David the Dogman's A-Z Guide to Dogs: More Than 300 Entries on Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Man's Best Friend - Softcover

Klein, D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8489954089 ISBN 13: 9788489954083

Publisher: Santana Books, 1999

Synopsis

More than 300 entries on everything you ever wanted to know about man's best friend. Articles by world experts plus a full internet Guide listing to over 250 top canine web sites.

About this title

Review

"David trains pet owners". -- The Times in featuring a half-page of tips for owners from the book.

"Fascinating and essential reading for every one of the seven million people in Britain who own a dog." -- Alison Phillips, features editor, Sunday People.

"I've seen hundreds of doggie books and this is quite unlike anything else..." -- Beverley Cuddy, editor, Dogs Today, the U.K.’s leading dog magazine

"In addition to being a good book about dogs, David's book is a state of the art resource. -- Terry Ryan, Top Behaviourist in the USA

"Knowledge born of experience, combines good sense with compassion." -- Dr Roger Mugford The UK leading Behaviourist

From the Author

A dog is truly man’s best friend but man is not always a dog’s best friend. This is mainly due to lack of understanding of the canine mentality and what is a dog’s normal behaviour.

No other animal gives us the companionship, loyalty and devotion of a dog. The aim of this book is to give you a better understanding of your dog and knowledge about it from the serious to the frivolous (to remind you that dogs are fun) so that you can give it the loyalty and devotion it deserves. Whether you are thinking about acquiring a puppy or have owned dogs all your life, I hope you will find plenty to learn in these pages.

I am fortunate in having many friends among the leading canine behaviourists all around the world thanks to the Internet forums I manage. These forums enable all the latest ideas, techniques and problems to be discussed immediately, whereas previously this could only be done at occasional meetings or conferences which were rarely world wide.

The Internet has given me much information previously impossible to obtain. Many of my distinguished friends and some of the world’s leading authoritative sources have kindly agreed to share their expertise by contributing sections to this book. I am most grateful to them all. You can see how highly qualified they are in the following chapter entitled Acknowledgements.

This book is written in the form of an A–Z reference work with more than 4oo alphabetical references, some short, others long, so that you can easily find information about any behavioural problem (and a solution) as well as most facts about dogs.

Each alphabetical section is self-contained with cross-references to other relevant material so that you can quickly refer back to a section which you might want to look up at a later date. As a people canine educator, the slogan in which I believe is “commitment, firmness and kindness”.
COMMITMENT because a dog is for life. Before you acquire one you must be committed to looking after your friend for his or her life.
FIRMNESS. A dog needs to respect you as the dominant person in the household. Be firm and you will have a happier and more enjoyable life together.
KINDNESS. Physical punishment will solve no problems, indeed it may cause some. Kindness costs nothing but I promise you the rewards will be great. Beware the person who boasts about knowing all about dogs. “I’ve had dogs all my life”. People who have had several spouses will know each one was different.

Finally, always remember two things: · Dogs are not small, hair-coated humans: they probably regard humans as big, many-coated dogs. · the person who said you can’t buy happiness forgot about dogs. Happy reading.

Edition details

• Publisher: Santana Books
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8489954089
• ISBN 13: 9788489954083
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Bartlett D.
• Number of pages: 335