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Training Dogs with Love

The Oprah Winfrey Show  |  January 01, 2006
Tamar Geller discusses the shrieking dolphin technique.

Instead of telling a dog "no" when it's doing something wrong, Tamar makes a high-pitched noise that she calls the "shrieking dolphin." "I don't believe in saying no to a dog. I believe in doing it like a mental diet on focusing on what is the yes," Tamar says. "But every once in a while you need to let your dog know they're doing something wrong."

Tamar makes a noise with her throat that sounds like a dolphin. "And that dog goes, like, 'What just happened?' And, voom, he's there and I can redirect him to what I want him to do," she says.

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