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By the time you finish this audiobook, you will know what to look for when picking out a puppy, the amount of responsibility involved in owning a dog, and how to prepare for the arrival of your new dog.

Do you want to create a loving and life-long relationship with your puppy? Do you want to grow up a happy puppy through simple and amusing techniques? Do you want to learn the proven strategies and secrets so your pup will understand you? If you want to raise your best friend with joy and happiness then Dog Training is the most immediate and complete guide to finding the answers you are looking for.

When Mark Doty went looking to adopt a small dog, a cuddly creature who might comfort his terminally ill partner, Wally Roberts, he was surprised to find himself returning home from an animal shelter with a full-grown golden retriever, a dog whose "absolute openess of regard", and paw gently offered through the bars of a cage, proved irresistable to him.

This must-have cookbook for dog owners features over 300 nutritionally balanced fresh dog food recipes. Written by a veterinarian, who is also a culinary school graduate, 300 Dog Food Recipes shows how fresh ingredients cooked and measured per each meal will produce the healthiest diet for any size dog. The book includes cooking instructions, snacks, and feeding guides, as well as information on feeding dogs with illnesses.

Weimaraner is exactly what every dog owner needs if they own or are seeking a Weimaraner! This book provides owners with the in-depth knowledge of the Weimaraner breed. Owners should familiarize themselves with this high energy, brilliant bird loving dog.

Dogs live to play! It's hardwired into their DNA. And when approached with intention, play provides the perfect opportunity to support behavioral development, obedience, and develop strong bonds between pup and owner that will last a lifetime. The Joy of Playing with Your Dog guides you through a program of structured play with activities that lead to both better dog-to-dog and dog-to-human relationships. The games, tricks, and socialization techniques are designed specifically for puppies, adult, and even senior dogs.

It’s time to take a big step beyond the regular old sit, stay, and roll over with your dog. Canine enrichment can help reduce stress in your dog as well as give them a constructive way to drain their energy. We all know what it’s like to be bored at home, and with a dog, boredom leads to trouble. With Happy Dog, you will learn simple ways to stimulate your dog’s mind and keep them occupied whenever they need.

With teenage children and in-laws in tow, the Fleetwood family embarks on their three-month family vacation just days after the tragic loss of their beloved dachshund, Coco. When two miniature dachshunds in smart winter coats are spotted in Moscow, it’s game on! A riotous, often hilarious dachshund-spotting competition for the lovable long-bodied dog ensues across 15 countries. Filled with love, laughter, and sadness at times, Destination Dachshund offers a unique twist on the travel memoir with remembrance for those who have been loved and lost.

Starting a new life in a new city, in a new country, Ying Ying and her family adopt a stray dog, the much-loved Max. As changes in Ying Ying's life bring frustration and sadness as well as surprise and joy, quite unexpectedly she realises that what remains most constant in her life is her dog. Starting with Max captures the journey of a migrant in mid-life crisis struggling to come to terms with her new identity in a foreign land. Ying Ying finds herself driven by her dog to pursue a life of action and meaning, persistence and determination.

Many would say that it is our emotional bonds that define us, and none are as magical and mystical as the bond between people and their pets. It is in this spirit that Chicken Soup for the Cat & Dog Lover's Soul was created. Picking up where the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul left off, Chicken Soup for the Cat & Dog Lover's Soul is filled with heart-warming tales of how pets have filled our hearts with love...

Zoey’s Tail is a beautiful and humorous doggie tale packed with helpful dog training hints, humor, and thoughts about raising your puppy with love. Entertaining and heartwarming for all age groups. After this true story concludes, there is a segment on basic tips for training your dog, followed by an amusing section on doggie resolutions, a waggish discussion on doggie vocabulary and commands, and a thought-provoking section titled: What My Dogs Have Taught Me.

The Airedale Terrier - A breed of dog like no other. Without a doubt, the Airedale Terrier has what it takes to be a great dog, but do you have what it takes to be a great dog owner? The Complete Guide to Airedale Terriers offers the insight you’ll need to enjoy a long and happy life with your dog, including how to choose the right Airedale, characteristics of the breed’s temperament, advice on housetraining, doggy daycare, nutrition, grooming, how to teach your dog basic commands, proper manners, social skills, and more.

Dr. Andrew Root's search for the canine soul began the day his eight-year-old son led the family in a moving Christian ritual at the burial service for Kirby, their beloved black Lab. In the coming weeks, Root found himself wondering: What was this thing we'd experienced with this animal? Why did the loss hurt so poignantly? Why did his son's act seem so right in its sacramental feel?

In E. B. White on Dogs, his granddaughter and manager of his literary estate, Martha White, has compiled the best and funniest of her grandfather's essays, poems, and letters depicting over a dozen of his various canine companions. Included here are favorite essays such as "Two Letters, Both Open", "Bedfellows", and many others, as well as some of White's little-known notes and comment pieces covering dog shows, sled dog races, and the trials and tribulations of city canines.

This guidebook will spend some time talking about the best steps to take when crate training your puppy. We will start with some of the basics of crate training for puppies, even looking at some of the different crates that you are able to use. We will discuss a regular method of crate training that you can spread out over a few weeks. If you are short on time, we include a weekend plan to get crate training done quickly. We will also look at how you can use crate training to house train your puppy in no time. Listen to this guidebook and get started with crate training today!

Want a well-behaved dog? One that you can be proud of and show off to everyone you know? Then you need to keep reading...Most dog obedience training issues and bad dog behaviors are a result of human error, or human misunderstanding. But the scientific training that has been developed from years of studying the brains of dogs has made puppy training so easy-to-follow now, a caveman could do it. So even if you’ve never taken care of anything in your life, even you can become the perfect puppy parent.

Created by experienced ACD owner and professional dog-trainer Tarah Schwartz, this audiobook will give new owners as well as those experienced with the ACD breed all the necessary skills and insights to keep your Australian cattle dog happy and healthy from puppyhood through his or her golden years.

With over 20 years of experience training puppies of all shapes and sizes, our handbook has been created to help you navigate the first few months of puppy ownership. The perfect guide for beginners or more experienced puppy owners, our easy peasy training methods will help you get the desired reactions when playing, walking, feeding, and sleeping. All of our techniques are designed to make life with your new dog more fun.

Cavachons are a popular new cross breed that can make a nearly perfect companion. Both of their parent breeds, the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and the Bichon Frise, are well-loved because of how personable and cute they are. As you begin your journey toward Cavachon ownership, let this audiobook guide you along in the process. It will help you prepare from the very beginning stages of choosing your Cavachon, to bringing it home, training, socializing, feeding, and even growing old with your Cavachon.

A memoir of second chances, healing, and how rescuing a dog rescued me Having never had a dog of his own before, Don was not prepared for what it meant to adopt one of the most behaviorally difficult rescues in the shelter. But something about Barbie, a mutt that everyone had given up on and so fearful and unresponsive that she was within days of being put down, convinced Don to open his home and his heart for the first time to a canine companion, changing both of their lives forever.