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Summary: Not just for the city dog...
Review: ...this book is an excellent source for any dog owner. With their usual entertaining writing style, Brian Kilcommons and Sarah Wilson guide one through choosing a dog, housebreaking and training it. Their experience in dog training is extensive and it shows throughout the advice and tips in the book. We live in the suburbs, but have found this book tremendously helpful as we work our German Shepherd puppy towards being a therapy dog! ...
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Summary: Not just for the city dog...
Review: ...this book is an excellent source for any dog owner. With their usual entertaining writing style, Brian Kilcommons and Sarah Wilson guide one through choosing a dog, housebreaking and training it. Their experience in dog training is extensive and it shows throughout the advice and tips in the book. We live in the suburbs, but have found this book tremendously helpful as we work our German Shepherd puppy towards being a therapy dog! ...
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Summary: Metro Dog
Review: As a professional trainer living near Seattle I can't tell you what a gift this book is! And with rural areas becoming more crowded and "city" like it can be for every dog or anyone like me that travel with their dog. I live in the country, but my dogs are "city savvy" and so can all dogs with the help of this book.I am also a therapy dog specialist and I volunteer with my dogs at hospitals and a new program called Reading With Rover at the King County Library in Bothell Washington. Anyone wanting to do therapy dog work should get Metro Dog as it's great advice for any dog and for those who want to volunteer with their dog in therapy work this book will get you and your dog going in the right direction. The format of the book is easy, the wording is totally practical and any novice dog owner will appreciate this book and they should keep it by their nightstand. As with Kilcommons and Wilson's other books it's flare for humor and common sense advice is much appreciated. As anyone with a dog knows you have to have a sense of humor and the right attidude and this book will help you find it! I'm only sorry I can rate this book with five stars as it deserves a 10!
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Summary: Dogs in the city? Who'd a-thunk it?
Review: Brian Kilcommons and Sarah Wilson, of course! OK, well, they didn't invent the idea of dogs living happily in urban areas, but they can show you how to raise your pup into a confident, social, well-exercised and happy pet in a teeming Metropolis. They do it by drawing on a combined thirty years of experience training dogs and their people. Much like their previous all-around dog-training book "Good Owners, Great Dogs," "Metrodog" offers tons of how-to know-how from dog trainers who (surprise!) can actually write! The book is a helpful compendium of training tips, photographs and anecdotal information. From solid content on how to select a dog for the city to things to teach it and simple instructions for doing them, this book is unlike most any you will have probably read about dog training. The authors focus on city life for dogs, and their positive, fun approach to training make it a must for city-dwelling canine-lovers. How on earth do you housetrain a dog when you live on the 35th floor? How hard is it to exercise a dog on busy sidewalks? What if I need to hail a cab (or take the subway) and I have a dog with me? These questions and more are concretely answered with several dashes of Sarah and Brian's trademark humor thrown in. They also cover selecting a trainer, destructive behaviors, the older dog, dealing with dog parks, dealing with different dog temperaments, and proofing your city canine to all manner of things you and he will encounter on the street. Even folks who live in suburbia will find much of interest here, for the behaviors covered are good for ALL dogs to know, even if you never plan on living on the 35th floor of anywhere. Just like on their website called GreatPets, Brian and Sarah share the best of their knowledge with us because they love dogs and what dogs bring to our lives. I highly recommend "Metrodog."
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Summary: Metrodog: Not Just For City Folk
Review: But particularly helpful for those of us who take on the highly rewarding challenge of sharing our busy city lives with a canine companion. It may just make you want to grab your dog and move to the big city! Useful for ALL dog owners and a NECESSITY for urban dog owners. Great photographs. Accessible to the average dog owner but with interesting, unique information for seasoned dog-lovers. I am a HUGE MetroDog fan. There's advice in there that I've NEVER seen anywhere else, and I have 2+ shelves worth of dog books in my house. Nowhere else discusses how to secure your dog safely while you grab a cup of coffee, or how to hail a cab with your dog, for example. One of the most *practical* books - and not just for city dwellers. Suburbanites without fenced yards or even just full-time workers will find much useful info.
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Summary: Metrodog: Not Just For City Folk
Review: But particularly helpful for those of us who take on the highly rewarding challenge of sharing our busy city lives with a canine companion. It may just make you want to grab your dog and move to the big city! Useful for ALL dog owners and a NECESSITY for urban dog owners. Great photographs. Accessible to the average dog owner but with interesting, unique information for seasoned dog-lovers. I am a HUGE MetroDog fan. There's advice in there that I've NEVER seen anywhere else, and I have 2+ shelves worth of dog books in my house. Nowhere else discusses how to secure your dog safely while you grab a cup of coffee, or how to hail a cab with your dog, for example. One of the most *practical* books - and not just for city dwellers. Suburbanites without fenced yards or even just full-time workers will find much useful info.
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Summary: Highly Recommended
Review: Few people writing about dogs today have as much hands-on experience as this team. This is the book that I recommend to those who adopt dogs from me. I know that the advice that new dog owners will glean from this book will be level-headed, responsible, practical and kind. Metrodog covers issues that real dog owners face. How can I get my dog to behave well enough to take him on my day to day errands? How should I handle encounters with those who are mentally ill? How should I exercise my dog? The skills listed herein are practical and easy to teach. I adopt my rescue dogs to families who will really love and care for them, and I recommend books that will help them to integrate their new dogs easily and painlessly. I recommend Metrodog wholeheartedly.
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Summary: MetroDog is GREAT for any Dog !!!!!!
Review: I had been anticipating this book for some time - it's authors Brian Kilcommons and Sarah Wilson have a number of wonderful pet resource books to choose from.
I read MetroDog cover to cover very quickly and then went back and savoured it more slowly. This is a wonderful book for dog owners - all dog owners - but especially suited to urban dwellers.
The book design is well thought out - the photographs are great and the shaded and boxed areas are very helpful - full of good hints and advice.
EVERYTHING is covered - from choosing a pup for city living to training to behaviour issues. They have thought of just about everything that a dog owner needs to know.
I think this book is a valuable resource and I find myself referring to it often to look up little bits of information as I need them. As a veterinarian and a puppy trainer, I highly recommend this book. I can't wait for the next installment.
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Summary: MetroDog is GREAT for any Dog !!!!!!
Review: I had been anticipating this book for some time - it's authors Brian Kilcommons and Sarah Wilson have a number of wonderful pet resource books to choose from.
I read MetroDog cover to cover very quickly and then went back and savoured it more slowly. This is a wonderful book for dog owners - all dog owners - but especially suited to urban dwellers.
The book design is well thought out - the photographs are great and the shaded and boxed areas are very helpful - full of good hints and advice.
EVERYTHING is covered - from choosing a pup for city living to training to behaviour issues. They have thought of just about everything that a dog owner needs to know.
I think this book is a valuable resource and I find myself referring to it often to look up little bits of information as I need them. As a veterinarian and a puppy trainer, I highly recommend this book. I can't wait for the next installment.
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Summary: Kilcommons and Wilson have done it again.
Review: I thought I would like this book, and I did. I've read all of the authors' other books about dogs, and this one was right up to par. There was no resting on laurels! Metrodog is invaluable for dog-owning city dwellers, but it's equally useful for dog owners in any location. The book begins with how to find the right dog, and ends with how to say good-bye to a faithful old friend. In between it covers housebreaking, food, manners, training, socialization, exercise, and health care, with hundreds of useful details discussed with the authors' customary savvy and humor. For readers who are interested in learning how to successfully and happily share their lives with a dog, this is the book to read.
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