Most people know that Dr. Ian Dunbar & I have a dog training business called SIRIUS® Puppy & Dog Training. Some people even know that twenty-six years ago SIRIUS was the first puppy training school. They simply didn’t exist before 1982, if you wanted to take your dog to a class to teach her to mind her manners or to nip puppy nipping in the bud before she was six-months old, well, you were out of luck back then.
SIRIUS was the beginning of a revolution in dog training. Puppy training begot pet or companion dog training. You know, dog training for regular folks that had no plans to prance around in a ring or perform wild athletic skills, people who counted their dog as their buddy and just wanted him to come when called, maybe not jump up on people.
All of that is well and good, but it was twenty-six years ago, and we here at Dunbar Headquarters are ready for the next revolution.
This is what Dog Star Daily is, Dog 2.0: the next revolution in dog training.
We are in the process of “going green” with all of our training products. We are digitizing everything, essentially digitizing Ian’s brain and all 30 years of his experience in dog behavior and training.
Right now we have audio books, e-books, and audio single-topic programs available at lulu.com. In the age of the ipod what better way to get your training info and insight than by listening to Ian while you're driving, or better yet, while you're playing with your dog!
This site has over 200 videos to help you train and to entertain you. Video is a great way to see a technique in action. We also have a digital training textbook that utilizes both text and video right here. And this is just the beginning of what we’ve got planned.
Ultimately we are very excited to embrace the new technology because it is dogs in general who will most benefit from this revolution. Solid, tried and true training information is now available at your fingertips here on the site, so please take a look around and then get out and use what you’ve learned to spend some quality time with your dog. Training keeps dogs out of shelters and that is why we do what we do.
You can read more about the history of SIRIUS here.
Check out our current list of digital dog training products here.
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Green Training
A big thank you from me for making it so very easy to educate my students without using the huge amount of paper it used to take! With the articles, behavior blueprints, training videos and everything else readily available online, I have been able to do away with training packets full of handouts and worksheets.
No one loses their homework anymore, and I have more time to actually teach my students as I'm spending ZERO time printing handouts.
Besides the environmental factor, I feel secure knowing that my students never have to panic if they have a problem. Even if they can't reach me immediately, Dog Star Daily is right there for them, anytime.
Thank you from me, my students and the dogs!
Cindy Bruckart
Green in more ways than one.
Thanks Cindy, for recognizing the purpose of this site and what Ian & I are trying to do with Dog Star Daily. I am glad you find the site so useful.
I wanted to point out that while everyone thinks of saving paper (and therefore trees) when thinking of digital products, there is also the added benefit of not using any FUEL to "ship" digital products. Consider free and environmentally safe shipping!
Ebooks and audio books will become more common out of necessity as people try to depend less on oil.
Kelly Gorman Dunbar
Editor, Dog Star Daily
Not just green...
As if this being a great resource for trainers and their clients and being environmentally responsible were not enough but it is also a great help to have essential reading available in audio books that are easy to get. I deal with a number of different groups that would include people with literacy problems and learning difficulties who may not be able for or may be intimidated by a "serious" book. So thanks to you and all the team for making that difference!
Anne Rogers
Pet Central, Ireland
Wondered from the title what that revolution would be...
SO glad to read what you are doing. This is really, really important environmentally as of course you know, but another benefit that I for one will notice is the international availability of this quality of dog training information.
As an American currently living in Mexico (and considering whether to turn into an expat), one of the more frustrating things is not being able to get my hands on whatever dog training (or other) book or DVD I want, right when I want it. The digital revolution is tremendously important to me. Dr. Dunbar's brain online? Yes!!!
Also, I've watched the stats for my dog training website (devoted to positive methods) for several years now, and people come to it from all over the world. I used to have a world map on my site where the locations of readers were automatically posted. Of course, most were from the US and other big English-speaking countries, but it was a thrill to see Cap Verde or Venezuela or Mongolia show as having a reader. Your digitizing will help people EVERYWHERE get information, especially with the good prices you have put on the products at Lulu.
I was going to quit there but just thought of something else. I don't know if you are aware that dog training is one of the "hot" internet marketing topics, which means that far mediocre dog training ebooks exist than useful ones. As a former librarian, I got hot under the collar recently and blogged about this:
http://www.training-dogs.com/blog/why-most-dog-training-ebooks-are-medio...
So that's another way your project will help, and I have just made a note to blog about it!
Rosana Hart
Going green
Just wanted to say the site is great especially for someone like me who is starting out learning about dogs and training them. It's so much easier when everything is digital. Your training material is always one click away. Thanks.
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