Gwen Bailey's bestselling puppy care guide has helped hundreds of thousands of owners throughout the world raise a problem-free dog. Now, updated with the latest findings in canine behaviour and a completely new user-friendly design, this revised edition will teach you how to raise a problem-free dog. From housetraining to playing games, it will show you how to teach your dog good manners and build his confidence with the world around him. There are step-by-step training and socialization plans as well as a guide to understanding and preventing biting, chewing and other problems. If you want your puppy to develop into a happy, well-behaved and friendly adult dog, you cannot afford to be without this book.
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The Perfect Puppy is for puppy owners, or would-be owners, who want to know how to bring their puppy up to be a happy, well-behaved and friendly adult dog. Anti-social behaviour in dogs is often blamed on owners, but many are not irresponsible or uncaring, they simply have insufficient knowledge. This book provides that knowledge.
Containing the most up-to-date bahavioural information, the emphasis of this fascinating book is on prevention rather than cure. Follow Gwen Bailey's advice and you should have no trouble with problems such as chewed shoes, pulling on the lead and aggression when your dog is fully grown.
Full-colour photographs illustrate subjects such as socialisation, house-training, preventing biting and aggression, training and many more. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
Gwen Bailey was the Head of Animal Behaviour for The Blue Cross, one of Britain's foremost animal welfare charities, for many years and also spent 15 years as Chairman of The Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors. As well as lecturing at national and international conferences, Gwen also runs training courses for staff at animal charities around the world and is the owner of The Puppy School, establishing a network of professional, well-trained tutors across the UK. She is the author of several dog-training titles including Puppy School, What is my Dog Thinking?, The Rescue Dog and Choosing the Right Dog for You, all published by Hamlyn.
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178 of 179 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is essential reading for anyone about to buy or having just bought a new puppy.
There is nothing worse than being confronted by a book full of jargon but this book is a joy to read. It is easy to pick up and put down when you have a spare five minutes and the information is written is very clear and easy to understand steps.
Every issue of rearing a puppy is covered, including socialization, house training, playing games, dealing with anti-social behaviour etc. Its common sense approach fills you with confidence and helps you to understand the priorities in puppy training.
59 of 59 people found the following review helpful
By Anirog
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When I got my first puppy, I'd carry this book with me everywhere, it answered all the questions I had about my puppies behaviour and taught me in easy to understand terms how to and most importantly what not to do. It's so easy to get it wrong when training dogs, this is why so many dogs are given away after 6 months because they have not been trained properly, if you follow the basic instructions in this book it will make your dog owning life & your puppies life so much easier.
162 of 164 people found the following review helpful
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When we bought our puppy we bought a whole heap of reference books, most of which were rather dull and difficult to follow. This is a very clear book, very easy to understand and great to have at hand at all times. It clearly explains what is right and wrong -a great book to keep on hands for those panic moments and just to keep by the bed for reassurance. We thought we knew a lot about dog training but alot of it is old wives tales, this really makes things as unstressful as possible for both owner and puppy.
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not so useful
I didn't learn anything I didn't knew. If you are a newbie with puppies, then maybe it's a good introduction. Read more
Published 20 days ago by plofani9821
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Ideal for Novice Puppy Owner
Bought this for my Kindle. Saved a lot of cash and it arrived in seconds. Full colour photos when using my tablet
Published 22 days ago by bigspender
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A must buy
Invaluable! Worth every penny and more, I would highly recommend this book to anyone buying a new puppy, very easy to follow.
Published 1 month ago by Roslyn Poots
4.0 out of 5 stars
Useful
it is useful as a starting point but there is lots of advice out there and the book is just handier as a refrence point than switching on the laptop
Published 1 month ago by Nosamda
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Perfect Puppy
This is an excellent book, full of great advice and tips without being patronizing I have learn and put into practice a lot of things from this book.
Published 1 month ago by A. Lovell
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Fantastic!
Every dog owner or prospective dog owner should read this book! many puppy guides out there are either all over the place, or make money out of scare mongering you. Read more
Published 1 month ago by R. Shepherd
3.0 out of 5 stars
Okay
It's much the same as other puppy books; got some useful information from the book and lovely photographs; will sell it now
Published 1 month ago by Fran Blusher
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Buy this book before you get the puppy
This book is full of really good advice about training, behaviour and just about everything you could think of about puppies. Read more
Published 1 month ago by lulu53
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Great help
I really liked this book. I read in on Kindle and finished it in two sittings. Really helpful tips and a book I will go back to, I feel a bit more prepared for when my pup arrives... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Hattie
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great book
seems to cover most things in a simple and easy way - recommend it for new owners as a great manual for what to do
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