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

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

Before and After Getting Your Puppy: The Positive Approach to Raising a Happy, Healthy, and Well-Behaved Dog
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Author: Dr. Ian Dunbar
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-04-29
ISBN: 1577314557
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: New World Library

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Book Review: too authoritarian, don't waste your time.
Summary: 1 Stars

I found the author to be very authoritarian in his view and advice. I got the sense that it was all or nothing. That if you failed to do one of his recommendations or do it at the wrong time, that you were doomed to have a puppy that would become a great problem later. Also advice such as take two weeks off of work to work with the puppy once you had brought them home is beyond the pail, especially given the current economic times. Do not waste you time with this book. Go get one of Ceasar Milan's books, you will be better off.
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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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