Metrodog: The Essential Guide to Raising Your Dog in the City

by Brian Kilcommons

Book Overview

In this thorough guide, the authors of Paws to Consider tell urban dog owners how to do everything from housetraining a puppy when the sidewalk is 40 floors away to preventing Rover from barking in a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446679186
• ISBN13: 9780446679183
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Metrodog: Not Just For City Folk

But particularly helpful for those of us who take on the highly rewarding challenge of sharing our busy city lives with a canine companion. It may just make you want to grab your dog and move to the big city! Useful for ALL dog owners and a NECESSITY for urban dog owners. Great photographs. Accessible to the average dog owner but with interesting, unique information for seasoned dog-lovers.I am a HUGE MetroDog fan. There's advice in there that I've NEVER seen anywhere else, and I have 2+ shelves worth of dog books in my house. Nowhere else discusses how to secure your dog safely while you grab a cup of coffee, or how to hail a cab with your dog, for example. One of the most *practical* books - and not just for city dwellers. Suburbanites without fenced yards or even just full-time workers will find much useful info.

Kilcommons and Wilson have done it again.

I thought I would like this book, and I did. I've read all of the authors' other books about dogs, and this one was right up to par. There was no resting on laurels!Metrodog is invaluable for dog-owning city dwellers, but it's equally useful for dog owners in any location. The book begins with how to find the right dog, and ends with how to say good-bye to a faithful old friend. In between it covers housebreaking, food, manners, training, socialization, exercise, and health care, with hundreds of useful details discussed with the authors' customary savvy and humor. For readers who are interested in learning how to successfully and happily share their lives with a dog, this is the book to read.

Not just for the city dog...

...this book is an excellent source for any dog owner. With their usual entertaining writing style, Brian Kilcommons and Sarah Wilson guide one through choosing a dog, housebreaking and training it. Their experience in dog training is extensive and it shows throughout the advice and tips in the book. We live in the suburbs, but have found this book tremendously helpful as we work our German Shepherd puppy towards being a therapy dog! ...

My country dog now does fine in the City!!

Thanks to this wonderful informative book, my dog and I have made a safe and happy transition from country woods to city streets without a problem. I loved the advice on elevator manners, taking taxis with your dog, behavior in stores and park, and the "distance down."Not only is this book filled with helpful advice for raising a dog in the city, it is chock full of wonderful training advice for every dog everywhere. I highly recommend it.Thank you Sarah and Brian, for this wonderful book, and thank you for your wonderful message board at greatpets.com

Metro Dog

As a professional trainer living near Seattle I can't tell you what a gift this book is! And with rural areas becoming more crowded and "city" like it can be for every dog or anyone like me that travel with their dog. I live in the country, but my dogs are "city savvy" and so can all dogs with the help of this book.I am also a therapy dog specialist and I volunteer with my dogs at hospitals and a new program called Reading With Rover at the King County Library in Bothell Washington. Anyone wanting to do therapy dog work should get Metro Dog as it's great advice for any dog and for those who want to volunteer with their dog in therapy work this book will get you and your dog going in the right direction.The format of the book is easy, the wording is totally practical and any novice dog owner will appreciate this book and they should keep it by their nightstand. As with Kilcommons and Wilson?s other books it's flare for humor and common sense advice is much appreciated. As anyone with a dog knows you have to have a sense of humor and the right attidude and this book will help you find it!I'm only sorry I can rate this book with five stars as it deserves a 10!