DogPerfect: The User-Friendly Guide to a Well-Behaved Dog

Written in style that can be applied by anyone. Helped me understand my fur baby better and why he acts as he does. Better than in-person classes by the chain pet stores.

I have recommended this book over and over and over. Hodgson is both funny and practical. I particularly like that she has training suggestions geared toward the temperaments of various breeds.

It is always good to learn as much as you can from as many people as you can. I had never read a book by this author before. She gives a lot of interesting and useful information in an easy to read style.

Incredibly useful. I feel much more confident in interacting with my puppy. Sarah Hodgson explains how the world appears to the puppy, and gives you new approaches to training.

I did not like how it did not show you how to train I gave the book away

I have a little dog. this book is perfect. It gives some really good instruction. easy to read. I recommend it.

This book seems to be an excellent book for training your dog -- big or small. The author takes you from trying to understand your dog, to simple things you should need to train your dog, the first basic commands, moving on to harder things. At the end the author also outlines a variety of items to discipline your dog if your dog has problems of barking, chewing etc.Not only is the book detailed, but set up in a way that you can easily read. Lists are very helpful in this book. The book also has interesting antecdotes about the author's experience with dogs which are separated out so that people who don't want to read them don't have to read them.The content is good to help because it doesn't limit your options to one way of correcting your dog, but gives other ideas for those of us who are only a little creative. The book even talks about what games are good to play and has given me a few ideas for games for me and my dog.My only problem with the book is the plug for a specially designed leash that the author sells. It does sound like a good leash for a dog that is kept inside most of the time. My dog is mostly outside and so the training with the special leash doesn't look that practical to me.I think the best part of the book is the constant encouragement to the dog owners. The author tells us that training a dog depends on our attitude and does everything possible to keep our attitude to be helpful for training our dogs. One of the better dog-training books I have found.

This is one of the best dog-training books I've read. I've had my Border Collie for 2 1/2 years and I've read several books, online articles, and even spoke with two different dog behaviorists and still managed to learn several things from Ms. Hodgson's book.Scold the cookies, not the dog - what a great idea. Your dog gets the idea that the cookies are a bad thing & he should just leave them alone lest he be associated with them. He doesn't want you to think HE is bad, too!Love it.Thank you, Ms. Hodgson - I'm happy to recommend your book to everyone I know who needs some advice on living with their canine companions.

Very good book