Product Details

• Actors: Jeanne Carlson
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sound Dog Productions
• VHS Release Date: May 2, 1992
• Run Time: 56 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302409268
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,266 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Editorial Reviews

Monks Of New Skete-Dog Trainers/authors
..Excellent ... advice is behaviorally sound...ideas and exercises will lay a solid foundation for a trusting, balanced relationship...

American Kennel Club Gazette, Sept 89
Emphasis is handling the puppy as much as possible in a gentle, reassuring way. I liked this tape very much.

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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I am Jeanne Carlson the creator of Good Puppy., March 2, 1999

By A Customer

This hands-on video was created to help new puppy owners learn how to communicate effectively and gently with their new puppies, inorder to build trust and respect right from the start-from 7 weeks.

The first three lessons teach puppies to allow themselves to be held still and examined, and to be totally relaxed and trusting about the entire process. This is accomplished using gentle restraint and massage.

The Monks of New Skete,authors of The Art Of Raising a Puppy, were so impressed with these handling lessons, that they added a chapter to that book (called Lessons from the Pack), based on this video. They also told me they thought it was the missing link in dog training.

The first three lessons serve several vital purposes for your pup:

(1) It acts as dominance training, teaching your pup that you are the pack leader, and that you can be trusted in that role.

(2)Teaches your puppy to receive petting and touch without having to respond with nipping and mouthing. I often call it cuddle training!

(3)Prepares your puppy for the vet exam or for grooming by creating a dog who is relaxed about being restrained.

(4)Serves as bite prevention training - Dogs who have not been taught when young to accept restraint may bite the vet, groomer or owner when restrained as adults.

(5)Calming training - with this lesson, puppies learn to calm down under your hands. Then anytime you need to calm your pup, you can use these famiiar restraint and massage techniques and your pup will settle almost instantly. This can be used for the lifetime of your dog.

Subsequent lessons teach how to use your voice and hands, how dogs learn (showing interactions with mama dogs), toys and play, housebreaking, nipping and mouthing, jumping up, crate training, learning to be alone, and giving a dog a massage.

I use 10-12 puppies in the video, in actual training situations. Things are explained clearly and shown clearly, to give confidence to even the most inexperienced pup owner.

I have a stack of unsolicited letters of praise from satisfied pup owners who claim the techniques are wonderful and effective and gentle. Many letters comment on how much their children love the video and how it helps everyone in the family learn to work with their puppy correctly.

I also have a book available called Good Dogs, Bad Habits (available at amazon.com). The use of massage as a calming tool is also featured and taught in my book, which is an A-Z Guide to Behavior Problems.

I still do in-home dog training in Seattle, Wash. and am also available for phone consultations. Good luck with your new puppy!

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE BEST, MOST USEFUL PUPPY/DOG TRAINING I'VE EVER SEEN., March 10, 1999

By A Customer

The video is not only extremely useful, but fun to watch. The scenes with puppies and dogs are completely real and appliable to everyone's home. The trainer, Jeanne, has an amazing understanding of how dogs think and how to communicate with them through their canine behavior. I've seen her train, and it's incredible how she can get any dog to happily adjust to acceptable behavior, quickly and lovingly. If you have a new pup, and follow the video's suggestions, you'll have a well-behaved happy dog, as I do, having followed her advice all the time. As the pup grows, read her book, "Good Dogs, Bad Habits". It's full of easy to find solutions to dog problems, and funny too. Her training dog phone number is: 206-547-7877. ENJOY!!

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I'm no shrinking violet... but this video concerned me..., November 17, 2002

By	S. Ohmer (Alaskan Island) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have raised terriers all my life, so I'm no stranger to the need for dominance training, but this video demonstrated what I consider to be my past mistakes as the right way to train a young puppy. For example, slamming a hand sharply on a kennel door and yelling at a puppy to be quiet, or lecturing at length to a dog who clearly doesn't understand english--"What do you have? That is not a toy! Shame on you! Give me that! That is not yours. Don't you chew on that!" I would recommend the Monks of New Skete 3-video set instead. Their methods also include dominance training and ways to become the pack leader with your puppy, but their methods follow more closely standard behavioral techniques that seem more clear to the dog and more "centered" for the owner. Other people liked this video. Mine went in the garbage. I didn't even feel comfortable donating it to our local library.