The Perfect Puppy

by Gwen Bailey and gwen-bailey

Book Overview

Reader's Digest best-selling dog book-for over 11 years-is now fully revised and updated All of the original edition's positive methods are revisited to create a harmonious relationship based on love... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895778394
• ISBN13: 9780895778390
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A lifeline for any first-time puppy owner

Great advice on how to deal with two puppies or raising a puppy when you already have a dog. Has step-by-step photos on how to teach those crucial skills like loose-leash-walking, and coming when called, potty training, crate training. Bases training on positive reinforcement so you can begin training your dog months before traditional methods would be appropriate. i also recomment any clicker training book you can get your hands on.

VERY USEFUL TOOL

I found this book extremely helpful after just a few minutes of reading (learning that some of my methods were wrong and improving the ones that were right). The author's experience with puppies is clear once you implement some of their techniques and receive positive results.The book gives you simple training ideas (such as using a pen in combination with a create). It also helps you get inside the head of your puppy (Alfa role's etc.). Understanding your puppy's reasons for their behavior makes training fun (as I'm sure you know by now).I'm giving this book a five star rating due to its simplicity and the results I received. I would recommend to anyone with a puppy or planing on a puppy to also buy more than one book and watch animal planet for other helpful tips (I also found the videos by Matthew Margolis informative and entertaining).

The best puppy book available

I am a professional dog trainer, and this is the puppy book that I reccommend to my clients as well as on my website. Clearly written, positive instructions guide you through the process of raising the perfect puppy.

Excellent and informative

Excellent book. Very helpful and informative. Gets to the point about what you should and should not do. Clear directions (with explanations why) for raising a well behaved happy puppy.

My first choice for all new puppy parents

Thank you Gwen Bailey! I am a dog trainer and a volunteer at the local shelter and I am forever being asked for ONE book on puppy training - and now I've found it. This book has a wealth of information including stages of maturity and what to expect, prevention of the most common problems, and best of all a Positive based training method. These are the methods I have been using in teaching my students and they are a real joy - and they work. A must-have book for puppy owners and trainers.