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Before and After Getting Your Puppy: The Positive Approach to Raising a Happy, Healthy, and Well-Behaved Dog

by Ian Dunbar

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ISBN13: 9781577314554
ISBN10: 1577314557
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Combining two popular titles in one value-priced edition, Before and After Getting Your Puppy is a simple, practical guide for anyone bringing a new puppy into the home. In clear steps, with helpful photos and easy-to-follow training deadlines, Dr. Ian Dunbar, who pioneered puppy classes and a loving style of dog training in the 1970s, presents a structured yet playful and humorous plan for raising a wonderful dog. The guide is based on six developmental deadlines: completing owner education and preparation, assessing a puppy's prior socialization and education, teaching errorless house-training and chewtoy-training, completing a socialization program of meeting strange dogs and people, learning bite inhibition, and continuing a program of ongoing training. In the first half of the book, Dr. Dunbar focuses on what the owner needs to know to select a great puppy. In the second half, he presents the crucial lessons the puppy must be taught during its impressionable early development — using a kind, positive approach that, over time, has been proven the most effective.

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"The star of the British television show Dogs with Dunbar has been teaching pet owners to train their dogs humanely and thoroughly for over 30 years. In this compassionate and honest volume, the veterinarian shares his definitive opinions about the way dogs should be trained. This is a great tool that anyone who wants to get a dog should peruse before they bring their pup home because, as the author points out, owning a dog is a big responsibility, and 'millions of dogs are euthanized each year simply because their owners did not know how to housetrain or chewtoy-train them.' Dunbar includes information that prospective dog owners should know before they select a puppy, and he also explains how to meet his proscribed series of important Developmental Deadlines (two of which come up even before the dog reaches its new home!). In addition to a step-by-step guide to every stage of puppyhood, the book includes practical services, such as a pre-puppy shopping list and lists of the best dog training books and videos." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

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A practical guide to selecting and training your young dog, from the creator of off-the-lead puppy training classes.

Synopsis:

In clear steps, with helpful photos and easy-to-follow training deadlines, Dr. Dunbar, who pioneered puppy classes and a loving style of dog training in the 1970s, presents a structured yet playful and humorous plan for raising a wonderful dog.

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christicr4, November 9, 2006 (view all comments by christicr4)
A must read before bringing your puppy home, and for life thereafter. Written by THE most respected dog trainer of our time. All of his books are great, but this one should be at the top of all dog owners lists. The positive methods he introduces really work, and they are SO easy to master, my kids love to train our dogs now!
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781577314554
Subtitle:
The Positive Approach to Raising a Happy, Healthy, and Well-Behaved Dog
Author:
Dunbar, Ian
Author:
Dunbar, Dr Ian
Publisher:
New World Library
Location:
Novato, Calif.
Subject:
Dogs - General
Subject:
Dogs
Subject:
Dogs - Care/Health
Subject:
Puppies
Subject:
PETS / Dogs / General
Subject:
Dogs - Training
Copyright:
Edition Number:
Paper Over Board
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Volume:
no. 1
Publication Date:
April 2004
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
900x600

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