Good Dog? Bad Dog?

This book is essential reading for all dog owners. It challenges many of the traditional and some of the more recent views on how you should treat your dog and concentrates on more up to date methods based on what we have learned about dog behaviour so far.It goes on to discuss choosing a new puppy, toilet training, basic training, appropriate play, use of a crate, teaching it how to earn its rewards, walking without pulling on a lead and how to help prevent problems in the future.

It also discusses how to help cope with the ones that arrive with baggage.

It then goes on to describe some of the different problems companion animal behaviourists are presented with, using real case studies and explains the complexities of each problem.

It also discusses the dangers of self diagnosis and how getting it wrong can cause distress for both owner and dog.This book is easy to follow and designed to show owners that their dog is an individual and thus special.

That if they have a problem, following a programme designed for another dog may not necessarily suit theirs and may be damaging. By understanding basic dog behaviour it soon becomes clear that a dog may NOT be tying to "dominate" its owner to gain Alpha status and that you do not have to eat dry crackers in front of it, ignore it for long periods of time or refuse it access to its favoured chair.

On the other hand you should not be physically abusing your dog by electrocuting it with a shock collar, shaking cans full of pebbles or dressing it up in various harnesses and other such paraphernalia.

There is another way!"Good Dog? Bad Dog?" is also formatted using lots of text boxes and bullets so even men find it easy to read.