Another dog training book I put off for way too long.

On one level, the most fascinating thing in this book is how many of her idiosyncrasies had slipped into my training, after I spent 6 months interning at Ahimsa (her former school).  I say ‘good choice’, I have a lot of her early leash handling skills, I intervene proactively when dog-dog interactions are going sideways. These all come straight from the trainers at Ahimsa, who (at that time) all had worked personally with Stewart.

But mostly, mostly this was about learning BAT, learning how to apply BAT (thinking of how to use it with Hazard), learning how to teach it to owners, and thinking expansively about how dogs learn to socialize appropriately.

What a phenomenal book. And more than any other dog training book I’ve read, it credits and recommends other trainers and techniques, recognizing that BAT is a deep-not-broad approach, and that CU or Really Reliable Recall might be better for other issues.