Eisenmann’s ideas
Training
How Charles P. Eisenmann described his work with dogs, through his books, demonstrations and recordings made with the dogs beside him.
For Chuck, training was only the beginning. He wanted to move from training to teaching, and from teaching to what he called education: helping a dog move beyond a fixed response when circumstances changed.
He also explicitly described some early groundwork as conditioning before what he regarded as teaching or education. In his own framework, repeated foundations could come first; the distinction rested on what he believed happened when a dog later met a changed problem.
These pages draw on Chuck’s books and on Educate Your Dog by the Eisenmann Method, a spoken LP issued in 1975. The LP is best understood as an overview of the principles behind his method rather than a step-by-step guide to training a dog.
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How he trained
What Chuck meant by training, teaching and educating an individual dog.
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Language and intelligence
How familiar sounds, changing phrases and vocabulary fitted into his ideas.
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Discipline
Reward, correction and the difficult parts of Chuck’s historical approach.
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Demonstrations and public appearances
How Chuck explained his ideas in the studio, on television and before live audiences.
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In Books & Recordings, you can explore Chuck’s publications and hear about his spoken-word LP — what you’ll find in each, and what they tell us about him and his life with the dogs.