Full Description
Together, these two books will help you raise a puppy who is both physically and mentally healthy and happy.
How to Build a Puppy shows how to make some very simple changes to your homes, activities and exercise regimes to have a massive positive impact on your dog's life.
How to Raise a Puppy moves away from the outdated approach to 'training', focused on obedience and control, and instead takes an holistic, dog-centred approach. Drawing on research into how dogs naturally rear their young, and how dogs have evolved to behave and spend their time, it supports a new way of sharing our lives with our dogs. It also offers advice on dealing with some of the common challenges people experience with puppies.
Two much-needed resources for new 'pawrents' and for dog trainers, veterinarians and behaviourists to recommend to clients, these books convey a powerful message to help overcome the all too common issues so many people have with their puppies. Packed with practical advice, they offer an overdue "puppy perspective", with respect for a dog as a sentient being at their core.
Contents
How to Build a Puppy: Introduction. 1. Why is Giving Correct Exercise and Activity to your Puppy so Important? 2. Canine Anatomy - A Working Knowledge of How a Dog is Structured. 3. The Physical Constituents of a 'Joined Up Puppy'. 4. Building your Puppy using the Galen Puppy Physical Development Programme©. 5. Categories Involved with the Puppy's Development. 6. Part A: Early Puppy Development. Part B: Preparing the Home Environment. 7. What Not to Do! Unsuitable Activities and Why. 8. Equipment. 9.Puppy Massage. 10. Additional Useful Information. Recommended Reading. References. Resources.
How to Raise a Puppy: Introduction. 1. Preparing for Puppy 2. Bringing puppy home 3. Meeting your puppy's needs 4. Learning Life skills 5. Common concerns for puppy owners 6. Managing relationships 7. Activities to try with your puppy 8. Beyond Puppyhood- what to expect next 9. Turid's case studies 10. Closing remarks References & Further Reading
