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How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend: The Classic Manual for Dog Owners
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How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend: The Classic Manual for Dog Owners Hardcover - 2002

by Monks of New Skete

Extensively revised and updated--featuring a fresh new design and photographs throughout--this new edition preserves the best components of the original classic and expands the book to cover new trends in training, new equipment (i.e. "invisible fences"), new reflections on the philosophical aspects of the dog/human relationship, and much more. Available in September 2002.


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For more than a quarter century, How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend has been the standard against which all other dog-training books have been measured. This expanded edition preserves the best features of the original classic while bringing the book fully up-to-date. The result: the ultimate training manual for a new generation of dog owners--and, of course, for their canine best friends. The Monks of New Skete have achieved international renown as breeders of German shepherds and as outstanding trainers of dogs of all breeds. Their unique approach to canine training, developed and refined over four decades, is based on the philosophy that "understanding is the key to communication, compassion, and communion" with your dog. How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend covers virtually every aspect of living with and caring for your dog, including:

  • Selecting a dog (what breed? male? female? puppy or older dog?) to fit your lifestyle
  • Where to get--and where not to get--a dog
  • Reading a pedigree
  • Training your dog or puppy--when, where, and how
  • The proper use of praise and discipline
  • Feeding, grooming, and ensuring your dog's physical fitness
  • Recognizing and correcting canine behavioral problems
  • The particular challenges of raising a dog where you live - in the city, country, or suburb
  • The proper techniques for complete care of your pet at every stage of his or her life
In its scope, its clarity, and its authority, How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend remains unrivaled as a basic training guide for dog owners. Like no other book, this guide can help you understand and appreciate your dog's nature as well as his or her distinct personality--and in so doing, it can significantly enrich the life you share with your dog.

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  • Title How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend: The Classic Manual for Dog Owners
  • Author Monks of New Skete
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Rev Upd
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little Brown and Company, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Date 2002-09-23
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780316610001 / 0316610003
  • Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.62 x 6.32 x 1.24 in (24.43 x 16.05 x 3.15 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Dogs - Training
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002102894
  • Dewey Decimal Code 636.708

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  • Library Journal, 02/15/2002, Page 0
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 02/15/2002, Page 124
  • People Weekly, 12/08/2014, Page 80
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/01/2002, Page 0
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