The Ultimate Guide to Dog Training | 
 enlarge | Authors: Mordecai Siegal, Matthew "uncle Matty" Margolis
Publisher: Fireside
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 553390
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0684856468
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.70887
EAN: 9780684856469
ASIN: 0684856468
Publication Date: December 17, 1999
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Product Description
Did you ever stop to think that there's only one thing getting in the way of training your dog?You! From the bestselling authors of I Just Got a Puppy. What Do I Do?; Good Dog, Bad Dog; and When Good Dogs Do Bad Things comes this invaluable resource guide to shaping up your lovable canine companion. With their trademark praise, affection, humor, and easy-to-follow style, Siegal and Margolis will teach you how to: * Housebreak your dog for good! * Test your dog for temperament type * Create an everlasting emotional attachment with your dog * Evaluate, choose, and find the best training equipment * Master all the basic commands, such as sit, stay, heel, down, and come * Troubleshoot some of the most common behavior problems So join the many happy dogs and their owners who have gotten a new leash on life with the help of television's favorite trainer. Your pet will love you for it!
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 Uncle Mattie hogwash September 9, 2007
Uncle Mattie is a creep. I believe that dogs need training and different dogs need different things. I have 3 beautiful dachshunds. My older dachsie has back trouble and seisures. This is all part of what we think is bad breeding as the other 2 from different litters have zero health problems. My little girl is the sweetest thing in the world and so very well behaved. She would never bite and she is so patient and tolerant. Before I knew that she was having seisures at night, I discussed the problem with Uncle Mattie, (the creep) and he wanted me to fly my dog out to him so he could do some bruital training, (in his own words)with the dog. He stated that the dog was vicious and would get worse. What a creep. This dog would never hurt anyone or anything. What a putz! If I'd done what he asked I would have had to put the dog down. What a creep. OH yeah, and he said about 10 times, I should buy his book. IN HIS DREAMS!
 Good Doggie! August 29, 2006
While I agree with some of the other reviewers that much of "Uncle Matty's" irritatingly stupid cliental dialog could have been left out, the training concepts offered in this book between it all DO work.
 Good info; bad presentation. July 16, 2004
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am glad this book was purchased at a discount because it is so painful to read. The information is good, but it is presented in such a way as to drive off any thinking person. The book is written as a set of dialogs between "Uncle Matty" Margolis and his irritatingly stupid students. If these are real people, it is scary to think that they might be allowed to vote and drive cars. I found myself focusing on this aspect more than listening to what Mr. Margolis had to say in each lesson, which when one takes out the dialog, are actually pretty helpful. I suppose the problem is that once you've written one dog training book, there's not much else you can say on the subject. However, "Uncle Matty" needs to keep writing books (it's a living), and this is the result.
Not worth the $.. June 13, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was in a hurry when I chose this book, now I wish I'd spent a little more time flipping through it. Each section begins with dialogue between Matty and the people/dogs he is working with. That part is completely pointless, and not even entertaining to me. Finally I realized I could skip half of each chapter to get to the meat. Still though, there is pointless ad-libbing through the actually instructions! By skipping, it only took me 45 minutes to get through this book. If you can manage that, there is some usefull advice. However, for such a thick book, I was very surprised that it only covered basic commands. I am still a little confused about how to train my dog! Definately not worthy of "The Ultimate Guide.." title.
The Ultimate Guide to Dog Training August 4, 2001
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
The writing style was nauseating and it certainly isn't the ultimate guide to dog training.Not worth buying
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