Metrodog: The Essential Guide to Raising Your Dog in the City (Paperback)
Product Description
They wag their tails, slobber, and romp just as enthusiastically as their suburban and country cousins, but city dogs are a breed apart. They live in high-rises, trot along bustling sidewalks, and play in crowded dog runs, so good manners with both canines and humans is imperative. In this thorough guide, Brian Kilcommons and Sarah Wilson tell urban dog owners how to do everything from housetraining a puppy-when the sidewalk is 40 floors away and she has to go now-to preventing Rover from barking in a thin-walled studio apartment. Loaded with an arsenal of proven training tips, METRODOG is the book every dog owner in every metropolis must have-because bringing up a dog in the city should be a walk in the park!
About the Author
Brian Kilcommons and Sarah Wilson live in Gardiner, New York.
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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.
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Not a lot of detailed information
I didn’t find this book to be very useful at all. It was basically a short review of general dog care focussed on city living.
Brian Kilcommons and Sarah Wilson, of course! OK, well, they didn’t invent the idea of dogs living happily in urban areas, but they can show you how to raise your pup into a confident, social, well-exercised and happy pet in a teeming Metropolis. They do it by drawing on a combined thirty years of experience training dogs and their people. Much like their previous all-around dog-training book “Good Owners, Great Dogs,” “Metrodog” offers tons of how-to know-how from dog trainers who (surprise!) can actually write! The book is a helpful compendium of training tips, photographs and anecdotal information. From solid content on how to select a dog for the city to things to teach it and simple instructions for doing them, this book is unlike most any you will have probably read about dog training. The authors focus on city life for dogs, and their positive, fun approach to training make it a must for city-dwelling canine-lovers. How on earth do you housetrain a dog when you live on the 35th floor? How hard is it to exercise a dog on busy sidewalks? What if I need to hail a cab (or take the subway) and I have a dog with me? These questions and more are concretely answered with several dashes of Sarah and Brian’s trademark humor thrown in. They also cover selecting a trainer, destructive behaviors, the older dog, dealing with dog parks, dealing with different dog temperaments, and proofing your city canine to all manner of things you and he will encounter on the street. Even folks who live in suburbia will find much of interest here, for the behaviors covered are good for ALL dogs to know, even if you never plan on living on the 35th floor of anywhere. Just like on their website called GreatPets, Brian and Sarah share the best of their knowledge with us because they love dogs and what dogs bring to our lives. I highly recommend “Metrodog.”
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Highly Recommended
Few people writing about dogs today have as much hands-on experience as this team. This is the book that I recommend to those who adopt dogs from me.
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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,…
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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.
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Excellent Resource!
Metrodog is an excellent resource for those living in the city who would love to include a dog in their life.
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The ultimate guide on training/living with your dog!
This is, by far, the best book I’ve ever read on dog training and behavior. I bought this book in anticipation of a dog that I am about to acquire.
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The Best book Brian and Sara have ever written
Title says all. This as information on training, and they have updated their meathods (from Good Owners, Great Dogs) and they are more open and flexable about tactics to train any…
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MetroDog is GREAT for any Dog !!!!!!
I had been anticipating this book for some time - it’s authors Brian Kilcommons and Sarah Wilson have a number of wonderful pet resource books to choose from.
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it’s a dog’s life in the city!
In this thorough guide, Brian Kilcommons & Sarah Wilson tell & show us in a profusion of photographs & readable language, how to do everything from housetraining a…
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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…