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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.

Download the accompanying reference guide.©2004 Dr. Ian Dunbar (P)2016 Tantor Pets & Animal Care Witty
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I loved this book because it is writing with knowledge and heart.
The writer has a lot of love and respect for dogs, and he knows what he is talking about. I think that is wonderful.

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Something that stood out that I haven’t seen in other books are the things to do to prepare your dog to be handled at the vet, when circumstances change in the future (such as when you raise your dogs without young children, and then grandchildren come into the mix) and a lot of thinking down the road for the future information.

Dog husbandry

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Wonderful read, I highly recommend this book for anyone looking to get a puppy. Very educational book

Before and after getting your puppy. Very educational and inspiring information

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This book was a good dog training resource for our husky puppy! It's easy to follow, and has a positive training focus.

good resource

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I have searched far and wide for someone/information that not only makes sense to me, but resonates with me.

I think that Dr Ian Dunbar’s training methods and techniques are the way of the future.

I would recommend this book to any pet owner who wants to be the best pet parent they can. This book gave me a lot of confidence on how to approach my dog, and dogs to come, in terms of their training and integration of our lifestyles.

Fantastically Informative

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loved it! full of great advice! I now know what is important to do with my pup.

great book for people wanting to get a pup.

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Very good book with lots of useful tips. The main points are repeated many times, and shown with funny examples. Very useful and a very nice introduction to new owners or those who want a better behaved doggy next time!
All advises are very specific and well explained.
Liked the book a lot!

Lovely introduction to puppies!

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Magnífico. muy útil especialmente si se le antes de que el cachorro cumplan 5 meses.

un magnífico libro

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I saw this book on a list of some of the best books to read for owning a dog. Although I haven’t read the other books that the list recommended I have read enough books in general to know a good book from a bad one and this book is truly outstanding.

Awesome book!

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I read a lot of books to understand puppies this one is simple and fun
Thank you

Fantastic book

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