Cesar Millan's Guide to Bringing Home a Shelter Dog

By: Cesar Millan

Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto

Length: 1 hr and 9 mins

Publisher's summary

From the best-selling author and dog behavior expert comes the ultimate guide to bringing a shelter dog into your life and home.

Based on Cesar's own experiences rescuing and rehoming shelter dogs, this exclusive audiobook answers the most commonly asked questions about dog adoption and lays out everything you'll need to integrate a new canine companion into your home.

Whether you are a first-time adopter or have a household full of dogs already, Cesar Millan's Guide to Bringing Home a Shelter Dog is full of practical tips and illuminating insights on everything from choosing the right leash to housebreaking, from practicing basic commands to managing common misbehaviors.

Creating a happy, healthy environment starts the moment your dog walks through the door. Here, Cesar provides step-by-step instructions for introducing your dog to his new space and the pack he'll share it with and reveals two easy decisions you can make at the outset that could ultimately save your dog's life.

Currently, there are more than 3.3 million reasons to adopt a dog from a shelter in the United States alone. For the millions of people every year who choose this life-saving option - and the millions more who are considering it - Cesar Millan's Guide to Bringing Home a Shelter Dog is an essential resource for turning one of the biggest decisions of your life into one of the best.

As part of our new Audible for Dogs initiative, we've partnered with North Shore Animal League America, the world's largest no-kill animal rescue and adoption organization. In 2017, we’ll donate a dime for every download of Cesar Millan’s Guide to Bringing Home a Shelter Dog to North Shore Animal League America, up to $250,000 (with a minimum donation of $5,000). Download this free guide today to help support this important cause.

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Must read for understanding dogs

Plenty of good information is contained in this Audible guide. Most of us are familiar with the dog whisperer and he does share with the reader some sound advice. Free from Audible I took advantage of this work and having read it think that every dog owner or those considering adopting a dog should read this. Highly educational and well written.

Perfect quick guide

Step by step routines and schedules for you and your dog. Great advice on how to integrate a shelter dog into your home whether you already have a pack or not.

Helpful insights on shelter dogs

I learned a lot of things I will apply to the training of and relationship with my new dog. I only wish that Cesar read the book himself.

Good insights about shelter dogs.

Brief enough to review in 1 or 2 listens which is good if you are bringing home a new dog from the shelter. It’s a great reminder of the most important things to remember. It’s been a while since we brought a new dog home, but we have just done so after the loss of a 12 yo black lab mix that we loved very much.

Interesting good information

Dogs are an amazing gift from God. Caesar explains and describes dogs behavior and backs with logical theories and conclusions that you can totally mirror with humans families relationships.

Great information!

I already knew some of those information but it is always good to hear and there are definitely some new things I learned to that I did not consider before. All in all great listen.

great advice

I've been debating adoption of a shelter dog. This little book has helped to set me in a good direction.

Interesting

The instructions are easily explained & easily accomplished. I actually a lot about what I’m doing wrong.

Good stuff

We got 2 dogs from an animal rescue
This book helped us a lot
Give it a listen

First Few Days--Cesar Millan Style

Cesar Millan's Guide to Bringing Home a Shelter Dog covers the first few days of setting up your relationship with a dog, particularly one brought from a shelter who might have known inconsistency, maybe abuse, you never know.
It's a good guide, but keep in mind it goes by Millan's theory of doing all that you can do to be the alpha dog in the relationship. It promotes the 50-25-25 ratio that he goes by: 50% exercise, 25% discipline, and 25% affection, in that order. It's not about coddling, and always about remembering that your dog is a dog and doesn't care if it's wearing leather or rhinestones. And it's about keeping up the discipline bonding approach with obedience school training for both you and your dog/pup.
If you're looking for a more affection/bond-based approach to living with your new companion, I suggest looking into Jennifer Arnold's works that you can find here on Audible.
And no matter what... remember shelter dogs when you're looking for that special buddy to share your life with!