But I didnt bother to question or research.
How many times do you have to repeat the same thing, I was fine with the book even his clicker until he discussed over controlling another life forms ability to use the toilet or food all the while caged

Lack of respect for other life forms is a huge problem.
Nothing beats respectful love and care for relationship building with all forms

Even the slugs can be trained with timed food and we dont have to heartimes how they enjoy attacking and biting humans.
A Truly Wonderful Read

I love the outlook of this book, Relationship is everything and learning to see things from the dog's perspective as well as understanding how to properly communicate to our dogs is imperative for that relationship, I recommend this book to anyone even remotely interested in dog's, I wasn't really surprised like some of the other reviewer to find that this Team Dog's author take a very authoritarian approach to dog train, He is a Navy SEAL after all, As a psychologist I didn't find it anymore helpful than a basic outline of Skinnerian operant conditioning would have been, In fact one of the images was almost identical to one of the charts I use in my general psychology lectures, The one thing that struck me was the BARF feeding method, I guess even dogs are going paleo now, I will not be doing that, So this book isn't a how to for advanced obedience but it is a good book for developing foundational skills that should allow you to work on any variety of skills, behaviours or manners and focus on building a good relationship with your dog.


However it definitely had some cons along with its pros, Let take a long at the good stuff first:

Some good comparable stories from his personal experience
Great information on bond building
Excellent info on choosing a dog
Some good stuff on wellness care
And great info on excercise and fun

Now the Cons:
Too wordy the firstchapters especially
Too focused on tools.
Trying to sell the prong and clicker,
Poor unscientific information on diet
At times the topics felt disjointed or unorganized

While I appreciated his outlook on dog selection and building a bond with a dog I wont likely ever reread this book.
The push for certain tools and the vastly incorrect information on diet was a hard turn off, . . I nearly put it down a couple times, I'd recommend select chapters to people but I wouldnt recommend the book as a whole, Mike Ritland spentyears in the Navy Seals, Although he's a super macho type of guy, he doesn't manhandle or force the dog to do anything in his dog training method, Most dogs don't want the pressure or responsibility of leading the pack, They would rather have their master do that job, This is the cornerstone of building a positive relationship with the dog man up and be the boss, But be the boss who is in control of himself and is aware of what he's doing, The boss should reward wanted behavior and not reward unwanted behavior, Ritland is a big advocate of clicker training,

Very helpful book! This focused less on the ABC bullet points of what to do and what not to do and focused more on how to lead and solve problems as they come up.
It teaches the mindset of owning and training well behaved dogs rather than just spitting out information to memorize, This helped me feel very confident about owning a dog in the future, Great book to help understand and train your dog, This book does not teach you to train a specialized military dog, it teaches how to train a pet dog, This is a great book for first time dog owners, It would be helpful to read it before obtaining your dog, Ritland offers direction on how to choose the right dog for you, which increases your chance of success and happiness throughout the dog's life, His approach is very different from other dog ownership books in that he points out the importance of being the dog's boss and keeping emotion out of the discipline equation.
Demeanor, stance and vocal balance have a lot to do with how your dog responds to you, This is a great choice for people thinking about dog ownership,.As a trainer I was completely disgusted by this book, I purchased it because I greatly enjoyed his other book Trident KWarriors, As a trainer foryears and a dog owner I found his book to contain very little useful information especially for the novice dog owner, He repeatedly makes references to things you can look up on the Internet but never provides any of his recommended sources, He places a lot of blame on owners of dogs and even puts them down quite a few times, I know as a trainer that if I'm working with a client and the first thing I do is attack them the first thing they will do is stop listening to me.
People do make mistakes with dogs and often need guidance but they do not do these things intentionally and are seeking help because they know they have a problem, Also, this book is a contradiction of positive methods mixed with aversive methods that are discussed in detail in the last chapter, Early on he claims that you should develop trust with your dog and by the end he is advising e collars and aggressively challenging your dog, I know as a trainer we are all constantly learning and growing and all I can hope is that he furthers his research and continues to learn and grow in this ever changing field.
Clear and informative style, I thought there was a lot of good content, His perspective that you

need to communicate a clear sense of command and control is interesting and unique, workmanlike solid advice conveyed in a common sense manner audiobook narrator's steadfast tone matched the straightforward nature of book, Not an enjoyable "read" more like boot camp, to be expected but techniques are sound and work, I highly recommend this book to everyone contemplating adding a dog to their family, So much great information on selecting the dog for your lifestyle and wonderful, positive training methods not to mention an interesting read as well, If you are thinking about getting a dog or have a dog and want to start training it, this book gives you enough knowledge to get started with confidence and is a really good read.
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