Yarnell Video Review

"several months ago, Voodoo Lou Castle started hyping his buddy Donn Yarnalls new video on this and several other lists. I along with several other people fell for the hype and shelled out the $30 for the tape and shipping. Don't waste your money :-( When they can't even spell Guidance correctly on the title, you know you're in trouble. The only feedback I ever saw, expressed disappointment. There is NO audible signal on the demo work. It is impossible to evaluate an e-collar training method if you can't tell when the instructor is using the collar. The dogs supposedly "trained" with this method, were mainly retired Sch 3 dogs. I think maybe "retrained" would be a more accurate description, they "probably" already knew how to bite. When Voodoo Lou was asked how this method, worked with a discrete setting collar (Tritronics) instead of the variable (rheostat) Dogtra. He tap danced around with BS about approximating the variable setting with the tritronics and how the guidance system was a Philosophy you could do with a leash and collar Voodoo Lou really got amusing when he came up with the this system was SO ADVANCED, that if "you" WERE NOT AN EXPERIENCED user you could not understand ROTFLMFAO!!
BOTTOM LINE IT IS A PROMO TAPE TO SELL DOGTRA COLLARS. it has little EDUCATIONAL VALUE"

"Sorry this reply is late in coming. Holidays thru a cramp into accomplishing many things and I wanted to review the video one more time. I was not impressed given the dogs reactions on film. They were using dogs just learning however. The heeling was poor in my estimation, and this was on some SchIII dogs. While I will continue to use the "Hassen" method since that is what I am familiar with, it did cause me to consider the use of the continuous button and its advantages/disadvantages.

Has the discussion of momentary/continuous stimulation been pounded to death yet? I would imagine it has."

"Donn Yarnall Video

Donn's video is a very good one to get for those that want a good laugh. Watching Yarnall do absolutely nothing as his handler gets nipped at on quite a few occasions while heeling, is worth the price of the video itself. Yarnall finally gives it the old 2nd grade "I think the handler stepped on the dog's foot" routine, which wouldn't go over with anyone with half a brain. The funniest part though, is when Yarnall explains his famous "Combat drive" while a weak biting dog does it's thing. It's hard to tell whether it is that the dogs are so weak, or that the training is so bad, but in any case it is comical that Yarnall thinks he would fool a police crowd into thinking that these dogs would protect them. I would be curious to know how many actual 'live' bites these dogs have. Anything over "1" would be impressive. I feel the most embarrassing thing to Mr. Yarnall, is that after 20 something years in the police dog world, that this is the best that he could show of his work. This video MIGHT impress someone that knew little to nothing about biting dogs, but that would be the end of it. Coming off of the bite was not impressive considering that the going in was so weak. Let's all keep one thing in mind, we're supposedly talking about POLICE DOGS, and it's brought to us as if Donn Yarnall is something special. The tape is weak in both areas. You will learn absolutely nothing from these tapes, and it's safe to say that just about any local club dog would show more desire to bite. Decoy work is pitiful as well. Don't waste your time, or your money.

J.A"

"A waste of money, time, postage, and video tape."

"Whoo BABY! I received my Yarnell video in the mail and I watched it twice. It's all I expected: pure bullshit. The best thing Yarnell could hope to do, is go to somebody like Gene England, and LEARN to use electricity the right way for a couple of months. But if you're looking for a comedy video, this is one of the better examples of what not to do.
The part I liked the BEST was Yarnell and the cigar. And a mouth full of tobacco. This is the sign of an EXPERT dog trainer, make no mistake about it."

"Great tape to see a bunch of head twitching, and handler biting, a real setback for ecollar enthusiasts."

"I purchased the Donn Yarnall video in attempts to learn how to use the Dogtra e-collar on my dog. Well I watched it maybe five times and had to call Dogtra and ask them if they had any other vids that could teach me the basics of how to use the e-collar. The quality of the video simply sucks. You can't hear the supposed beep of the continuous stimulation so you have no idea what is going on. The only clue that might tell you when there is stimulation is the dog jumping back and twitching. The video only has one dog that has "never" used the callar before (YEAH RIGHT). The dog did a perfect call off on the first attemt and according to him he had never done "anything other than straight bite work". The other three dogs are less than spectacular and are all highly trained SchIII dogs. How does seeing a SchIII dog help me understand how to train a "green" dog. In my opinion this video was made just to say that they made a video."