Animal / Pet Books

Train your dog and you've got a better dog for life

Advantages: A well trained dog in all situations
Disadvantages: You need willpower and dedication to succeed

The Dog Listener by Jan Fennell is a dog behavior book which if you follow claims to put your book on the straight and narrow. Jan Fennell claims to have used the skills developed by the horse whisperer Monty Roberts to use the dogs inate desire for alpha dog status, so if you become the alpha male than the dog should obey your every instruction. So the book itself is split into easy chapter designed to reinforce the pack, make you the pack leader ...
...Jan Fennell is according to the authors notes, a trained psychologist, she like Clint Eastwood knows about people (or in Jans life dogs), so establish yourself as the pack leader and the dog will follow, allow it to be the pack leader and you will follow not the dog. So does it work, well the book has easy to follow instructions, such as ignoring your dog when you enter the room which stops the dog dominating you and therefore placing his alpha ...

alderman55 08.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Dog Listener - Jan Fennell

Excellent Guide for giving you a non-problematic dog!

Advantages: Clear, concise training aid.
Disadvantages: Can't think of any! It is a really good book.

...see that should the dog lose his hearing, I will still be able to get him under control without too much trouble. It's early days with this dog, but with the help of this book, I hope to feel happy to introduce him to friends and family! ...

cat136 09.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of It's Me or the Dog: How to Have the Perfect Pet - Victoria Stilwell

Clever Cats

Advantages: Cute cover
Disadvantages: Rubbish contents

...of those books is called Test Your Cat; The Cat IQ Test which was gifted to me by a friend presumably after she had taken the 10 minutes to test her cat and thought giving it to me was a way of making room on her bookshelf for something better. The Cat IQ test is a small hardback book with an attractive picture of a cat on the front. The book is only 120 pages long, most of those pages contain a single question with room to record your response by ...
...of the test and you will discover if your cat is an undiscovered genius. Questions ask about your cats behaviour, your kitty gains points for being able to swivel his ears round to listen to sounds more clearly, getting the attention of the humans he owns and requesting food on a regular schedule. The cat also loses points for falling into the toilet or stepping in his food bowl. A practical test gets you to touch the inside of your cats ears and ...

wigglylittleworm 19.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Test Your Cat - E.M. Bard

now its really true, who love their pet dog very much

Advantages: its more helpful,more informative, resources are original
Disadvantages: very few aspect i say that the instruction are little bit leangthy

from my opinion this book is really true for winning the love of a difficult dog. because he not only write the dogs acts with the human beings but also write the different kind of difficult dogs activities.i think this book is more more helpful who love their pet very much.and also this book is also very informative to the readers. and i also try myself to my dog by this books information. and really i get a positive feed back from my pet dog.from ...

bond7red 04.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Walking Ollie: Winning the Love of a Difficult Dog - Stephen Foster

Puss In Books

Advantages: The true story of a wonderful cat, Nicely written, Lots of appeal for cat lovers
Disadvantages: Tends to over-anthropomorphisise Dewey and see only the good in him

"Dewey - The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World" by Vicky Myron Hodder & Stoughton, 2008 Hardback, 277pp RRP £14.99, Amazon.co.uk £7.94 Cat lovers rejoice! After years of "Marley & Me" topping the best-seller lists, a new entrant to the pet lit genre has emerged - and this time, the star of the show is feline. "Dewey - The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World" by Vicky Myron has proved to be so popular that it has reached the number ...
...this year, and is starting to catch on in the UK if my local library's waiting lists for it are anything to go by. This book is hardly one of shocking twists and turns: you can tell from the title exactly what you are going to get (a library, a cat, cute moggy stories, something easy to read and heart-warming) and this has evidently proved to be a winning formula. Mind you, it helps that Dewey had built up a legion of fans (predominantly in the US, ...

Collingwood21 30.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Dewey: The Small-town Library-cat Who Touched the World - Vicki Myron