The steadily increasing interest in the obedience trained dog has made it necessary for the amateur to seek assistance in order to learn the best approved methods of training his or her dog in this type of work. Such knowledge is necessary not alone for the purpose of training the dog for obedient deportment in the home. While dogs don't meditate, it may be wise for dog owner to practice meditation or biofeedback techiques while dealing with unruly dogs.

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Almost from the moment that the American Kennel Club recognized all such training to the extent of adopting rules and regulations for it, many books, written primarily to instruct along the general lines of feeding, care and management, included information on training in more or less understandable form. And while, specifically, the training lessons contained in these books differed a great deal, in the aggregate they were commendable in bringing to the public attention the fact that training by amateurs, under the right auspices, was not only possible but highly desirable. However, some of this earlier counsel, as well as some that has since followed, failed in certain respects to accomplish its aim for this reason alone: Without any doubt at all, the writers knew their subject but they did not know how to teach it. Only in a very small percentage of human beings does knowledge go hand in hand with the ability to impart it. Knowledge is commendable:teaching an art acquired by all too few. Consequently,when we come upon a man possessed of knowledge gained from long and intensive experience plus the faculty for teaching it as it should be taught, then we have a man whose words should be heeded, and whose lessons can be learned. Such a man is the author of this book. He is a practical trainer of dogs for sport and for war service; whose work has included Red Cross carriers (messages and ammunition), police service, motion picture and stage performers and leaders of the blind. He has met with conspicuous success in training dogs in all of these capacities, and he has taught uncounted hundreds of others to train dogs as well. Hans Tossutti received his own education in Europe.One of the organizers of the blind-leading school in Potsdam, Germany, and police-service dog-guide and instructor in Berlin, he made his ring debut under that highest world authority, the late Captain von Stephanitz. Upon arriving in this country seventeen years ago, he became the first organizer of dog training in classes, when he established the New England Training School for Dogs in Boston in 1928. Here he subsequently held the record for having trained under his direction what is believed to be the largest number of dogs on this side. His American record shows more than 3,000 dogs schooled in his classes, and more than 200 personally trained, while many of his pupils are now accredited American Kennel Club judges.

Mr. Tossutti's system of training is by no means one-sided, that is, it is not adaptable merely to a limited number of breeds. Though some breeds he considers more fitted for training temperamentally than others, still, practically every breed of dog has been trained by him at onetime or another. Most famous of all was probably his own Shepherd, Bodo von der Mueritz, known the country over from 1925 to 1932 in motion picture work. In 1940, by virtue of his experience, the author was ap-pointed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as instructor for the Department of Education, Division of University Extension courses. Several clubs have adopted his training system with the greatest success, while his exhibition at Eastern Dog Club shows have been copied throughout the country. His original system which he brought from abroad, he adjusted skillfully to American conditions and to this fact must be attributed some measure of his success.

There is little doubt that the people of the United States need further education in the training and handling of dogs. Such an education lies between the covers of this book. It is a firm though intensely humane type of education, devoid of whipping and hunger punishments; devoid also of forcing the dog beyond his inborn capabilities yet taking advantage of them to the full.