William koehler dog trainer autobiography

Influential Dog Trainers and their Contributions Part 2

This is continuing series on the most influential people in dog training and how they effect how we train dogs today.

Most and Koehler

Colonel Conrad Most wrote Training Dogs in 1910.

This work is thought by many to be one of, if not the first, dog training “how to” manual.

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William Koehler had served as principal trainer at the War Dog Training Center, in California, and after the war became chief trainer for the Orange Empire.

The Koehler Method of Guard Dog Training; An Effective & Authoritative Guide for Selecting, Training & Maintaining Dogs in Home Protection, Plant Security.

An effective & authoritative guide for selecting, training & maintaining dogs in home protection, plant security, police, & military work.

The Koehler Method of Dog Training, William Koehler, HB Version ; BEST DOG OBEDIENCE BOOK EVER WRITTEN.

Colonel Most began training police dogs in 1906 in Germany. Soon thereafter he began to explain canine learning tendencies from a handler’s perspective. In his manual Training Dogs the Colonel exhibited an extraordinary understanding of the principles of operant conditioning, this was nearly thirty-years prior to the publication of B.

F. Skinner’s The Behavior of Organisms. In the 1940’s Colonel Most was sharing his knowledge with the trainers at the German Dog Farm, a center that trained dogs for the blind. Many of his methods would be considered “heavy-handed” by today’s standard