Top 49 Quotes About Training A Dog
#1. When I'm training a dog, I develop a relationship with that dog. He's my buddy, and I want to make training fun.
Ian Dunbar
#2. The thing about computers - it's like training a dog. You have to be smarter than the dog. If you make a computer smarter than you are, that has to be accident, synergy, or divine intervention.
Frank Herbert
#3. Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. These are fun things we do together. If anyone even talks about dominating the dog or hurting him or fighting him or punishing him, don't go there.
Ian Dunbar
#4. In training a dog you must reward only those behaviors you desire the dog to repeat endlessly.
Alexandra Horowitz
#5. Feeding the media is like training a dog. You can't throw an entire steak at a dog to train it to sit. You have to give it little bits of steak over and over again until it learns.
Andrew Breitbart
#6. Good dog! Nice fetch!"
"He wasn't fetching."
"Bring her here, boy. Good job!"
The dog looked from Zack to me.
"I've been training him," Zack said. "Up till now he's brought home only dead rabbits, but I guess he's finally getting the hang of it.
Elizabeth Chandler
#7. He wasn't a man, but a tape recorder, repeating catch phrases and old slogans without any thought to the concepts behind them, a dog stuck in the training of his youth and faithfully executing his tasks long after his master had moved on.
Harvey Pekar
#8. Dog training should not be a chore!
Tony Cruse
#9. Do not feed that beggar. Hamlet, lie down." The dog ignored her.
"Down," Viktor ordered, his deep voice stern. The dog whined and then lay down. The prince looked at her. "You need to be more forceful."
"I suppose my forcefulness will improve once my voice changes. Sopranos get no respect.
Patricia Grasso
#10. An open mind and helpful hands can do much to change a dog's future.
Mary Debono
#11. I got a dog-training book. It says Grendel needs mental stimulation, so I tried to train him, but I think he must be retarded.
Ilona Andrews
#12. Where are the dogs?" I asked.
"At training," he said. "I have a friend who's an expert dog trainer, and he's giving them some stealth lessons. He used to work for a local K-9 unit."
I didn't think it was in the Chihuahua genetic code to ever be stealthy.
Richelle Mead
#13. I deliberately returned slowly to training after Raphael was born and everything, apart from being bitten by a dog whilst out training in Monaco at the beginning of the year, has gone pretty well.
Paula Radcliffe
#14. Training is a loop, a two-way communication in which an event at one end of the loop changes events at the other, exactly like a cybernetic feedback system; yet many psychologists treat their work as something they do to a subject, not with the subject.
Karen Pryor
#15. Movement is vital. Whether it's running, cross training, hiking with the dogs, or walking the streets of New York, I am constantly active.
Theo Rossi
#16. If uncertain, it's best to pass by a possibly good dog than risk injury.
Joel M. McMains
#17. You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.
Ian Dunbar
#18. She is such a scene-stealer. She's got these lashes and big eyes, and when she walks on to the set everybody just says "ooh."
Greg Kinnear
#19. I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like conscience.
Charles Darwin
#20. When I address Fred I never have to raise either my voice or my hopes.
E.B. White
#21. My dog watches me on TV. So, if I may take this opportunity, "No! No! No!"
Garry Shandling
#22. All my dogs have been scamps and thieves and troublemakers and I've adored them all.
Helen Hayes
#23. Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.
Jeanne Schinto
#24. While observing some people with their dogs, it is often a question of who is training whom. It is not uncommon to see an owner with their arms extended, holding on for dear life, while their dog runs wild. Unfortunately, I was becoming one of those owners.
Elizabeth Parker
#25. It is very easy to forget how much of a pain training is when you have a dog for so long, but trust me, it's not as easy and quick as we all hope.
Jenna Morasca
#26. Most owners are at length able to teach themselves to obey their dog.
Robert Morley
#27. Show me a dog who still cannot perform a task after it has been trained over and over again, and I'll tell you who the slow learner is.
Barry McDonald
#28. Yes, it will go through the disciplines that all puppies go through including house training and puppy walking, then at twelve month old it the training becomes a lot more rigorous which has to be done carefully otherwise you are in danger of stressing the dog.
David Blunkett
#29. They were as different as honesty and truth, but it takes experience to see the dissimilarities. Rocky was friendly, outgoing and boisterous; Charger was sullen, withdrawn and paranoid. Rocky liked people; Charger didn't. Rocky could trust; Charger didn't know the meaning of the word.
Joel M. McMains
#30. I would rather have cookies in my jacket pockets than a chain around my dog's neck.
Pat Miller
#31. No dog training method should ever be used if it conflicts with how you feel about your dog and how he should be treated. And no advice should ever be heeded if it supersedes your own common sense and intuition.
Paul Owens
#32. A Canadian psychologist is selling a video that teaches you how to test your dog's IQ. Here's how it works: if you spend $12.99 for the video, your dog is smarter than you.
Jay Leno
#33. To me dogs are not the students, not the ones that need training. To me a dog is a teacher of life, who teaches us the principles of the most important moral values; honesty, integrity, loyalty, trust, respect and love.
Cesar Millan
#34. I'm on good form. I'm an older guy. I feel healthy, I've been training, I'm looking after myself, I get up early. I look after the dogs. I'm happy.
Robbie Williams
#35. To Tom Carlson or his dog-depending on whose taste it best suits.
Ogden Nash
#36. And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he is-but, then, he's the one who paid for it.
Julia Glass
#37. In dog culture, when someone calls you, you should absolutely not come if that results in the ending of something you like or initiation of something you don't like.
Jean Donaldson
#38. The biggest mistake in puppy training, which is also the most common one, is punishing the dog for bad behavior.
Vivaco Books
#39. No dog is as well bred or as well mannered or as distinguished and handsome.
Eugene O'Neill
#40. As you get better and better working out, there's no one who can keep up with you running. If you don't have a good dog, it's going to be the most lonesome training camp you'll ever have.
George Foreman
#41. The essence of Druidry is training the mind to both handle contradictory input and construct contradictory output.'
What? Oh. Well
'I continued to lecture a bit more, to disguise the fact that I was getting my ass handed to me by my dog.
Kevin Hearne
#42. The only food he has ever stolen has been down on a coffee table. He claims that he genuinely believed it to be a table meant for dogs.
Jean Little
#45. I'd rather have a kid come up to me and tell me that he loves dinosaurs or he loves airplanes or he likes training dogs or I like Shakespeare. I mean, just something.
Temple Grandin
#46. A lot of people think I am the one to turn to for dog behavior issues. I'm not. All you have to do is meet Tucker; you'll know that I'm not an expert at training dogs.
Bruce Cameron
#47. I can train any dog in 5 minutes. It's training the owner that takes longer.
Barbara Woodhouse
#48. He listens to his trainer real good. He just doesn't listen to me. I still can't get him to do nothing.
Evander Holyfield
#49. I like them all-pointers, setters, retrievers, spaniels-what have you. I've had good ones and bad of several kinds. Most of the bad ones were my fault and most of the good ones would have been good under any circumstances.
Gene Hill
