Dogs have been companions to humans for thousands of years but we did not start officially training them until the early 1900’s.  Many consider the father of modern traditional training to be German trainer named Colonel Konrad Most.  He authored a book entitled Training Dogs a Manual in 1910.   Colonel Most had a military background.  He started training dogs while serving as Police Commissioner at the Royal Prussian Police headquarters in 1906.  He later trained military dogs in World War I and from 1919 to 1937 he was head of the Canine Research Department of the Army High Command. […]