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Metrodog: The Essential Guide to Raising Your Dog in the City

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But particularly helpful for those of us who take on the highly rewarding challenge of sharing our busy city lives with a canine companion. It may just make you want to grab your dog and move to the big city! Useful for ALL dog owners and a NECESSITY for urban dog owners. Great photographs. Accessible to the average dog owner but with interesting, unique information for seasoned dog-lovers.

I am a HUGE MetroDog fan. There's advice in there that I've NEVER seen anywhere else, and I have 2+ shelves worth of dog books in my house. Nowhere else discusses how to secure your dog safely while you grab a cup of coffee, or how to hail a cab with your dog, for example. One of the most *practical* books - and not just for city dwellers. Suburbanites without fenced yards or even just full-time workers will find much useful info.

Brian Kilcommons and Sarah Wilson, of course! OK, well, they didn't invent the idea of dogs living happily in urban areas, but they can show you how to raise your pup into a confident, social, well-exercised and happy pet in a teeming Metropolis. They do it by drawing on a combined thirty years of experience training dogs and their people. Much like their previous all-around dog-training book "Good Owners, Great Dogs," "Metrodog" offers tons of how-to know-how from dog trainers who (surprise!) can actually write! The book is a helpful compendium of training tips, photographs and anecdotal information. From solid content on how to select a dog for the city to things to teach it and simple instructions for doing them, this book is unlike most any you will have probably read about dog training. The authors focus on city life for dogs, and their positive, fun approach to training make it a must for city-dwelling canine-lovers. How on earth do you housetrain a dog when you live on the 35th floor? How hard is it to exercise a dog on busy sidewalks? What if I need to hail a cab (or take the subway) and I have a dog with me? These questions and more are concretely answered with several dashes of Sarah and Brian's trademark humor thrown in. They also cover selecting a trainer, destructive behaviors, the older dog, dealing with dog parks, dealing with different dog temperaments, and proofing your city canine to all manner of things you and he will encounter on the street. Even folks who live in suburbia will find much of interest here, for the behaviors covered are good for ALL dogs to know, even if you never plan on living on the 35th floor of anywhere. Just like on their website called GreatPets, Brian and Sarah share the best of their knowledge with us because they love dogs and what dogs bring to our lives. I highly recommend "Metrodog."

I thought I would like this book, and I did. I've read all of the authors' other books about dogs, and this one was right up to par. There was no resting on laurels!

Metrodog is invaluable for dog-owning city dwellers, but it's equally useful for dog owners in any location. The book begins with how to find the right dog, and ends with how to say good-bye to a faithful old friend. In between it covers housebreaking, food, manners, training, socialization, exercise, and health care, with hundreds of useful details discussed with the authors' customary savvy and humor.

For readers who are interested in learning how to successfully and happily share their lives with a dog, this is the book to read.

Thanks to this wonderful informative book, my dog and I have made a safe and happy transition from country woods to city streets without a problem. I loved the advice on elevator manners, taking taxis with your dog, behavior in stores and park, and the "distance down."

Not only is this book filled with helpful advice for raising a dog in the city, it is chock full of wonderful training advice for every dog everywhere. I highly recommend it.

Thank you Sarah and Brian, for this wonderful book, and thank you for your wonderful message board at greatpets.com

...this book is an excellent source for any dog owner. With their usual entertaining writing style, Brian Kilcommons and Sarah Wilson guide one through choosing a dog, housebreaking and training it. Their experience in dog training is extensive and it shows throughout the advice and tips in the book. We live in the suburbs, but have found this book tremendously helpful as we work our German Shepherd puppy towards being a therapy dog! ...

As a professional trainer living near Seattle I can't tell you what a gift this book is! And with rural areas becoming more crowded and "city" like it can be for every dog or anyone like me that travel with their dog. I live in the country, but my dogs are "city savvy" and so can all dogs with the help of this book.

I am also a therapy dog specialist and I volunteer with my dogs at hospitals and a new program called Reading With Rover at the King County Library in Bothell Washington. Anyone wanting to do therapy dog work should get Metro Dog as it's great advice for any dog and for those who want to volunteer with their dog in therapy work this book will get you and your dog going in the right direction.

The format of the book is easy, the wording is totally practical and any novice dog owner will appreciate this book and they should keep it by their nightstand. As with Kilcommons and Wilsons other books it's flare for humor and common sense advice is much appreciated. As anyone with a dog knows you have to have a sense of humor and the right attidude and this book will help you find it!

I'm only sorry I can rate this book with five stars as it deserves a 10!

Metrodog is an excellent resource for those living in the city who would love to include a dog in their life. It addresses many of the issues a dog owner might consider as well as many they probably haven't thought of. Even those who want a dog who live in a more rural area will benefit from the information provided in Metrodog. This is a valuable resource for anyone interested in improving the quality of life for their dog.

This is, by far, the best book I've ever read on dog training and behavior. I bought this book in anticipation of a dog that I am about to acquire. Absolutely everything is covered in this book. It makes everything seem so simple and easy. I can't think of anything that is not covered. I truly look forward to applying these techniques to the raising of my dog. I recommend this book to absolutely anyone that has or is thinking of getting a dog. Superb!!!

Title says all. This as information on training, and they have updated their meathods (from Good Owners, Great Dogs) and they are more open and flexable about tactics to train any breed.

Starting out with a new puppy can be daunting enough if you have a lovely, private backyard. When you're twenty stories above the new pup's "toilet" area, it can be frustrating, exhausting, confusing, messy, and did I mention frustrating?

In their new book "Metrodog" Brian Kilcommons and Sarah Wilson guide the dog owner through every aspect of living happily with a dog in any city on this planet. The information provided spans the life of a dog in the city, from puppyhood right on through adulthood.

Worried about leaving your dog home alone? Don't, because Metrodog has tons of information that will keep your dog safe and happy at home.

Afraid to take your dog to one of the city's public dog runs? Don't be! Reading Metrodog, you'll feel as though you've had a private tour of the busiest city dog runs. You'll be forearmed with tips that will help your dog and you fit in.

Dog training books can be dry. Not this one. It is such an easy read, enjoyable and with personal stories about the authors' dogs and real-life Metrodogs they've known. And, it is full of concrete information and facts, breed specific, age specific guidance and tons of photographs illustrating the prose.

Another dog book that won't just end up on my bookshelf. Metrodog is staying right out by my telephone for those emergency call I get from new dog owners who can't figure out how to get their puppy into the elevator, or back upstairs after their walk!