There is so many way to teach you dog but only a few ways to take the transmission out of the animal. I guess I was fortunate to be raised around professional dog trainers like the Hogan's of Ireland and Barrington, Illilonis, Dave Elliot, Cotton Pershall , Charles Morgan, and David Lorenz. They all knew how to get into a dog's head in many different ways to bring out the natural talents.
As everything good and exciting, it all starts in California and moves outward. Dog training was no exception. Dog training took a quantum jump when the techno guru, Rex Carr decided that wireless collar to reinforce expectations and curtail unacceptable behavior had a place in the dog's life cycle. Rex Carr made the common man able to own, train, field trial and hunt exceptional dogs previously available only to the titled gentry of America's upper Mid West and East Coast.
Today there is no reason an individual can not have a family pet that is so well mannered and trained that it can lay at your feet during winter nights, scare the juice out of an intruder and find and retrieve a crippled game bird 500 yards away. You just have to learn how to get into the animals head.
For me having great teachers helped but one teacher in particular open the door and he had nothing to do with dogs. Harry McElroy trained Hawks to hunt. He trained all hawks to the fist and taught me how to enter the domain of an animal through Falconry. Once you have knowledge of you animal their is nothing you can not do if you have the patience
