Puppy Love

By Liz Palika and Sheri Wachtstetter

Book Overview

Combining informative text with beautiful full-color photographs, this book covers everything you need to know about caring for puppies from birth to age six months. Busy puppy parents will get fast and authoritative advice on:

Puppy-proofing your home and yard

What age to bring home a puppy

Housetraining

The first trip to the vet

Crate training

Feeding

Socialization

And much more

Whether you're a proud puppy parent or just love to admire these adorable bundles of joy, this is a charming book you'll turn to again and again.

A Certified Pet Dog Trainer and Certified Animal Behavior Consultant, Liz Palika has written more than fifty books. She has received two prestigious Maxwell Awards from the Dog Writers' Association of America. Her work has been published in Newsweek, Dog World, Dog Fancy, the AKC Gazette, and other magazines

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470393173
• ISBN13: 9780470393178
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Howell Books
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.2" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Excellent; Thorough, Step by Step guide

I got a copy of Puppy Love before getting a puppy, and now I have a long list of things to remember and a guide to raising a great dog. A good way to prevent playful puppies from turning into untrained terrors (should you actually read it and follow the great advice)

A MUST-HAVE BOOK FOR DOG LOVERS!!

If you love dogs, you'll love this book. Even if you don't have a puppy and aren't thinking about getting one, this book is one you'll open time and time again. The fantastic photos show puppies "being puppies" and make you want to reach into the pages and pet and play with these adorable little dogs. I have this book on my coffee table and it is so fun to hear family and friends, young and old, "ooh" and "ahh" over it and pick their favorites. The information is clear and easy to read and will be an excellent resource for me when I get my new puppy!

Melts your heart!

Puppy Love will melt your heart!!! Not only is it a wonderful, informative, easy read, the photos are so special. Even after all the puppies I've raised, this book is in my hands daily while I find the help I need for the latest addition to our family! I've taken countless classes with Liz and through the years her training has always been kind, consistent and it works! This book is no different. And if you don't have a puppy but just love them, you NEED this book! The photos are marvelous!! Again, Liz's writing and Sheri's photos make this a must have!

Puppy Love

I thought the book provided very useful information on raising a puppy. It had many colorful illustrations with a variety of different breeds. It would be an excellent book for a first time puppy parent. I enjoyed the book even though I have raised many puppies and have read a variety of books on pet parenting.

Puppy Love-LOVE it!

BRAVO to Liz, Sheri, and Wiley Publishers! As a dog writer, I knew that any new book by Liz Palika would be well written, but dog books are dog books and after you look at hundreds of them, most start to look alike. Puppy Love stands alone. The material covered is basically the same as what is covered in other puppy books. But this book is very different. Each topic from teaching basic skills to housetraining and handling behavior problems is covered on one page with a color photo of a puppy on the opposite page. Liz has summarized for busy puppy owners what they need to know about each topic on one page. She has left out all of the typical blah, blah, blah and provided only the critical information. For teaching new skill, a very simple task analysis is provided. The photo editor, Sheri Wachtstetter, is credited on the book's cover. This is something one rarely sees, but this photo editor's work was a key part of this book. In many dog books, every few pages, there is a great photo. In full color, the photos appearing on every other page of Puppy Love are all GREAT. There are coffee table books with wonderful photos and no written information, and there are books with written information that when reading, you wish there were more photos. This book manages to give you both content and photos. As a dog trainer, I love the approach in this book where less is more. If you want to read about theory, this is not the book for you. If you want a book that is like a cookbook that tells you exactly what to do, Puppy Love is for you and your puppy. If you're a writer, you should buy Puppy Love because it is cutting edge and unlike anything else that has been done before. This book is the exemplar for the writer's saying, "I would have written less if I had more time." Puppy Love is bold and fresh and it cuts to the chase in a hurry. The photos are beautiful and the content is behaviorally correct. Mary R. Burch, PhD