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Features a new 8-page color section



The bestselling guide to making the most of puppy's first year

Bringing home a puppy? This fun, friendly guide to puppyhood prepares you for this tough but terrific time. From the basics -- housebreaking, feeding, training -- to the latest on doggie day care, traveling with a puppy, and the new designer breeds, you get everything you need to help your puppy grow up to be a healthy, playful, well-mannered dog.

Discover how to
* Choose the perfect puppy for you
* Socialize your puppy
* Stimulate your puppy's growing mind
* Use the latest training tools
* Keep peace between kids and puppies

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31479 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-18
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 392 pages

From the Back Cover
Features a new 8-page color section

The bestselling guide to making the most of puppy's first year

Bringing home a puppy? This fun, friendly guide to puppyhood prepares you for this tough but terrific time. From the basics — housebreaking, feeding, training — to the latest on doggie day care, traveling with a puppy, and the new designer breeds, you get everything you need to help your puppy grow up to be a healthy, playful, well-mannered dog.

Discover how to

• Choose the perfect puppy for you
• Socialize your puppy
• Stimulate your puppy's growing mind
• Use the latest training tools
• Keep peace between kids and puppies

About the Author
Sarah Hodgson has been a trainer of dogs and their people for over 20 years. She has had many famous clients, including TV personality Katie Couric, actors/actresses Richard Gere, Glenn Close, Chazz Palminteri, Chevy Chase, and Lucie Arnez, business moguls George Soros, Tommy Hilfiger, Tommy Mottola, and Michael Fuchs, and sports greats Bobby Valentine and Alan Houston.
Sarah is the author of eight dog training books, including Teach Yourself Visually, Dog Training; Dog Tricks For Dummies; DogPerfect; and PuppyPerfect. Soon to be released: Miss Sarah’s Book of Etiquette for Dogs.

Customer Reviews

Thank you Sarah Hodgson!
I am a first-time dog owner, having always had cats which required no training. I was getting very frustrated with my puppy and my three-year-old, especially when my puppy turned 5 months and started to really jump and nip. This book was informative and gave me lots of good tips on dog-rearing and helping the dog to get along with my kids. Yes, it is broad, but it is a great start and good for people, like me, who just want to do some basic training. If you want to do more advanced training, then you would probably want to get another book later on.

I would definitely recommend this book to first-time puppy parents.

A solid reference for positive reinforcement training
After getting a puppy in December, I picked up this book, hoping it would provide me with information on just what I needed to do to have a happy, healthy, well-trained dog. Happily, it does. Covering just about every aspect of dealing with a puppy, I've already started using some of the information in the book. The index is well organized as well, making it easy to look up information as necessary.

Now, if only the puppy were as user friendly! *grin*

Don't Even Bother...
Okay, the book did have some pretty cool pointers and techniques. But the bottom line is...the lady tells you to ignore your puppy! Throughout the whole book all she talks about is ignore your puppy if he does this, ignore your puppy if he does that... C'mon! They need to feel some love too! It didn't go into detail about a single aspect of puppy training...well for the exeption of ignoring the pup that is! Basically, I feel like it was just a super long summary of raising an ignored puppy. Kind of sad actually...