Hi, I was asked about positive training methods. Perhaps you know Anders Hallgren who is the most famous trainer from Sweden. Severeal of his books has been translated in English. Anders Hallgren had is own school for trainers and many of his students are now our countries positive trainers of dogs. It is difficult to find something written in English, but here are some links.
Some words about Anders you find here and also on one of his books. http://www.biz-plan.info/dogsmart/andersresume.html http://www.biz-plan.info/dogsmart/abcorder.html About a training project: http://www.iaadp.org/sweden.html A translation from one of Anders books, "Backproblems in dogs": http://www.idt.unit.no/~haugenes/hund/backproblems.html Here you find a new book on smoke alarms trainings of dogs: http://www.dogbasics.co.uk/books.html or http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0971682402/avsearch-bkasin-20/104-560 8231-8447951#product-details One trainer from Norway is Turid Rugaas. You also find one of her books in English if you look at literature: http://turid-rugaas.no/UKFront.htm Hope these links can give both information and inspiration. Sweden won in obedience classes this year in Dortmund and the positive training methods which are used here are one of the reason Swedish trainers and dogs are front-ranked. Keep on training in happiness - Bernerhugs, Margareta Strand Stockholm
