Dog experts share practical tips, savvy solutions and emotion-filled stories to help busy owners raise a well-mannered dog.

Feeling guilty as you rush off to work and leave your dog home alone? Today's dog owners can choose from many pet care options to give their dogs healthy, fun, and safe ways to spend their days. Doggy Day Care helps you compare the benefits of drop-off centers to the perks of hiring a dog walker or in-home pet sitter. If your pup stays home alone, learn practical tips on how to create a cozy, dog-proof area and curb boredom-induced destructiveness.

Presents more than four hundred lists on various information on cats, including cat breeds, training, and behavior, as well as such topics as famous cats in history, cat food recipes, and gifts for pampered cats.

Making light of a difficult topic, Obesity discusses an issue that too many dog owners refuse to acknowledge, or even see. Because excessive weight on a dog’s body can shorten his life, obesity is an issue that all owners must face, and author Arden Moore presents it with sensitivity, intelligence, and humor, launching into the book with an opening chapter called “Facing the Fat Facts. As all Simple Solutions books do, Obesity offers many remedies for the problem at hand, including fixing diets, making mealtime fun (without refilling the bowl), exercise regimens, play sessions, daily walks and more.

Arden Moore’s snappiest dog-training treatise is captured in this Simple Solutions guide, Clicker Training. All of the principles of positive training techniques wrapped up in a 64-page guide that owners can read and re-read as their dogs become flawless, well-behaved companions. Moore covers the basics of motivational training and the importance of timing the click perfectly to reward the dog. As a method, clicker training offers owners not only the option of teaching basic cues (sit, stay, down) but also alternative ways to solve common behavioral issues. The book offers Simple Solutions for problems like digging, chewing, barking, biting, jumping, and more. Owners can click away their problems with the most humane behavioral modification method ever invented!

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In this book, we talk about a main topic that is further broken down into multiple topics. Our main topic is how to care for your dog, hence the name of the book. Inside, on these pages, we talk about what things you need to know to take care of your dog as well as how to make sure they are healthy and happy. Every owner wants the best for their dog and wants to be able to give their dog the best possible food, and keep them in the best health possible. After all, dog is man's best friend. You may think that you know everything there is to know about taking care of your dog, but even an old dog can learn new tricks, as they say. This is also a great book for new owners who need to known the basics, and everything there is to know about their dogs, and taking care of your dog. It contains great, informative information about basically everything that you want and need to known having to do with your dog's health, exercise, and safety.

America's foremost authorities on dog care and training distill decades of experience in a comprehensive "foundational" guide for dog owners. No matter what training method or techniques you use with your dog, the training is unlikely to be optimally successful unless it is predicated on an understanding of the dog's true nature. Dogs need food, water, exercise and play, rest, veterinary care -- the basics. But since dogs naturally want to be led, they also need focused and compassionate guidance. Through abundant stories and case studies, the authors reveal how canine nature manifests itself in various behaviors, some potentially disruptive to domestic accord, and show how in addressing these behaviors you can strengthen the bond with your dog as well as keep the peace. The promise of this book is that, especially in an ever-accelerating world filled with digital distractions, you can learn from your dog's example how to live in the moment, thereby enriching your life immeasurably.