Before and After Getting Your Puppy, Ian Dunbar
Before and After Getting Your Puppy, Ian Dunbar
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Before and After Getting Your Puppy
The Positive Approach to Raising a Happy, Healthy, and Well-Behaved Dog

Author: Ian Dunbar

Narrator: Michael Page

Unabridged: 4 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/12/2016

Categories: Nonfiction, Pets

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Before & After Getting Your Puppy is a simple, practical guide for anyone bringing a new puppy into the family. In clear steps, with 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

a continuing 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. Over time, Dr. Dunbar's kind, positive program has been proven the most effective.

About Ian Dunbar

Dr. Ian Dunbar is a veterinarian, animal behaviorist, and writer. He received his veterinary degree and a special honors degree in physiology and biochemistry from the Royal Veterinary College (London University) and a doctorate in animal behavior from the Psychology Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where he spent ten years researching olfactory communication, the development of hierarchical social behavior, and aggression in domestic dogs.

Dr. Dunbar is a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, the International Society for Applied Ethology, the American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior, the California Veterinary Medical Association, the Sierra Veterinary Medical Association, and the Association of Pet Dog Trainers.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Angela on January 28, 2015

Excellent ideas, especially the encouragement to strongly integrate all kinds of puppy-training into every day life. However, I do think Ian Dunbar is rather unrealistic and terribly discouraging. As I began reading this book, I thought this was IT, the Holy Grail of dog/puppy training. But I quickl......more

Goodreads review by Peacegal on April 07, 2010

I have good and bad news about this book. The good is that this is my favorite puppy book I’ve read so far. The author advocates gentle and intelligent ways of handling Puppy’s misbehavior, rather than the painful or frightening correction methods advocated by other authors. He explains exactly why y......more

Goodreads review by Laurie (barksbooks) on September 23, 2011

This book is a comprehensive guide to selecting, preparing and caring for a puppy and a must read for anyone considering adding a canine baby to their lives or for anyone who needs to housebreak and train an older pup from scratch. The author tackles everything in a way that is understandable for eve......more

Goodreads review by Anna on December 28, 2016

I mean, it's fine, and helpful, but pedantic and fear-mongering. We all make mistakes. Dogs are resilient. One accident is not the undoing of your puppy training program. Possibly I just chafed at the tone because at this point I'm relatively well-read in this area, and it felt condescending and unn......more

Goodreads review by Alika on July 13, 2008

This book helped my husband and me tremendously when preparing for our first puppy, an excitable Boston Terrier. Dunbar breaks down the training process for you and makes it less overwhelming and more logical. He definitely seems to understand the canine mind and what ways work best to communicate w......more