Bark Busters

[10/26/08] Another Midweek article.

Scott Argus, owner of Bark Busters Hawaii, says he can teach a dog to instinctively focus on the owner and follow cues as to what it should do and should not do.

Argus visits the home of the family for a private training session lasting about two-and-a-half hours (four hours for multiple family members). He suggests a good time to do it is in the morning, or whenever the owner is able to concentrate on learning to “speak dog,” as there is a lot of information to absorb. Most of the time Argus’dog Rufy accompanies him to the home to help teach people how to communicate with their dogs.

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I mentioned Bark Busters in a previous post on my original blog.

I notice on their website, there's a book written by Sylvia & Danny Wilson evidently explaining the Bark Busters method. The book is called Training Dogs The Aussie Way. It's available at Amazon. I'll add this to my list.

[10/26/08] I'm looking at the Amazon reviews on the book. It got three five star ratings and one one star rating. The one star review is by Tom De Luca who is a professional who advocates of positive reinforcement methods. Different strokes says the three star review.