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Dianna M. Young, Award-Winning author, began her dog-training career in Germany, where she served three years of apprenticeship under skilled master trainers, studying and participating in dog training for police-service work, security, scent detection, personal protection, tracking and search-and-rescue.
Dianna returned to the United States and enrolled in a nationally accredited school for professional dog trainers, where she continued her studies in canine behavior, all facets of professional dog training and animal husbandry. Upon completing her schooling, she worked and studied for several years in animal-related fields in New York state.
Dianna also served as an Animal Control Officer, enforcing animal-related laws and ordinances in New York state, and managed a 103-animal-capacity shelter and holding facility for a New York township.
Dianna then apprenticed under world-renowned Certified Master Trainer John M. Henkel of New Milford, Connecticut. While employed at the Henkel teaching and training facility, Dianna assisted John with classes for the personnel of many law-enforcement and security agencies in New York and New England, and also with providing trained dogs world-wide to celebrities and dignitaries for personal and estate protection.
After returning to her native Pacific Northwest, Dianna began her own consulting and training services, and spent two years as canine-behavior consultant and in-store dog trainer for outlets of a national pet-supply store chain in two Washington cities.
In 1997 Dianna opened her own training and boarding facility, Camano Island Kennels, where she trains dogs successfully for a wide range of clients. People come to her with needs that range from simple obedience training to the finding and implementing of solutions for complex behavioral problems. She is a first-choice for some veterinarians who seek training for themselves and their own dogs, and teaches classes and seminars in dog-handling for the staff s of veterinary hospitals, animal shelters and rescue organizations.
Since moving to Camano Island, Dianna also has competed successfully at the international level with her own personal service dogs. Some have ranked very high for training in national and international Sieger shows, in which dogs demonstrate proficiency with skills similar to those used by police-service dogs. This has included attaining the position of number-one dog in the United States and number-one dog in Canada in their respective classes.
Reviewed by Karen Pirnot for Readers' Favorite
If you have a dog to train, consider picking up a copy of Think Like Your Dog and Enjoy the Rewards by Dianna Young and Robert Mottram. The premise of the book is that dogs are distinctly different from humans in their genetic make-up and if you understand that critical difference, you can effectively train almost any dog. Young explains that all dogs are naturally either followers or leaders and that they have a keen sense of rank, whether in a dog pack or in the family environment. To effectively train your dog, you must give early and prominent clues to your dog that you are in charge. Various psychological approaches which are recognized in psychological research offer diverse ways of dog training. But the ideology of positive reinforcement has proven most effective to author Young who is also a certified and award-winning trainer.
It is difficult to argue with the success of Young and readers would be smart to heed her advise. A well-trained family dog is a happy dog and the owner also derives pleasure in knowing there are limits and boundaries in the expectations and privileges of pet ownership. Terms such as reinforcement, desensitization, and social learning are all critical training components. Young believes that owners who recognize their inability to stick with a regimented training schedule would do well to enroll their dog and themselves in a training program. For those willing to undergo a rigorous training schedule, skills such as heeling, sitting, laying down, staying, and coming on command are explained in detail. Think Like Your Dog and Enjoy the Rewards is an easy to comprehend manual that should be on the shelf of every new dog owner.
