The Best and Worst Dog Trainers - Page 2

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Why don't you just ignore BM, and let WR do her job, and instead, perhaps you can suggest who is your idea of The Best Trainer, and why? Set a good example for all the folks who want to learn from everyone's recommendations. It could become a good list for future reference.

 

 

 

 

very subjective , one would say all worldchampions are great trainers, too simple, dont know them all didnot see al of them work, but will give you some , in netherlands Marco hollander in IPO,, loved to see him get good results with not so simple dogs, dick staal for policedogs, but also IPO people can learn from him, Lucy kalocova in czech , martin Pesja and martin plechacek to name a few

Ever hear of Felix Ho? He is listed number 5 on the Ranker site, List of Famous Animal Trainers. Not just dogs! 

http://www.ranker.com/list/list-of-famous-animal-trainings/reference

 

 

Ever watch that movie, "Max"? I love that line about the star, Belgian Malinois, "...you've got the Air Jordan of dogs...! " How about his trainer for a best? I did a search on movie trainers and found this:

The dogs’ trainer, Mark Forbes, reveals what went into preparing these dogs for their role, and what pet owners can learn from the film.

Tell us about the background of the five dogs who played Max. Are they all professional “actors”?

No, none had any film experience. A few of them were trained in other activities, which is important because Belgian Malinois need a job to do. Carlos was the lead dog—we called him “the face.” He came from a breeder in the south, and had been competing in agility. Pax came to us from Salt Lake City. He was actually a fully trained narcotics sniffing dog. Dude was the pet of one of the other trainers, and Jagger and Pilot came from breeders in New Mexico and Ohio, respectively.

http://www.akc.org/news/movie-dog-training-tips/

 

Easy answer .. the best dog trainer is the one who knows that even with 50 years of training and experience they can never know even a fraction of what there is to know and understand about dogs ... the worst dog trainer is the one that thinks they already know it all. As we say in science .. the expert is the person who studies hard and learns more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.

David Hartwig

The man who trained the smartest dog ever, Skid Boot.

http://www.skidboot.com/

In that case the man who taught Einstein calculus was the smartest teacher ever?? Besides it depends on the measuring device for the dog .. Chaser is the smartest dog ever as defined by language skills in English. There may be a dog in China smarter than Chaser at the Chinese language that we don't know about. Machines are evolving intelligence faster than humans and will some day hopefully be training humans to be better citizens of planet Earth .. or perhaps they will put electric collars on us and make remarks about how our brains are not fully developed and force/domination is all that humans understand.

Who is Chaser? Have a link? I don't know anything about that dog!

I think we have to give credit to all of the smartest dogs who had trainers who were motivated and clever enough to bring out their capabilities.

Where would Helen Keller be without Anne Sullivan? Keeping with your Einstein analogy. 😎

Seems to me, I wouldn't be half the dog lover and interested in training had I not read the book, "Lassie Come Home" . Still the lessons taught in that book are valid goals to be learned today.

 

Rudd Weatherwax and his brother Frank delighted audiences with some of the screen's most famous dogs: Asta, from The Thin Man; Daisy, from Blondie; and Old Yeller, from the film of that same name. Their brother Jack, who had his own business, trained the only cairn terrier to visit Oz: Toto!

 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5784753