Product Description

An engaging, photo-filled dog-owner?s guide that will help you deepen the bond between you and your best friend.

Written in a friendly, accessible style, and full of appealing color photos, The Dog Owner?s Handbook offers plenty of expert advice on training and caring for your canine. Whether you want advice on selecting a dog, need a rundown on training techniques or health care, or plan to lavish your pet with toys and treats, here?s everything you need to know. Learn the best way to introduce a puppy to its new home; discover how to discourage attention-seeking behavior, like barking or jumping; find out how much and what type of exercise you should give your dog; and much, much more. Annette Conn is a professional dog behavior consultant and training instructor, with more than 25 years? experience. She also trains and handles dogs for television.

About the Author

Annette Conn is a professional dog behaviour consultant and trainer, who regularly teaches at several dog-training clubs and has lectured on dog behaviour, assessment and training throughout the UK. She lives in London.

Product Description
An Owner’s Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet is the series to turn to when you want a basic reference that’s reliable, up-to-date, and complete. These guides feature:

• Expert authors, plus renowned guest contributors on specialized topics
• Full-color photos throughout
• Basic information on the breed, species, or topic
• Complete coverage of care, health, grooming, training, and more
• Tips and techniques to make life with a pet more rewarding

From the Back Cover

At last, a book for puppy owners that emphasizes total care, training and companionship!

Puppy Care & Training includes chapters on what your new puppy needs to get settled in your home; feeding and exercising your puppy; housetraining; what to expect from your puppy; health care; and much more.

Puppy Care & Training is full of easy-to-reference sidebars for quick tips on caring for your puppy’s needs. The author knows how special puppyhood is, how quickly it passes, and what an important time it is in your relationship with your dog. Her advice will help inexperienced and expert puppy owners alike to fully enjoy their pets.

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Product Description
An Owner’s Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet is the series to turn to when you want a basic reference that’s reliable, up-to-date, and complete. These guides feature:

• Expert authors, plus renowned guest contributors on specialized topics
• Full-color photos throughout
• Basic information on the breed, species, or topic
• Complete coverage of care, health, grooming, training, and more
• Tips and techniques to make life with a pet more rewarding

From the Back Cover

At last, a book about your pet that emphasizes total care, training and companionship! You’ll not only learn about the specie-specific traits of your special pet, you’ll also learn what the world’s like from your pet’s perspective; how to feed, groom and keep your pet healthy; and how to enjoy your pet through training and activities you can do together. The Boxer is written by a breed expert and includes a special chapter on training by Dr. Ian Dunbar, internationally renowned animal behaviorist, and chapters on getting active with your dog by long-time Dog Fancy magazine columnist Bardi McLennan. Best of all, the book is filled with info-packed sidebars and fun facts to make caring for your pet easy and enjoyable.

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Humans become pack leaders, and this book shows owners how to assert their position to the puppy. Addresses training puppies in proper behavior and preventing problems such as nipping, barking, or jumping on people. Offers solutions to fix problems.

Product Description

An engaging, photo-filled dog-owner?s guide that will help you deepen the bond between you and your best friend.

Written in a friendly, accessible style, and full of appealing color photos, The Dog Owner?s Handbook offers plenty of expert advice on training and caring for your canine. Whether you want advice on selecting a dog, need a rundown on training techniques or health care, or plan to lavish your pet with toys and treats, here?s everything you need to know. Learn the best way to introduce a puppy to its new home; discover how to discourage attention-seeking behavior, like barking or jumping; find out how much and what type of exercise you should give your dog; and much, much more. Annette Conn is a professional dog behavior consultant and training instructor, with more than 25 years? experience. She also trains and handles dogs for television.

About the Author

Annette Conn is a professional dog behaviour consultant and trainer, who regularly teaches at several dog-training clubs and has lectured on dog behaviour, assessment and training throughout the UK. She lives in London.

