Skills for Handling Your Reactive or Hyperactive Dog: A Workshop for Developing Focus and Impulse - Part 1: Essential Exercises (Live-Recorded Workshop)

I bought several of Dr Yin's items, in hopes I can help my VERY leash reactive/aggressive 10 month old, 80 pound, male doberman. With the situation quickly moving from just dogs as the antagonist to everything; children, bikes, skateboards, etc., I needed help. I read everything I could find, and then stumbled onto Dr. Yin, so I read everything I could on her website, and reviews, and decided to try her DVDs in hopes she had something more concrete to learn. She DID!! This DVD was extremely helpful and just what i was looking for in that it teaches you step by step, and while it can repetitive in parts as you watch her work with individual dogs and owners, it's great to see a training technique enough times with different dogs that it sinks in. This DVD is of her teaching a class with dog owners, where you see EXACTLY how to learn the techniques and then teach your dog. She starts with teaching the people how to do the exercise and practice it before working with their dogs. As with dancers, if the lead person doesn't know the steps inside and out, how can they possibly lead the other. You can't expect your dog to know what you want if you don't immediately lead them into the next step and movement. I found this to be the most helpful... to teach me the exercise that I can practice, then show me how to work with my dog doing the exercise.it's well worth the money. and if you have a dog like mine, who couldn't care less about you when it sees something it wants to go after, then I highly recommend this as it teaches the dog to pay attention to you. It also teaches you what to do when something happens that would normally distract the dog, or in my case, when he sees a dog 2 blocks away and goes ballistic. there is also a Part 2 DVD that is a continuation on this one, which I have not had a chance to watch yet, but will post a review when I do.

In this video, Dr. Yin is running a one-day training conference. At a podium, she goes through a series of "proof of concept" slides and videos that translate to to "treat really really fast to gain your dog's focus."She spends about 15 minutes of a 2-hour DVD discussing arm speed. Like, talking about measuring treat delivery in milliseconds.And yes. It makes sense. She extensively covers this basic concept.And then spends 60-90 minutes walking a handful of dogs and owners through the exact same exercise, which is: walk backward three steps, call for a sit, treat at light speed. Repeat ad nauseum. It is viewable at Dr. Yin's Blog. Google for "Dr. Yin Reactive Dog" and the article should be up top. The only exercise covered in the video is Exercise #1 from the article.But the video only offers one exercise. All exercises are done in a concrete conference centre. I feel that this video is a huge rip-off for a dog owner that wants to help their dog deal with reactivity.I paid $36 for this 2 hour DVD. As a comparison, I just paid $36 for the entire Planet Earth series on BluRay. Production quality and content just aren't there to justify the price. Go to the blog article I posted above if you want to learn the exercise (and more!)

It wasn't as in depth as I had hoped. I gave it the 4th star only because Sophia Yin was the presenter.

I was expecting much more than watching a group of participants learn to give treats at the appropriate speed. I know that is important, but an entire hour was devoted to it.

See my review for Part 2, The Next Steps for a Pleasant Walk

Great training video with lots of wonderful tips! The information re timing and posture is very helpful and you can actually do it along with the video to improve things. Showing the importance of practice without your dog is great too.

Very good DVD, Dr. Yin is excellent.

I thought it was great that it was done in a workshop setting because it shows all the mistakes the trainers make and the correct way to do it