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How to Give Your Dog a Real Dog’s Life – and make him love you for it
Owen Jones' Website
Category:
Pets/Pet Care
Publisher: Owen Jones
ISBN-10: 9781490909769
Pages: 85
Copyright: July 4th, 2013
ISBN-13: 1490909761
Price: $4.95 (eBook)
How to Give Your Dog a Real Dog’s Life (and make him love you for doing it). All you need to know and more about looking after a dog, whether it's your first or your last.
How To Give Your Dog A Real Dogs Life
(and Make Him Love Your for It!)
'How To Give Your Dog A Real Dogs Life (and Make Him Love Your for It!) is a manual about how to take care of a dog, which deals with the subject even from before you have bought or acquired your dog. In other words, it begins with the very selection of your pet.
The title, 'How To Give Your Dog A Real Dogs Life (and Make Him Love Your for Doing It!), sets the tone of the book - it is mildly humorous in its approach, but do not let that fool you into thinking that Mr. Jones does not know about dogs or that he does not know how to put it across.
This book, or perhaps manual, to be more accurate, is a complete work and as such has something for every dog owner, but it is best suited for those who are just embarking (pun intended) on a life with a dog, because it has excellent advice on which type of breed to choose to suit you, your family and your home.
Did you know, for example, that some dogs are 'healthier' than others for those humans who suffer from allergies?
Or that once you have selected the breed that best suits your circumstances, there are ways of choosing the puppy with the type of character that you prefer?
The answers to these questions and many more are given within the first dozen pages alone! There is a great deal of information and a great deal of value in this book of almost a hundred pages, which seems just right for the information that Mr. Jones conveys.
There is very little padding, just enough to put in the odd humorous item, although not all of the humour is about jokes. I personally loved the sections on 'How to Speak Canine' and 'How To Tell Your Dog A Joke', but I will not spoil those sections for you by revealing them here.
Apart from what I have already mentioned, there is advice on how to get your dog home; travelling with him or her; your dog's requirements within its new home, such as its bedding and basket.
There is advice on food and the quantities it requires at the different stages of its life; pregnancy; training it; introducing it to the neighbourhood; swimming with your dog and anything else you can think of.
'How To Give Your Dog A Real Dogs Life (and Make Him Love Your for Doing It!) is an excellent book-cum-manual and I thoroughly recommend it to all dog-owners. It would make an especially appropriate gift for any child living in a family with a dog.
Excerpt
CONTENTS
Dedication v1
1 Introduction 1
2 Choosing a Kennel Mate 3
3 Taking Fido Home 8
4 Preparing Fido's New Home10
5 Fido's First Day 12
6 The Daily Routine 14
7 How to Make a Dog's Dinner of It
8 Canine Food Allergies 20
9 Supplements and Treats 25
10 A Rose By Any Other Name... 28
11 Basic Training 31
12 Bath Time 36
13 Brushing or Grooming 40
14 Nail Clipping 41
15 Bedding 43
16 Speaking Canine 45
17 Snoring 47
18 Vegetarianism for Dogs 49
19 Going on Holiday 51
20 Scratching 55
21 Fleas and Other Parasites 57
22 Behavioural Problems 62
23 Has Your Dog Had His Chips? 64
24 Preventing Unwanted Pregnancy 66
25 Keeping Fido Motivated 68
26 Pet Insurance 70
27 How To Tell Your Dog A Joke 72
28 References 75
DEDICATION
To Sheba, Becky, Bpom and Anghun, the best dogs I've ever known
1 Introduction
Almost everyone has fond memories of being with animals when they were young, it is what makes people try to reproduce the situation either for themselves or their children, but what most people forget is that their parents trained those animals, they did not just come like that.
There is no such thing as a perfect pet, perfect dog, perfect human or perfect anything. There is as good as you're going to get, as best as you can make it and what best suits you.
A lot of people believe that all dogs of the same breed are the same too, but this is not really the full story. The fact is that all dogs are different within a breed and even within a litter, although they may share certain broad characteristics within a breed and even within a litter.
This is because certain characteristics are bred into these breeds by us humans and dogs from the same litter will have had the same parents and the same handlers, but each individual dog may deal with any given situation in its own inimitable way. In other words, each dog has its own personality.
If you are not too familiar with dogs, ask someone who is and they will back me up, a pound to a penny.
This means that not all Pit Bull Terriers and Rottweilers are vicious and not all Labradors are lovely, but that all dogs have the potential to be any type of dog, if it is trained to be that way and treated in the correct manner
If a dog associates strangers with a threat, he will react like that, if he associates visitors with kindness, he will welcome them. The same goes for children, cats, other species of animal and other dogs. It is mostly in their nurture with a little bit in their nature too. After all, they all still have a little of the wolf in them.
It is true that dogs of a certain breed may share some behavioural characteristics. For example, most Labradors enjoy swimming and love to fetch a ball or a stick, because retrieving fallen game is what they were designed to do. There are exceptions to every rule, but knowing a breed's designed behavioural (as well as physical) characteristics will help you to decide on a dog that will likely be a good fit for you and your lifestyle.
The more research you do before you go to choose your dog, the more likely you are to get the best dog for you and / or your family or environment.
You are taking the right first step now by reading this book.
Good Luck!
PS: Subjects covered in this book, but not obvious from the chapter headings include:
• Hypoallergenic dogs
• Dog selection criteria
• Personal puppy selection tips
• How much to feed and when
• Organic dog food
• Home-made dog food
• Dangerous dog treats
• Leash training
• Playing catch
• Football
• Swimming
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