| |  | Author: Shirlee Kalstone
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Book
List Price: $2.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  71 reviews
Sales Rank: 1448176
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 1
ISBN: 0553341197
EAN: 9780553341195
ASIN: 0553341197
Publication Date: January 1, 1985
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 good book! November 5, 2006
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
I read this book before I got my puppy. I used some of the advice given for training puppies under 16 weeks, because that is when the author says you can officially traing your dog. I learned how to read my dogs signals on when he had to go, and he is 13 weeks now and is pretty much trained. He knows outside is for going and he goes to the door and whines, etc. He has had a few accidents in the house, maybe once a week since we got him at 7 weeks. Overall, good advice for someone who has no idea on what to do about potty-training a puppy or older dog.
How to housebreak your dog in 7 days August 14, 2006
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I love this book. My puppy was only 8 weeks when I received the book and most of it already worked. It is a very informative book and details many different ideas of how to housebreak your dog. The best part about the book is that it is not too long. It is a quick read and interesting to learn about dog behavior, so that the training program makes sense.
I would recommend this book to anyone who has a new dog or trouble with training an older dog. The program really works.
Good book for dog owners July 20, 2006
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
We purchased this book a few weeks before we got our first dog, an 8-week-old Boston Terrier puppy. The guidelines in this book were really helpful to us as first-time dog owners. Our puppy is now a little over 12-weeks-old and she is already close to being fully house trained. Even though this book and other books say puppies don't have full control over their bladder/bowels until they are 16-weeks, we have followed the steps in the book since the day we got the puppy. And now she is almost fully house trained a month early.
I would recommend this book to any new dog owner.
informative and realistic! April 18, 2006
36 out of 36 found this review helpful
I purchased this book (and three others) to prepare myself and my fiance' for the arrival of our new puppy. This is the only book of the four I purchased that actually directly addressed how you are supposed to housetrain a puppy when you work and are not home with the dog all day. All the other books assumed you would be available every two to three hours to take the dog outside, which is, in my opinoin, very unrealistic for most people who work 8 hour or more days and can't hire a pet sitter to stay home with the puppy in their absence. This book provides detailed schedules for people who are able to be home all day as well as people who can't be with the puppy all day long, allowing you to develop a consistent, realistic program for your puppy regardless of your schedule. The book was a very quick read (I read it cover to cover in less than a hour), straight-forward, simple to read, and very understandable. The concepts and principles in this book seem as if they will be easy to implement. This book made me feel more confident that we will be able to work the puppy into our lifestyle (with a few minor changes) instead of having to overhaul our entire lives to be slaves to the puppy's bowel and bladder. I strongly recommend this book to other first-time puppy owners who, like us, want to "do it right" and are looking for strategies and solutions they can implement to raise their puppy to be a well-mannered, obedient, and loving dog.
A must for new puppy parents March 10, 2006
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Easy to read and concise. Can be read in about an hour. Sets forth good recommendations and sample schedules that can be adjusted to suit individual needs. Although title suggests success in seven days, book admits that all dogs are different and that the seven day period is to be viewed as a "foundation period." Gave it four stars because I would have liked a few more pages.
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