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Before and After Getting Your Puppy: The Positive Approach to Raising a Happy, Healthy, and Well-Behaved Dog | 
 enlarge | Author: Dr. Ian Dunbar
Publisher: New World Library
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 15479
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 1577314557
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.70887
EAN: 9781577314554
ASIN: 1577314557
Publication Date: April 29, 2004
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Product Description
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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 Excellent October 16, 2008
dogluver (Seattle)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This a great book and should be required reading for all new dog owners. Dr. Dunbar has a proven track record and the science to back up the methods he uses. Ps. Also good for parents with small children. Many of the same principles apply.
Good Information for New Dog Owners August 31, 2008
?danielle. (New Jersey)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My husband and I are becoming puppy parents in a few weeks, I've worked with dogs before, he hasn't. I was looking for a book that would have some practical advice on how to prepare for our pups arrival and how to train our puppy to grow into a well behaved adult dog. This book offers practical, common sense advice and also gives some tips that one would only get from a professional trainer. The book is repetitive at times, but I believe that is done to help drive home a point. It is organized into very helpful chapters that align with the developmental stages of your puppy and is focused as much on training dog owners as it is on training dogs. The "deadlines" provided are really guidelines and let you as an owner know what the critical points are in training a dog, but just like kids, all puppies are different, so you need to do what works for your dog. I've already marked important pages and anticipate looking back to this book often as I work with my new pup!
Before and After Getting Your Puppy: The Positive Approach to Raising a Happy, Healthy, and Well-Behaved Dog June 13, 2008
J. Smith
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A must read for anyone considering getting a new puppy. The best book I've read on selecting, caring and training a puppy.
The housetraining instructions were especially helpful and my 11 week old puppy is doing beautifully and is even letting me know when she needs to go outside.
Some people just don't get it.... April 9, 2008
E. Rodriguez
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I checked this book out at the library and have been impressed thus far. I think the people who are writing negative reviews because of the "deadlines" are not really getting what he's saying. He's not saying you're going to ruin your dog for life, but it will be more difficult to train and live with your dog if you don't establish certain routines and habits by a certain time frame. I'm a firm believer that a dog can be trained at any point in their life, but I think every dog trainer can agree that dogs are creatures of habit. Establishing good habits early is better and easier then trying to break bad ones later on. Plus these bad habits are what cause dogs to become nuisances to everybody. And this is why there are so many dogs who are at shelters.
I don't agree with everything in his book, especially feeding your dog through kongs throughout the day. I don't see how this is beneficial to give a dog food all day while you are potty training him. A set schedule of feeding seems to be more inline so you know exactly when your dog needs to go.
The best positive training puppy book April 7, 2008
aussiemom (massachusetts)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the best puppy training book out there. ALL new puppy owners should be required to read this book before taking their puppy home. Easy to read, easy to understand, realistic positive puppy training!
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