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06/10/2025

With any training package, you will receive my video obedience training course valued at $149 for free! You get a free copy of my book (your complete guide to Dog Training) also, with your purchase of any training program I offer.

06/02/2025

This is one of the methods I use for a reliable recall of instagram

05/29/2025

Free obedience video course with your training

05/29/2025

Great book, easy to execute ,easy to read

05/23/2025

All my dogs since I was 10 years old, all played frisbee!!

05/19/2025

I get results!!

05/15/2025

Dan Ross-Dog Boss

05/12/2025

I was training dogs at 12 years old with those fundamentals.

05/08/2025

Man on a mission. Dog boss.

05/07/2025

Be a pack leader

05/05/2025

A professional Review of my Book. Reedsy.com

Loved it! 😍
Not as complete a training manual as the title would indicate. It combines with the rest of his training program.

Synopsis
In “Your Complete Guide to Dog Training”, Dan Ross, a Certified Professional Dog Trainer with decades of hands-on experience and an impressive record of success, guides readers through the art and science of effective dog training. From a young age, Dan showed a natural gift with dogs—a "dog whisperer" instinct—that he later cultivated through professional certifications, ongoing education, and countless hours working with thousands of dogs and their owners.
This book is for anyone ready to take training seriously, whether you're addressing behavioral issues or simply building a stronger bond with your dog. With a straightforward, step-by-step training plan, Dan introduces techniques that transform even the most challenging dog behaviors into opportunities for growth and connection.
Dan's techniques go beyond mere commands; they uncover the psychology behind dog behavior. Readers will learn to prevent common issues like aggression and anxiety, avoid disruptions to daily life, and build a well-rounded, balanced dog.
From simple commands like "sit" and "stay" to advanced skills such as off-leash heeling and protection tasks, this book prepares you to create a harmonious, lifelong partnership with your dog.
(Your Complete Guide To Dog Training) is a comprehensive guide for both first-time dog owners and experienced enthusiasts.

“Your Complete Guide to Dog Training” by Dan Ross

This How-To book is not a standalone. It is part of a training platform that is larger in scope, including personal lessons, a YouTube channel, a video library (at a cost) and Instagram and pages.

The first few chapters cover the broader picture: the philosophical part.

A valuable bit of advice from the start is on how to choose a dog trainer. It gives a quick brush through different schools of training. Then the discussion turns to Ross’s philosophy, a training style with rules, boundaries, and a focus on motivation of the pet.

Ross makes a point of the 35 years of experience dog training. I spent 50 years training people, and I have to say, our approach doesn’t differ too much. It was entertaining to hear him tell us not to nag our dogs, good advice to human mothers everywhere. His opinion of how long an idea stays in a dog’s mind (one or two seconds) is bang on.

Some people might find his instructions have an overdependence on a prong collar, but that is possibly, in his opinion, what most inexperienced dog owners need.

A new idea for me was having the dog on leash all day at first, so it feels under the owner’s authority.

The rest of the book consists of chapters on basic training objectives like Sit, Stay, Leave it. These sets of instructions are thorough and easy to understand.

Navigation through the book is easy, with clear references to specific chapters when required. Style of writing is for mostly straightforward, although a couple of places I wasn’t sure what he was referring to. I’m sure the paragraph on close heeling has the left and right hand turn reversed. At that point, a diagram would have helped.

One point I picked up: this is a trainer-oriented method. It goes on the assumption that Ross is training us to achieve certain behaviours from our dog. It does not go into dog psychology or why a dog does what it does. There is a lot of “do this and the dog will do that. Period.”

This is not a complete guide to training your dog. It is a simple, straightforward introduction to the subject. It is useful in itself, but it would be more value as part of the author’s comprehensive training program.

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Gordon A. Long
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Brought up in a logging camp with no electricity, Gordon Long learned his storytelling in the traditional way: at his father’s knee. He now spends his time editing, publishing, travelling, blogging and writing Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Social Commentary, although sometimes the boundaries blur.

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