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Control Unleashed - Creating a Focused and Confident Dog | 
 enlarge | Author: Mla, Cdbc, Cpdt Leslie Mcdevitt
Publisher: Clean Run Productions/CRP
Category: Book
Buy New: $26.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 19325
Media: Paperback
Pages: 225
ASIN: B000UCF53A
Publication Date: 2007
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Product Description
Learn how to turn stress to confidence and distraction to focus using methods that are 110% positive. Leslie McDevitt's versatile Control Unleashed program is designed to help "dogs with issues" learn how to relax, focus, and work off-leash reliably in either stimulating or stressful situations. Whether you're training a challenging dog on your own, an instructor trying to figure out how to help dogs in your classes, or an instructor who wants to design a special program just for stressed out dogs, this book is for you.Who needs Control Unleashed? Dogs that are uncomfortable or unable to work off lead around other dogs Dog that are easily distracted and have difficulty concentrating Dogs that are reactive or easily aroused Dogs that are anxious or stressed and shut down Dog that are unable to control their impulses when excited This training program can change your dog's life!
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 Probably saved my dog's (and my own) life June 20, 2008
Whoever said that CU is geared to help calm, normal dogs and not reactive dogs is really really missing the point. CU is all about molding calm dogs from previously reactive dogs. I have a reactive agility dog, and, amazingly, so do many many other people. Once one understands what reactivity is (the book explains rather well), one will start to realize that A LOT of performance dogs are reactive and/or very stressed. Zoomies anyone? It's not just excitement! Stress sniffing anyone? Tuning one's handler out and "shutting down"? "Ring nerves"? "But s/he does so well at home"? Most agility competitors have probably experienced one of these things (I know I sure have!). I find it rather callous to say that these dogs do not belong in agility, as was noted by a previous poster. WE have created these artificial stresses on these dogs, and it is up to us to help them learn how to cope with these stress triggers. WE need to help our dogs learn to cope. And that is EXACTLY what Leslie helps us do.
All of her methods are geared towards helping us help our dogs be calm. Reactive dogs are over the top! We need to teach them how to get back under the threshold and stay there and work with us. It is an amazing, beautiful thing, and I've seen the beauty firsthand (have been to CU seminars and am on the Yahoo! group).
Bottom line: If you have a reactive, stressing, sniffy, fearful, etc. agility dog, and you're just itching to help your dog feel better, CU is for you.
 Geared towards agility and conformation participants March 22, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
While this book claims to be for the average dog owner who is interested in having a better relationship with his/her dog and use positive techniques for training and behavior mod, I really felt that it was geared strongly towards participants in obedience and agility competitions.
If you are interested in either of these things, then this book is GREAT for taking your relationship with your dog in a new direction. And, it's all about positive reinforcement, which is awesome...b/c it's so nice to reward them for the good stuff.
Build a Better Relationship with your dog and win February 21, 2008
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Have a dog that is reactive? Have a dog that doesn't pay attention when you need? Leslie helps you build a better relationship with your dog that includes teaching your dog how to focus and be confident.
The book is laid out as if you were taking a class with Leslie over a seven night course. Leslie breaks things down so that it all works in real life and real dogs.
A must have for owners of reactive dogs! Yes, many people are going to look at this as a way to solve their agility problems, hopefully what they learn is a better relationship with their dog.
We really enjoyed Leslie's visit in November 2007 at CSDogBookReview, check out our archives of her visit. I was also fortunate to see Leslie in action locally for a CU seminar.
 need an editor! now December 6, 2007
8 out of 36 found this review helpful
I have worked dogs for twenty years, I have over 100 ribbons from agility, ADCH, TM etc ,read a lot of dog books, writer is doing a lot of nice "new" work, but the book needed a hard edit/different vision for it to be a work book.
The foundation of good agility is strong obediance skills! And a happy working dog! This is overlooked again and again. And a calm dog that trusts you ! I grew tired of classes of agility wannabees with untrained, nasty, or shy , or poorly trained dogs being asked to do college level work. ...so buy this before you start agility, practice, and make your instructor happy with a calm dog.
Yes, we (trainers) have over stressed pet agility dogs and owners! Helloo, wake up, calm dogs are all we need for most pet owners to be happy at agility. Not Nancy Gyese's Riot!
This book helps with getting a calm normal dog, it is not really for reactive, "variation from normal dogs". (That means really mean , nasty dogs... which all trainers see, but few can deal with.... and do not belong at agility...)
Nice book, hang on , will be better written in a year at the most....
I keep reading my copy trying to find some meat behond an idea or two .. tired of fluffy stories!
A Must For Your Dog Book Library October 26, 2007
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Although Leslie's CU class was born of the need of agility instructors to have dogs in their classes that could cope with the excitement level of that sport and stay within their threshold so they could learn, this book os an absolute must for anyone involved with dogs. It is a reactive dog manual, a puppy primer, a shelter dog guide. It is a book that should be basic library material for all dog clubs, and anyone who is involved with dogs, whether it be dog sports participants, pet people or any other dog people. Leslie gives you basic exercises which would help settle in any dog. She has taken time from her life to write this book, present seminars, help people and moderate and answer questions on the Yahoo! group of her creation. Thank you Leslie from me and my dogs, Riley and Tater. I will see you in Elburn in May of 2008!!!
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