Customer Reviews

The Everything Golden Retriever Book: A Complete Guide to Raising, Training, and Caring for Your Golden (Everything Series)

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This book was much more thorough than the other books we looked at, especially the "Dummies" book. Maybe not as fun to read, but much more useful.

The author clearly has a great deal of knowledge and experience with golden's, but the book is extremely poorly written. The topics explored are very relevant and useful, but discussion was cosmetic at best. Nothing was ever described with enough detail to be useful. It felt like the author wrote the book over a weekend without putting any serious thought into what they wanted to discuss or convey.

This is an easy read, and lots of good tips. I would also recommend Golden Retrievers for Dummies, this has the most thorough information of any Golden Retriever book I have read.

This book contains a lot of facts and the information is conveyed concisely. This fact-based format makes it ideal for short multi-minute reads rather than reading from cover to cover.
I especially liked the information that educates you on what the Golden is thinking. This "get inside the dogs' head" approach helps emensely with understanding why they do/don't do what you expect and what to do about it...

Along with this book I ordered a couple of other Golden Retriever books, while all of them had valuable information, I found that Everything Golden Retriever had very useful instructions about the clicker training, which I was keen to learn. The text seemed to be answering exactly the questions I had at the exact right moment when I needed them. The layout of the information is most useful and easy to read.

I'm searching to buy a dog next year. This book fully met my expectations. If you are looking for a book to cover the basics this should do the trick. It has a little of everything, but doesn't go into much specifics. If you looking for guidance on training, health, grooming, etc. book get a book that strictly deals with this field. However, for a family planning on purchasing a dog and wants to go a little more indepth with the breed (i.e. I'm debating between a Golden Retriever and Labrador Retriever) this book is perfect. If you're reading this as a family (with kids) the illustrations aren't ideal for very young kids. It would be great for ages 10+.

We have owned ( although with a Golden the word doesn't seem appropriate ) many Golden Retrievers over the years of life with children and now grandchildren, and have found this book, which we only recently discovered, to be an excellent guide to this intelligent, enthusiastic breed of dog. We are giving it to our son and another friend who is adopting their first Golden, and we are also recommending it to our breeder to give with all puppies adopted ! The authors clearly love the breed's sensitive and loving nature and respect it with their training. ( We have opted not to use clickers but that doesn't negate the training tips in the least ) To train a Golden puppy is a labour of love itself, to be undertaken with the care in the manner described in this book, but then a worthwhile investment for the best companion we believe a family can have.

We just recently got a Golden Retriever puppy and thought this book would be extremely useful. It does have some valuable info in it, but some of the methods seems a little over the top. If you "click and treat" as many times as it's mentioned you won't have time to do anything else with your day.