The Well-Adjusted Dog: Dr. Dodman's Seven Steps to Lifelong Health and Happiness for Your Best Friend

One of the greatest myths in dog ownership is that once a puppy is housetrained and has graduated from a puppy training class, an owner's work is done. In fact, that work is just beginning.Drawing on some twenty-five years of clinical experience, Dr.Dodman offers what he calls "continuing education" for dogs and their owners. You will discover how much exercise your dog really needs (and why) how diet can affect behavior how to communicate clearly with your dog and understand dog body language how to lead your dog, not dominate him how to optimize your dog's environment how to address medical problems that might underlie unwanted behaviorDr.Dodman's comprehensive, seven-step approach takes on the whole doghis health, behavior, and environmentand lays the groundwork for the proper care and training of your best friend, for life.

NICHOLAS H. DODMAN is a world-renowned animal behaviorist. He is the author of The Dog Who Loved Too Much, The Cat Who Cried for Help, and Dogs Behaving Badly, and the editor of Puppy’s First Steps. Currently Dr. Dodman serves as director of the Animal Behavior Clinic at Tufts’s Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. He lives in Westboro, Massachusetts.