Train Your Puppy in 8 Weeks: A Positive Guide for Dog Owners - Softcover

Schwartz, Charlotte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1621872246 ISBN 13: 9781621872245

Publisher: I-5 Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

The week-by-week training guide every new puppy owner needs!

• Puppy training for the critical first eight weeks a puppy spends in their new home, perfect for fosters, breeders, and new puppy owners
• Positive training methods organized week-by-week with lessons to house-train and teach your puppy basic commands, obedience, and more
• Updated edition includes content on housetraining, collar conditioning, and human-canine roles, as well as modernized terminology
• Author Charlotte Schwartz had trained dogs for over 40 years, was an award-winning author, and is known for being a trailblazer in positive dog training
• Tech editor Susan Ewing has updated the book to enhance Schwartz's proven methods with new perspectives, exercises, and techniques to help acclimate puppies to their new family

Focusing on the first eight weeks that a puppy spends in the new owner's home, this puppy training guide walks the owner through the lessons to teach one week at a time, offering common sense solutions to obedience and housetraining problems along the way.

Sidebars throughout the text offer useful tips and alternative methods on how to train a puppy and teach lessons, all of which were originated by Schwartz in her puppy classes over the decades. From the first week — during which the puppy is taught to sit and stay — to the eighth week — devoted to teaching the puppy to retrieve and a trick or two — this puppy primer is the best canine educational tool available!

This updated positive guide to puppy training was written by much-loved author and puppy-class instructor Charlotte Schwartz. The late Charlotte Schwartz had trained dogs for over 40 years and was a popular, award-winning author whose no-nonsense style of writing and training comes forth on every page of this introductory guide and dog training book. New to this edition is updated and modernized content on housetraining, collar conditioning, human and canine roles, and terminology.

A positive training guide for puppies (and their owners!), this week-by-week training handbook is a must for every family that brings home a new puppy!

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The week-by-week training guide every new puppy owner needs!

• Puppy training for the critical first eight weeks a puppy spends in their new home, perfect for fosters, breeders, and new puppy owners
• Positive training methods organized week-by-week with lessons to house-train and teach your puppy basic commands, obedience, and more
• Updated edition includes content on housetraining, collar conditioning, and human-canine roles, as well as modernized terminology
• Author Charlotte Schwartz had trained dogs for over 40 years, was an award-winning author, and is known for being a trailblazer in positive dog training
• Tech editor Susan Ewing has updated the book to enhance Schwartz's proven methods with new perspectives, exercises, and techniques to help acclimate puppies to their new family

Focusing on the first eight weeks that a puppy spends in the new owner's home, Puppy Training, Revised Edition walks the owner through the lessons to teach one week at a time, offering common sense solutions to obedience and housetraining problems along the way.

Sidebars throughout the text offer useful tips and alternative methods on how to train a puppy and teach lessons, all of which were originated by Schwartz in her puppy classes over the decades. From the first week — during which the puppy is taught to sit and stay — to the eighth week — devoted to teaching the puppy to retrieve and a trick or two — this puppy primer is the best canine educational tool available!

This updated positive guide to puppy training was written by much-loved author and puppy-class instructor Charlotte Schwartz. The late Charlotte Schwartz had trained dogs for over 40 years and was a popular, award-winning author whose no-nonsense style of writing and training comes forth on every page of this introductory guide and dog training book. New to this edition is updated and modernized content on housetraining, collar conditioning, human and canine roles, and terminology.

A positive training guide for puppies (and their owners!), this week-by-week training handbook is a must for every family that brings home a new puppy!

From the Back Cover

A Complete Guide to Training Your Puppy in Eight Weeks An updated edition of the best-selling guide, Puppy Training, Revised Edition is a unique and useful resource that details a complete positive training program for a puppy's first eight weeks in their new home. Learn from renowned dog trainer, Charlotte Schwartz, as her expertise and proven methods are shared for potty training, puppy motivation, personality testing, basic commands, obedience, fun tricks, and more. Designed to give dog owners an easy-to-follow sequence, one week at a time, Puppy Training, Revised Edition presents all the behaviors that you'll want to teach your puppies--just as if you and your puppy were in an obedience class! Known as a trailblazer in positive dog training, author Charlotte Schwartz trained dogs for over 40 years and was an award-winning author. Technical editor Susan Ewing has updated this best-selling book to enhance Charlotte's proven methods with new perspectives, exercises, and techniques to help acclimate puppies to their new family. - A detailed eight-week puppy training program that focuses on positive reinforcement - New revised edition includes updated information on housetraining, collar conditioning, human-canine roles, and more - Offers clear, commonsense solutions to obedience and housetraining problems, plus useful tips, alternative methods, and easy-to-follow exercises

Edition details

• Publisher: I-5 Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1621872246
• ISBN 13: 9781621872245
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Ewing Susan