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How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend: The Classic Training Manual for Dog Owners (Revised & Updated Edition)

How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend: The Classic Training Manual for Dog Owners (Revised & Updated Edition)

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Author: The Monks Of New Skete
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 154 reviews
Sales Rank: 2165

Media: Hardcover
Edition: Rev Upd
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.3

ISBN: 0316610003
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.70887
EAN: 9780316610001
ASIN: 0316610003

Publication Date: September 2002
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Customer Reviews:   Read 149 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Understanding your dog   October 10, 2008
I read this in the late 80's. It changed my world and my relationship with my dogs ever since. A must have for your library


2 out of 5 stars outdated, wrong, harsh   September 25, 2008
This book presents the state of the art in dog training dating back to about 1975. The techniques are based on punishment, not building a positive relationship with your dog. The techniques will work with SOME dogs, but you will get better results with all dogs by using more modern techniques based on a better understanding of how dogs learn. Check out books by Pat Miller, Patricia McConnell and Jean Donaldson, for a start.


4 out of 5 stars I was pleasantly please   September 15, 2008
 6 out of 6 found this review helpful

The first thing I noticed about this book is how the Monks start right away as "REAL" people who are not trying to sugarcoat the readers eyes with what you expect to read. They have a honest, different approach to training your dog with methods that will not agree with everyone. I believe their techniques are very helpful to anyone who has a larger breed dog but has limited training and behavioral information on the toy breed owners. Even though I have a toy breed, I found that some information in this book was helpful and very resourceful.


2 out of 5 stars can be too harsch for some breeds and temperaments   July 31, 2008
The methods in this book will work on many dogs but be dead wrong for certain temperaments and breeds. It is WAY to harsch for my soft goldens.


5 out of 5 stars Excellent book!!!   June 15, 2008
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is a revised addition of a wonderful book that has been around for a long time. The Monks are very impressive with their knowledge of dogs, their behavior and body language. The book teaches how to recognize the body language and how to correct unwanted behaviors. Their corrections are very quick and non abusive. They stress the necessity of being the pack leader but not in an overly demanding and strident manner. I have raised and trained many dogs using their methods and found them to be very successful. My dogs have always been good friends and a pleasure to have in our home. I highly recommend this book as well the other books by the Monks on training dogs.

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