Ian Dunbar Quotes

When I'm training a dog, I develop a relationship with that dog. He's my buddy, and I want to make training fun.

Owners sometimes think their dogs have already suffered so much that they couldn't possibly inflict any more criticism. Yet it's that very firm, effective training that would make those dogs happier and more secure.

Many dogs grow up without rules or boundaries. They need exercise, discipline and affection in that order.

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

I believe a calm dog is a happy, obedient dog that won't get into trouble.

Though each trainer believes his or her method is best, I don't think it matters which method the pet owner adopts so long as that owner finds a capable mentor and sticks with the training. Eventually you will learn to see your dog, and when that happens, the richness of your and your dog's lives will tell you what to do next.

Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.

Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result.

I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.

You really do learn every day with every dog; they are all so unique and different. But if you're patient and you understand where they're coming from, and if you are consistent, they will be fine. They teach you to give your full attention.

I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.

Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.

I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.

I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.

My best parenting advice would be not to take the job too seriously. Teach your kids to be nice, and everything else falls into place.

Parenting definitely has some challenging moments.

Spend enough time wrangling a toddler, and you get good at being kind but firm. Like your child, you must be doggedly single-minded when it matters.

All children will do things that you may not want them to. That's part of parenting.

With a dog, people are not disciplined. They think that by spoiling a dog the dog is going to love them more. But the dog misbehaves more because they give affection at the wrong time.

INSTRUCTORS CAN impart a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of Peace are brought to life.

Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.