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 enlarge | Author: The Monks Of New Skete
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
List Price: $24.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  182 reviews
Sales Rank: 2319
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 274
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0316578398
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.707
UPC: 400307318974
EAN: 9780316578394
ASIN: 0316578398
Publication Date: March 20, 1991
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Condition: Bottom corner at spine damaged but not bad. Book is otherwise in very good shape. Acceptable, shows wear, markings and or highlighting
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 Limited Scope -- Disappointing December 1, 2006
20 out of 26 found this review helpful
This book came highly recommended, as being very popular with vets and puppy owners. It has a lot of information on training a puppy to come, sit, lay down, heel, etc. There is also interesting information about dog psychology. Most of the advice in this book depends upon someone being home with the puppy all day long, everyday.
We got a new puppy three weeks ago. Knowing little about dogs and nearly nothing about puppy care, we purchased this book as our primary source for puppy raising advice. I'm very disappointed. Some of the early puppy training games are fun and seem to work fine. Some of "how to speak puppy" advice seems to work. The "how to pick a puppy" appendix (a couple pages only) worked great. But most of our puppy raising questions are not answered.
Numerous topics of extreme interest to new dog owners are simply not addressed. There is no advice on problem behavior, how to teach your puppy good manners, and such. What if your dog barks too much -- from what I've read the most common reason for someone to give up a dog? The authors don't say, just "puppies bark". How to tell when puppy is house trained fully? Nope. How to get puppy to tell you when they need to go out? Nothing. What about jumping on furniture? Go fish. How should I house train if I can't be there for puppy every 1.5 hours all day long? Nothing. How do I train my puppy to calmly accept being alone for brief periods? Apparently, you don't. What toys are good for dogs? No opinion given. What is a simple game that kids can safelty play with my dog? Nope, they apparently haven't heard of playing with dogs.
Additionally, some of the advice simply does not work. Their durring meal advice is to force the puppy to lay quietly, by putting a foot on the leash close to the collar. All this accomplishes is a franticly squirming dog. How is that helpful? I'd like to have our puppy lay quietly during meals, but this book will never help accomplish this. Their companion advice on meals is that having a whole lot of other dogs laying quietly during meals demonstrating the desired behaivor helps. Well, that is useless to me!
Overall, a very disappointing book that claims a lot and delivers little.
 Art of Raising a Puppy November 13, 2006
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a great book for learning about dog training. I bought this copy for a friend.
Great Book November 4, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book for anyone who is a first time owner of a puppy. The author give great insight into the mind of a dog. There are great tips to properly motivate a dog to behave and understand what makes him/her act the way they do.
 other methods October 22, 2006
6 out of 19 found this review helpful
Meanwhile a lot of other people written very good books in a very different stile:
Suzanne Clothier (Bones would rain from the Sky)
Patricia McConnell (The other end of the Leash)
Turid Rugaas (Calming Signals)
We have three Irish Setter and we prefer a soft method for our dogs.
louisa August 30, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Excellent book for the serious dog lover. A great way to prepare for a new puppy. I have read a lot of books but Monks Of New Skete hit every topic on target. You don't have to be a GSD owner to benefit - they address what breed is best for you and shelter rescues. They take you step by step from birth to help you understand puppy's needs and developmental phase. I have bought this book for several people because I think it's a MUST HAVE.
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