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How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend: The Classic Training Manual for Dog Owners (Revised & Updated Edition)
by Monks of New Skete

How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend: The Classic Training Manual for Dog Owners (Revised & Updated Edition)
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Author: Monks of New Skete
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-09
ISBN: 0316610003
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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  • ISBN13: 9780316610001
  • Condition: New
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Book Reviews of How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend: The Classic Training Manual for Dog Owners (Revised & Updated Edition)

Book Review: ... a classic made better ...
Summary: 5 Stars

The original "How to be Your Dog's Best Friend" is by any measure, a very complete and substantial dog book ...

This new revised edition is more than set to continue as a "classic" in its own right ... The revision is quite substantial - incorporating new understanding & the changes that have taken place in dog training over the past decade ... and the book continues to mirror the love & devotion that Skete Monks have always had for dogs.

Your Dog's Best Friend is by concept and intent is not just a "mere" dog training manual and offers much much more to the reader ...

The book covers a whole spectrum of topics from ... how to find/select a puppy ... cooking for your dog ... basic grooming ... basic training ... training for obedience competition ... including a section comprising of 9 chapters on how to deal with common problems related to living with dogs (with a chapter how to cope, when a dog passes on) ...

Not so commonly found in other dog books ... Your Dog's Best Friend also has a section titled "Sensitivity Exercises" ... dealing with issues of dog behaviour & dog behavioural patterns, and explains dog loneliness, dog silence and dog dreams ... This section also suggests various exercises (massage) and training (round robin recall of life), designed to enhance and make precious the people/dog relationship ... GREAT! ...

Another great section covers the spectrum of "Environments" where the Monks of New Skete explore city/urban life, suburban/country life and the great outdoors.

Written in conversation-like style, the book comes alive through the use of well chosen anecdotes, humour and the Monks' own distinctive approach & philosophy to life & living ...

The book makes for very easy reading, and in its clarity - makes for easy appreciation & understanding ...

But most of all - I have come to really like this book because - it touches me ...

"Myths, Mutts, and Monks" ... "What is a Dog?" ... bring warmth to the printed page, and the book urges the reader to begin a wonderful journey towards deeper & greater understanding of our canine friends ...

The Monks write " ... Because dogs are guileless and utterly themselves, they lack the capacity to deceive. if we take seriously the words they speak to us about ourselves, we stand face-to-face with our own truth."

A very good book ...

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