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The Everything New Puppy Book: Choosing, raising, and training your new best friend
Nothing is more adorable than a new puppy. But without the proper time spent training them, today s puppies can become tomorrow s nightmare hounds. This book teaches puppy owners all they need to know to successfully raise a puppy of any breed or background. Complete with black-and-white photos, owners will learn how to:
Choose the best breed for their lifestyle
Help children and other pets acclimate to the new puppy
Puppyproof the house
Housebreak and train the new puppy
Feed and groom according to age and breed
Solve common behavior problems
Also includes detailed information on alternative health care options as well as exercises and advanced training techniques. This book has everything puppy owners need to ensure that their new puppy grows into a happy, healthy, and well-behaved dog."
Choose the best breed for their lifestyle
Help children and other pets acclimate to the new puppy
Puppyproof the house
Housebreak and train the new puppy
Feed and groom according to age and breed
Solve common behavior problems
Also includes detailed information on alternative health care options as well as exercises and advanced training techniques. This book has everything puppy owners need to ensure that their new puppy grows into a happy, healthy, and well-behaved dog."
304 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
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April 15, 2021
Lots of good info, well written and easy to read. Only complaint is that there are some parts of the book that have you ask questions about your dog's health/food/play/etc but don't tell you what the answers should be.
June 13, 2016
Lots of good advice!
February 3, 2022
Great Preparation Book
We have owned 3 dogs over the decades. After a gap to mourn the loss of our much loved senior dog last year, we are excited to be welcoming a puppy into our home. I have really appreciated this book as a refresher and source of great new information for our new family member. Simple and practical the advice is broken down into easily achievable stages.
We have owned 3 dogs over the decades. After a gap to mourn the loss of our much loved senior dog last year, we are excited to be welcoming a puppy into our home. I have really appreciated this book as a refresher and source of great new information for our new family member. Simple and practical the advice is broken down into easily achievable stages.
June 14, 2017
Some parts were a little too elementary/over explanatory but overall contains solid and informative content. Especially appreciated the sample schedules for puppy's first day home and beyond.
December 8, 2017
A great general guide to life with a furry friend. A little heavy-handed regarding dog breeders and making environmentally friendly puppy purchases. Still, really solid advice.
March 30, 2010
I used to think a puppy playpen was a needless luxury until I read the first couple pages of this book, in which the author describes a Dalmatian puppy eating the kitchen table. Add a playpen to my growing list of costly puppy accessories.
A large section of the book deals with different breeds, choosing the right puppy for you, and various ways of obtaining a dog. Since we’ve already decided on the breed we’re looking to adopt, I found this section only mildly helpful. Of greater concern is the book’s misinformed position on pet shops: “While many pet shops are negatively labeled, because they use breeding farms called puppy mills to supply them, many pet shops do in fact use better suppliers.” Huh? Pet welfare organizations estimate that a good 90 percent of pet shop puppies come from puppy mills. Since the authors spent a previous chapter emphasizing that a “quality” breeder will be very concerned where his puppies are going and will want to interview you, they don’t seem to be taking their own advice. No conscientious person is going to put tiny puppies on a truck and ship them to pet stores where they’re fair game for anyone with a credit card. The authors miss a crucial opportunity to inform readers that if they purchase from a puppy mill, they not only risk getting a pet with congenital defects and poor socialization, but they also help fund the tremendous suffering of mill breeding dogs. Read Saving Gracie: How One Dog Escaped the Shadowy World of American Puppy Mills if you think it’s not important where you get your puppy.
I was also concerned that some of the recommended training methods seemed unnecessarily harsh—such as the suggestion to startle a puppy in his crate if he won’t stop crying. To me, this seems like teaching him his den is not a safe place to be.
Illustrations of puppy teaching methods would have been infinitely helpful. Instead, the authors decide to pepper the book with cute photos of puppies—and often the exact same ones over and over again. I would have much rather seen a diagram of a complicated lesson like “heel” rather than the umpteenth picture of the same Great Dane puppy. I also found the numerous typos distracting.
Because I am a true dog novice, this book was still helpful to me—and I need all the help I can get! However, more experienced dog people will want to look for something a little better written and more in-depth.
A large section of the book deals with different breeds, choosing the right puppy for you, and various ways of obtaining a dog. Since we’ve already decided on the breed we’re looking to adopt, I found this section only mildly helpful. Of greater concern is the book’s misinformed position on pet shops: “While many pet shops are negatively labeled, because they use breeding farms called puppy mills to supply them, many pet shops do in fact use better suppliers.” Huh? Pet welfare organizations estimate that a good 90 percent of pet shop puppies come from puppy mills. Since the authors spent a previous chapter emphasizing that a “quality” breeder will be very concerned where his puppies are going and will want to interview you, they don’t seem to be taking their own advice. No conscientious person is going to put tiny puppies on a truck and ship them to pet stores where they’re fair game for anyone with a credit card. The authors miss a crucial opportunity to inform readers that if they purchase from a puppy mill, they not only risk getting a pet with congenital defects and poor socialization, but they also help fund the tremendous suffering of mill breeding dogs. Read Saving Gracie: How One Dog Escaped the Shadowy World of American Puppy Mills if you think it’s not important where you get your puppy.
I was also concerned that some of the recommended training methods seemed unnecessarily harsh—such as the suggestion to startle a puppy in his crate if he won’t stop crying. To me, this seems like teaching him his den is not a safe place to be.
Illustrations of puppy teaching methods would have been infinitely helpful. Instead, the authors decide to pepper the book with cute photos of puppies—and often the exact same ones over and over again. I would have much rather seen a diagram of a complicated lesson like “heel” rather than the umpteenth picture of the same Great Dane puppy. I also found the numerous typos distracting.
Because I am a true dog novice, this book was still helpful to me—and I need all the help I can get! However, more experienced dog people will want to look for something a little better written and more in-depth.
January 9, 2014
The Everything New Puppy Book is an informational, animal nonfiction book written by Carlo De Vito with Amy Ammen. This book teaches puppy owners and people interested in getting a puppy how to raise it from day 1. It recommends what breed would be best for your lifestyle, how to prepare yourself and house, training your puppy, grooming, housetraining, everything you need to know. I really liked this book because it contained a lot of useful information plus fun facts. I would recommend this book to anyone who has a puppy or is interested in getting a puppy would enjoy this book and find it very useful.
November 9, 2012
This book had some good tips and so far they seem to work. Our puppy is still a little crazy, but she is a puppy and that's how puppies are. This book also answered some questions and also answered questions I didn't think of. Good book all around.
May 6, 2009
Really cool and very informative!!
September 5, 2014
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January 12, 2015
Great guide, lots of handy tips. Easy to find stuff, easy to read & follow.
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