Sunday, May 16, 2010

Dog Training DVDs (and a few books)

Obviously there's a ton of books on dog training, but while browsing Amazon for videos, I notice they have a category for Pets & Pet Care

Cesar has 7 out of the top 10. No. 3 is the "original" Dog Whisperer Paul Owens. No. 8 is the same DVD, but in region 2 (which makes me wonder how accurate this list is). No. 2 is the Monks of New Skete.

Browsing down the list...

12 - Train Your Dog (Nicole Wilde)
13 - Clicker, Puppy (Karen Pryor)
16 - It's PAWsible (Beth Ostroski-Parks) [which gets good reviews]
28 - Woof! A Guide to Dog Training (Uncle Matty)
32 - The Loved Dog (Tamar Geller)
34 - Living With Your Dog (Jack and Wendy Volhard)
36 - Dog Obedience Training (Cindi Tringali) [mixed reviews]

Here's an interesting one
56 - Fighting Dominance in a Dog Whispering World (Jean Donaldson & Ian Dunbar)
which is one ahead of
57 - Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan: Celebrity Edition

66 - People Training for Dogs (Cesar Millan) [which has zero reviews]
70 - Dogs for Dummies (Jenny Taylor) [also comes in a bundle with the book by Gina Spadafori]
73 - Old Dog, New Tricks (Mark Harden)
76 - Dog Training: The John Fisher Way [disappointing reviews]
88 - Drool School (Amy Robinson) [no reviews]
90 - Training the Dog in the Human Pack (John Fisher, I assume when he was alive)
91- Calming Signals (Turid Rugaas) [I didn't know this was out on DVD)
95 - Home School: Dogs [no reviews]
99 - Unleash Your Dogs Potential (Linda Tellington-Jones) [of the Tellington Touch]

A few others (general rank in Movies & TV)
43966 - Teach That Dog! - Super Good Manners (Pat B. Mitchell) [four five-star reviews]
66084 - It's Me or the Dog (Victoria Stilwell)
81110 - In The Dog House (Brad Pattison)
154782 - Natural Dog Training (Neil Sattin)
70181 (VHS) - Good Dog U

The list supposed to be updated hourly. So maybe I'll check later to see how the ranking changes.

***

How about the best-selling books?

Surprisingly, the current top selling dog book is none of Cesar's books, but Oh My Dog by Beth O Stern and Kristina Grish which came out this month. But it gets only two-1/2 stars from 135 reviewers. Why is it so popular? The author's husband is Howard Stern. It's actually a collection of tips from experts, not first-hand from the author.

Cesar takes positions 2, 3, and 5. Surprisingly, no. 4 is an audio cassette(!) from the Monks of New Skete.

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