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Before and After Getting Your Puppy: The Positive Approach to Raising a Happy, Healthy, and Well-Behaved Dog
Before and After Getting Your Puppy: The Positive Approach to Raising a Happy, Healthy, and Well-Behaved Dog
Before and After Getting Your Puppy: The Positive Approach to Raising a Happy, Healthy, and Well-Behaved Dog
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Before and After Getting Your Puppy: The Positive Approach to Raising a Happy, Healthy, and Well-Behaved Dog

Written by Ian Dunbar

Narrated by Michael Page

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Before After Getting Your Puppy is a simple, practical guide for anyone bringing a new puppy into the family. In clear steps, with easy-to-follow training deadlines, Dr. Ian Dunbar, who pioneered puppy classes and a loving style of dog training in the 1970s, presents a structured yet playful and humorous plan for raising a wonderful dog. The guide is based on six developmental deadlines:

completing owner education and preparation

assessing a puppy's prior socialization and education

teaching errorless house-training and chewtoy-training

completing a socialization program of meeting strange dogs and people

learning bite inhibition

a continuing program of ongoing training


In the first half of the book, Dr. Dunbar focuses on what the owner needs to know to select a great puppy. In the second half, he presents the crucial lessons the puppy must be taught during its impressionable early development. Over time, Dr. Dunbar's kind, positive program has been proven the most effective.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 12, 2016
ISBN9781515978558
Author

Ian Dunbar

Dr. Ian Dunbar is a veterinarian, animal behaviorist, and dog trainer. He has given over 750 full-day seminars and workshops for dog trainers and veterinarians around the world. A columnist, the star of the British television show Dogs With Dunbar, and author, he has written numerous books and hosted a dozen videos about puppy/dog behavior and training. He received his veterinary degree and a Special Honors degree in Physiology & Biochemistry from the Royal Veterinary College (London University) and a doctorate in animal behavior from the University of California in Berkeley. He is the founder of many dog-training organizations, including the Center for Applied Animal Behavior; the Association of Pet Dog Trainers, the largest and most influential worldwide association of professional dog trainers; and Sirius Puppy Training, the leading provider of puppy classes in the San Francisco Bay Area. He lives in Berkeley, CA.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Very informative. Great book to read before bringing your puppy home
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    I really enjoyed it even if it was a bit dramatic sometimes with “If you don’t do this your dog will end up on the streets and killed”
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    By far the best book in raising a puppy. It is written with the average pet dog owner in mind. You don’t need to be a dog professional to follow his techniques. Every dog owner should have read or listened to this book .
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    There is a reason why this is one of the Classics of Dog Training/Dog Behavioral books: Dr. Dunbar imparts essential advice and more importantly: understanding, that you can use to raise a delightful dog to have a happy life together with. One that has excellent habits and behavior. This is all about starting with the clean slate of a puppy, though. His emphasis is on impressing healthy behavioral patterns during their crucial developmental window.