Before and After Getting Your Puppy
The Positive Approach to Raising a Happy, Healthy, and Well-Behaved Dog
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Narrated by:
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Michael Page
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Written by:
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Ian Dunbar
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Before and After Getting Your Puppy is a simple, practical guide for anyone bringing a new puppy into the family. In clear steps, with 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 chew-toy training
- Completing a socialization program of meeting strange dogs and people
- Learning bite inhibition
- A continuing 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. Over time, Dr. Dunbar's kind, positive program has been proven the most effective.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
©2004 Dr. Ian Dunbar (P)2016 TantorWhat listeners say about Before and After Getting Your Puppy
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- Danielle
- 2021-06-06
MUST READ IF YOU ARE GETTING A PUPPY
Fantastic. Must read if you are getting a puppy. How NOT to ruin your puppy should be the name of this book.
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- Sandy Smith
- 2018-05-31
Simply the best resource. Period.
Dr. Dunbar has dedicated his life to educating people on how to prevent unwanted behaviour with good puppy rearing. I think it should be mandatory for every person to learn these simple things before getting a puppy :)
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-12-09
A must read before getting your puppy
I have read many books on dogs from general obedience to dog sports dog tricks scent work. In my option this is by far the most informative easy to read dog book I have read. This book is so good I first downloaded as a free PDF file and because I enjoyed it so much I bought the book and then I bought it as an audio book so when I am at work I can listen to it. When I meet people when I am training my dog and they ask me about dog training my first piece of advice is before getting your new puppy the first thing to do is to get educated and this is the book I always refer to. Excellent read. Thank you dr. Dunbar.
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- Fred
- 2021-09-17
All you need is this book
Very easy to listen to. I especially liked the repetition of key points, and the emphasis on training oneself
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- Matthew Grieves
- 2019-11-18
Good concepts and theory but lacks depth
I think this book is great for people who haven't got their puppy/dog yet. It does a good job of illustrating the amount of work required to properly train a puppy. The concepts are great, but overall this book is way to vague.
Often the book would say "teach your dog to enjoy being silent on their own", "teach your dog to...."...But the book never explains how to teach your dog these skills.
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