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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

By: Ian Dunbar
Narrated by: Michael Page
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Before and 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 chew-toy 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.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2004 Dr. Ian Dunbar (P)2016 Tantor Dogs Pets & Animal Care Witty Dog Training
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A must for all new puppy owners. Be sure you read it before you get a pup.

A must

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This was an absolutely fantastic book that has made me feel quite able to raise my Ridgeback puppy the right way!

Awesome book!!

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Patronising but spot on when it comes to training yr dog. No nonsense and very helpful.

Excellent

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felt patronising as a listener. unsure whether it was meant to be funny but it didnt come through.

the text itself didnt work for me and my puppy. good as a reference but not for everyone

patronisingly read making it hard to learn

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