Product Description

The Dog Owner’s Guides are written by experts with years of experience training and working with the most popular breeds. This series is for dog owners and anyone considering the purchase of a purebred dog. Each title covers the specifics of the individual breed: - Personality and history - Choosing a puppy - Obedience training and exercise - Grooming and diet - Health concerns and critical hereditary conditions - Special requirements

Professional breeders and trainers provide proven and valuable advice with simple tips to ease a puppy’s transition to its new home, games to play with dogs as they develop, and how to spot health problems.

Other titles in the series include: - Puppy Care and Training: ensuring a happy life right from the start - Rottweiler: loyal protector - Labrador Retriever: the friendly and funloving working dog - Border Collie: the active, independent dog - German Shepherd: famous for its intelligence and loyalty - Jack Russell Terrier: the most popular terrier - Golden Retriever: the gentle outgoing family companion

The titles in the Dog Owner’s Guides series are just right for dog owners as they choose the ideal breed for their family and lifestyle.

About the Author

Andrew Brace breeds and exhibits pedigree dogs and is an internationally known judge.

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Easy-to-read information on choosing raising training and maintaining good health

Product Description
An Owner’s Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet is the series to turn to when you want a basic reference that’s reliable, up-to-date, and complete. These guides feature:

• Expert authors, plus renowned guest contributors on specialized topics
• Full-color photos throughout
• Basic information on the breed, species, or topic
• Complete coverage of care, health, grooming, training, and more
• Tips and techniques to make life with a pet more rewarding

From the Back Cover

At last, a book about your pet that emphasizes total care, training and companionship! You’ll not only learn about the specie-specific traits of your special pet, you’ll also learn what the world’s like from your pet’s perspective; how to feed, groom and keep your pet healthy; and how to enjoy your pet through training and activities you can do together. The Boxer is written by a breed expert and includes a special chapter on training by Dr. Ian Dunbar, internationally renowned animal behaviorist, and chapters on getting active with your dog by long-time Dog Fancy magazine columnist Bardi McLennan. Best of all, the book is filled with info-packed sidebars and fun facts to make caring for your pet easy and enjoyable.

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Amazon.com Review

The Monks of New Skete share their invaluable training techniques and philosophy in their bestselling book, How to Be Your Dog’s Best Friend. First and foremost, the Monks–who themselves breed and raise German shepherds in Upstate New York–emphasize that “understanding is the key to communication, compassion, and communion” with your dog. Outlined in seven highly readable and informative chapters, the training principles offer a better knowledge of your pet’s psyche and personality–ultimately deepening the bond between human and animal. Striving to educate and sensitize new and potential owners to dog kind, the book explores different breeds and temperaments, and assesses the best places from which to obtain a dog. Thanks to a succession of neatly ordered chapters and subsections on everything from crates and leash training to dog treats and massage, training is made accessible and even fun. The Monks lay particular emphasis on the importance of training with “spirit, humor, and most of all, physical and verbal praise!” Whether you’re a new owner or an old-timer, How to Be Your Dog’s Best Friend is one of the best training guides available, written with compassion, empathy, and humor. –Naomi Gesinger

From Publishers Weekly

The Monks of New Skete have been raising and training dogs for over 30 years at their Cambridge, New York, monastery, and this volume-updated from the 1978 version-offers solid insights on dog training, behavior, grooming, feeding and a host of other topics. Whether discussing country, city or suburban dogs, the monks dispense good advice on humane care, such as admonishing owners to avoid “canine incarceration,” i.e., leaving a dog confined alone for long periods of time. While the book does contain many useful, tried-and-true techniques for obedience-stay, heel, down-stay, recall and the like-its unique value lies in the monks’ insights and thoughts about the human-canine bond. Concepts such as discipline and praise are more than merely a means to an end, the monks maintain: they are extensions of a caring attitude and real communication with a canine companion. Without devolving into New Age psychobabble, the monks make philosophical and spiritual observations that no dog lover could resist, and which just might make a convert of the uninitiated. 87 b&w photos.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
–This text refers to the

Hardcover
edition.

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