Product Description

Combining two popular titles in one value-priced edition, Before and After Getting Your Puppy is a simple, practical guide for anyone bringing a new puppy into the home. In clear steps, with helpful photos and 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 chewtoy-training, completing a socialization program of meeting strange dogs and people, learning bite inhibition, and continuing a 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 - using a kind, positive approach that, over time, has been proven the most effective.

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7080 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

From Publishers Weekly
The star of the British television show Dogs with Dunbar has been teaching pet owners to train their dogs humanely and thoroughly for over 30 years. In this compassionate and honest volume, the veterinarian shares his definitive opinions about the way dogs should be trained. This is a great tool that anyone who wants to get a dog should peruse before they bring their pup home because, as the author points out, owning a dog is a big responsibility, and "millions of dogs are euthanized each year simply because their owners did not know how to housetrain or chewtoy-train them." Dunbar includes information that prospective dog owners should know before they select a puppy, and he also explains how to meet his proscribed series of important Developmental Deadlines (two of which come up even before the dog reaches its new home!). In addition to a step-by-step guide to every stage of puppyhood, the book includes practical services, such as a pre-puppy shopping list and lists of the best dog training books and videos.
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Review
this edition belongs... alongside such classics as Dog Training in 10 Minutes and The Power of Positive Dog Training. -- Library Journal, Spring 2004

About the Author
Dr. Ian Dunbar is a veterinarian, animal behaviorist, and dog trainer. He has given over 750 full-day seminars and workshops for dog trainers and veterinarians around the world. A columnist, the star of the British television show Dogs With Dunbar, and author, he has written numerous books and hosted a dozen videos about puppy/dog behavior and training. He received his veterinary degree and a Special Honors degree in Physiology & Biochemistry from the Royal Veterinary College (London University) and a doctorate in animal behavior from the University of California in Berkeley. He is the founder of many dog-training organizations, including the Center for Applied Animal Behavior; the Association of Pet Dog Trainers, the largest and most influential worldwide association of professional dog trainers; and Sirius Puppy Training, the leading provider of puppy classes in the San Francisco Bay Area. He lives in Berkeley, CA.

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Customer Reviews

Best Method for Housetraining
I've read my list of dog-training books before brining home our puppy, and after she arrived, Ian Dunbar's Before&After is the absolute bible for housetraining. I've learned not to stray from the guidelines, and provide the routine and rules that Dunbar suggests, and our puppy needs.

Our maltese puppy understood "Potty" from day 3, and by the end of the first week, would do her business on command, even the least bit (a drop when she didn't need to) when we went out regularly.

Definitely a must-read, must-follow.

Essential Reading For All New Puppy Owners
Before and After Getting Your Puppy is a fantastic read. If only all new puppy owners could just get a hold of this book, read it and implement the strategies. I'm sure this would drastically reduce the amount of dog bites, dumped puppies and abused dogs - the information is that good.

Dr, Ian Dunbar is the leading dog training/care authority in the world - wouldn't it be great if all dog breeders could hand this book out to new owners every time they sold a puppy?

Highly recommended for any dog owner - whether you have a new puppy or even an older dog.

Excellent
This a great book and should be required reading for all new dog owners. Dr. Dunbar has a proven track record and the science to back up the methods he uses. Ps. Also good for parents with small children. Many of the same principles apply.