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Your Baby and Bowser |  | Authors: Stephen C. Rafe, Kathy Murphy Dunn
Publisher: Alpine Blue Ribbon Books
Category: Book
List Price: $9.95
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 514381
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Pages: 104
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.3
ISBN: 1577790456
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.7
EAN: 9781577790457
ASIN: 1577790456
Publication Date: August 2004
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Product Description
Do you want to know how to prepare your family dog for the arrival of a new baby? Would you like your dog to be well-behaved around your grandchildren or the neighbors kids? Are you thinking about buying a dog but concerned about the safety of your children? Parents who read and follow Rafes advice will be infinitely more successful in raising children and dogs together. Learn how to establish dominance, understand your dogs way of thinking, adequately prepare a dog for a new child, how your personality affects your dogs behavior, and the key things every child needs to be taught about dogs. Make sure children are safe around your dog. Order a copy today!
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| Customer Reviews:
 Ordinary - there are better guides. November 9, 2009
The Dog Diva (USA)
I should have expected that this would not be a wonderful guide. This is the same guy who presumably wrote in to Off Lead magazine that his remedy for prey driven dogs was to feed them something that would make them vomit within a few moments, then leave them alone in a room with the caged prey animal so that the dog would associate vomiting with the animal, and therefore leave it alone in the future. Good lord, is that what he means by positive training??? Anyway, this book is not as good as two others that I highly recommend for parents - the first is by Coleen Pelar, "How to Live With Kids and Dogs Without Losing Your Mind" and the second is "Raising Puppies and Kids Together" by Pia Sylvani and Linda Eckhardt. The Dogs and Storks Program is also excellent.
 I know Kathy Murphy Dunn trains dogs, but I didn't know she is an excellent artist too!!!! December 27, 2008
S. Smith (Germantown, TN United States)
Very good book. The illustrations are darling. I bought this book in Nov 2007 since my daughter and her husband blessed me with my first grandchild. They have 2 dogs at their house and I have 2 at mine.
Very good April 26, 2008
SCS
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very good, though really designed for a couple who already has a dog and is adding the baby. I was hoping to learn about having a baby and then getting the dog.
Very good April 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very good, though really designed for a couple who already has a dog and is adding the baby. I was hoping to learn about having a baby and then getting the dog.
Your Baby and Bowser July 15, 2007
Tami Brady (Calgary, Canada)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Your Baby and Bowser is a non-disciplinarian guide to avoiding potential problems between your dog and your child or grandchild. Small children tend to bring out the best and the worst of dogs. Children may unknowing startle a sleeping or eating dog. Caught unaware, even the best trained dog might react by growling or biting. The crying and flailing of infants may resemble prey behaviours or behaviours of a sick pup. In these cases, the dog may feel the need to stalk or play with the prey. Alternately, the animal may try to comfort the child or drag it to safety. Since dogs use their teeth to undertake these tasks, risk of injury is possible.
The author states that there are several important keys to avoiding potential accidents caused by natural dog behaviours such as chewing, biting, jumping, scratching, and stalking. One of these important keys is good training and proper dog handling. Another important key is socializing preparation before your child actually comes home. By far, however, it is important that your dog and child never be left alone together.
Your Baby and Bowser is an extremely well written, organized guide. This book details potential issues that can potentially occur between children and dogs. Furthermore, the author explains how many of these disasters are simply due to natural dog behaviours. Thus, such incidents are not normally the result of a premeditated, vicious attack by a bad dog. Moreover, the author explains how the dog owner can not only understand and identify these potential behaviours but also use this newfound knowledge to protect both the dog and the child. This book even contains details easy to use step by step training and includes various intuitive problem solving techniques.
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