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Title: How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend: The Classic Training Manual for Dog Owners (Revised & Updated Edition) by The Monks of New Skete ISBN: 0-316-61000-3 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (86 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Being part of the pack
Comment: This is an outstanding book on dog training and how to train a dog to be well behaved and happy. It is based on years of experience as well as natural dog/wolf behavior. I am disappointed to see how many people have given this book bad reviews becuase they are upset about the disicpline techniques used. If they carfully read what the monks have to say about physical disipline they would understand that this is not about "beating" your dog. It is instead a very positive approach showing humane ways to get your dog's attention, love and trust so that you can live and work together in harmony. No human dog relationship can work well if the dog does not see people as leaders of the pack. The person using the training tips givin in this book that complained of their dog becoming a scared tremmbling mess must have missused this book. It does NOT recomend beating your dog!!! However, it does show you ways to communicate your wishes to your dog and become the pack leader so your dog will love trust and look to you for leadership. I have seen too many people with horribly behaved dogs beucase the dogs see themselves as the pack leader.
Rating: 5
Summary: Understanding the dogs relationship to family
Comment: This book is absolutely marvelous. For the intelligent dog owner, it is absolutely perfect. The suggestions are honest, straight-forward, and practical. For the idiots, well, it's just going to ruin their dog because they don't understand their dog enough to judge a situation appropriately. ONLY buy this book if you are willing to take a critical look at your dog and what they are doing and why they are doing things. You must be willing to work with your dog, and continually assess where you are with your pet and how they are responding to training. It is not a "fix it quick" kind of book, there are no shortcuts here. But if you want to learn how to develop a closer relationship with your dog and learn how your dog sees it's world and responds to it, this is the book for you. Yes, they do talk frankly about physical punishment, but let's be honest here - no one reading this review who cares about their pet wants to use physical punishment, and neither do the monks. But should you need it or find yourself giving in to it, this book is honest about what methods of physical punishment will do more harm than good. It shows you how to redirect that physical punishment into a constructive correction rather than beating your dog and turning it into a neurotic mess. Yes, positive methods are better, the book does not suggest that they are not, but sometimes punishment happens, and a responsible dog owner needs to know what is taking it too far before they actually make that mistake. The goal is preventing mistakes by the owner, not teaching you to beat your dog. So the people who claim that they made a mistake are, in my opinion, people who didn't understand how to continually monitor their dog. Yes, they would have been happier with another book and they might not have ruined their dog. But then, they could also have actually listened to the dog as well as to the book, and figured out what was and what wasn't working.
So I recommend this book to those owners who love their dog and are willing to take a long-term look at their dog, their own behavior, and the relationship they want with thier dog. The monks are insightful, caring, and show a clear respect for the dogs. Don't let the negative opinions sway you unless you feel that a dog training manual is a step-by-step list of things you should do. If so, this is not the book for you. You will need to learn to listen to your dog, you will need to learn to adjust your behavior to accomodate your dog's training, and you will need to be able to notice minute changes in your dog's behavior. Training, as discussed in this book, is a dynamic process, and you must be able to be in tune with that aspect of the process.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book that My Dog Loves
Comment: Yes, my dog really does love this book. She drags it off the coffee table a lot! I love it too, not to eat but to read. It's an easy read for kids like me and the training methods really work. My dog comes quicker than ever and she's only a puppy. Note: although this book has stern physical punishments, saying "no-no" to a dog that bites doesn't work, lol.
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Title: The Art of Raising a Puppy by New Skete Monks ISBN: 0316578398 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 20 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: I & Dog by Monks of New Skete, John Sann, Monique Stauder (Photographer) ISBN: 0972942734 Publisher: Yorkville Press Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Good Owners, Great Dogs by Brian Kilcommons, Sarah Wilson ISBN: 0446675385 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: How to Housebreak Your Dog in Seven Days by Shirlee Kalstone ISBN: 0553346156 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 January, 1985 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: In The Spirit of Happiness : A Book of Spiritual Wisdom by The Monks of New Skete ISBN: 0316606944 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 03 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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