>Chris Bach has some excellent training techniques— many of which we used with our dogs, and one in particular helped keep the treat focused dogs more in check— To get the treat, one must give up the treat...<
They say nothing is new on the planet. The European Schutzhund trainers have been using that bit of dog psychology for eons. Not to diss Chris.
Chris happens to be the one who taught us “Doggy Zen”. We worked with Chris one on one back in the late 90’s, so I don't recall whether she gave disclaimers or not about where she pulled different exercises for us. I just know she truly loved our dog (only one dog at that point in time).
We've encountered the similar principals with other dog people in times since, but for us, I'm glad we learned it from Chris.
Focus on positive reinforcement also not Chris’ invention. But, she managed to pull things together in a way that made sense— and was workable— for us.
Was also privileged to meet Gary Wilkes of Click & Treat, and had the opportunity to work with him during one of his seminars.(http://www.clickandtreat.com/) He is also awesome. He did not invent clicker training. But he was the one who helped make it work for us.
Suzanne Clothier gets a positive rating.
I cannot give a very high rating to another animal behaviorist who we worked with one-on-one. Highly acclaimed in her area of expertise. Our experience did not match up with that, and as such, I will not post her name here.
For CSM, Gary Wilkes used to have a lot of free training articles at his site. Also, some public libraries have his videos/dvds/books. I just haven't had occasion to ‘see what's out there’ on the dog training front of late.