Dog Care Information

BEFORE You Get Your Puppy/Shelter dog

Dr. Ian Dunbar's book "Before You Get Your Puppy" is a must-read for anyone thinking about getting a puppy or re-socializing/retraining an adult. It is so important that owners are prepared before they adopt their pup that the authors are making the entire book available here for free download.

Simply click on the link below (under Attachments) and the file should begin downloading.

This book is available as a PDF file. You will need Acrobat Reader to open it.

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BEFORE You Get Your Puppy.pdf	2.68 MB

AFTER You Get Your Puppy/Shelter dog

Dr. Ian Dunbar's AFTER You Get Your Puppy should be required reading for anyone who is thinking of raising a puppy or re-socializing/retraining an adult. That's why the authors are offering it here for a limited time as a free download.

Most shelter dogs were once perfectly normal puppies exhibiting typical, though often undesirable, puppy behaviour.

House soiling, nipping, growling, resource guarding, destructive chewing, excessive barking, hyperactivity, jumping- up, leash-pulling and general unruliness are reported as primary reasons why people surrender their dogs to shelters or let them stray (to be captured and taken to shelters).

The presence of these same behaviors is also a major reason why people do not want to adopt shelter dogs. Yet these typical puppy behaviors are so easy to channel or eliminate with the right tools and information.

AFTER You Get Your Puppy covers the last three developmental deadlines that your puppy needs to meet before he is six months old. Skills that will keep dogs out of shelters and in their original homes:

The most urgent priority — Socializing Your Puppy to People
The most important priority — Teaching Bite Inhibition
The most enjoyable priority — Continuing Socialization in The World at Large

Simply click on the link below (under Attachments) and the file should begin downloading.

This book is available as a PDF file. You will need Acrobat Reader to open it.

Attachment	Size
AFTER You Get Your Puppy.pdf	4.69 MB