How to Raise the Perfect Dog

Through Puppyhood and Beyond

By: Melissa Jo Peltier, Cesar Millan

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins

Publisher's summary

For the millions of people every year who consider bringing a puppy into their lives - as well as those who have already brought a dog home - Cesar Millan, the preeminent dog behavior expert, says, "Yes, you can raise the perfect dog!" It all starts with the proper foundation in the early years. Here, Cesar tells you everything you need to know to create the best environment for a well-balanced dog in order to avoid behavior issues in the future, and shows you how to correct the most common behavior issues for young dogs.

Based on Cesar's own detailed experiences raising individual puppies from some of the most popular breeds, How to Raise the Perfect Dog is like having Cesar right beside you, as your own personal expert, coaching you and your dog from the first day of your life together.

Packed with new information aimed specifically at the particular needs of puppies and adolescents, and written in Cesar's friendly, accessible style, How to Raise the Perfect Dog answers all the most commonly asked questions and guides you towards a loving, satisfying life-long relationship with your best friend.

An Audible for Dogs Pick: Make your dog's day. Cesar Millan shares how audiobooks can make dogs happier and calmer. Learn more.

©2009 Cesar Millan (P)2009 Random House

Very Satisfied!

Our new puppy will join us in 3 weeks. How to Raise the Perfect Dog exceeded our expectations. We feel very equipped with bringing this puppy into our home. Cesar stressed for us that we are the ones who need the initial training so that, as a family, we can then successfully train our new pup.

OK

I believe Cesar Milan is a great dog trainer. Even though his show is heavily edited to show 'quick' results, his methods are solid. I was hoping for more from this book but was somewhat disappointed. Not all of us have a well-trained dog in our pack to help with raising a new pup/dog.

Not narrated by him and I would have preferred that.

Same basic stuff as his other books

He talks about how the three acceptable places to get a puppy are from a breeder, a shelter or on Petfinder. He then goes on to talk extensively about puppies that he got from perfect breeders who spend all their time and energy on their puppies. Puppies that you get from a shelter, you often don’t know what their history is and therefore don’t know that they’ve had the perfect upbringing. He doesn’t address this in this book.

In addition he talks about selecting a puppy based upon his personality.In his book he only selected calm submissive dogs to start. Often at a shelter it’s really impossible to tell what the dog is going to be like because of the environment there currently in. In summary it was a book about perfect dogs, raised in perfect environment by perfect breeders which is not really a realistic expectation for anybody who wants it to adopt a stray dog or a dog from a shelter.

Takes a few chapters to become helpful.

I was at first frustrated with the "story" centering around Cesar's puppies he was raising. it wasn't until a few chapters in that real advice started flowing.

Love the narrator's style

I feel overwhelmed about if I can to be the perfect puppy parent. Its a lot to take in.

Book for dog owners

Every single person who gets a dog should listen to this expert and their dog and owner will be much happier

Great resource for dog owners

Just got a new golden doodle puppy, and this audiobook was a huge help in preparing and training her.

A fantastic dog training resource! 

This book is an absolutely fantastic, dog training resource! I learned so much over the course of this book on how to interact and train my puppy. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone! 

Great book if you are looking to adopt your first puppy.

Cesar has a really good way for training puppy and it's easy to understand the steps to follow

Very good value

Any additional comments?

Let me say right off that this is not a simple "how to" guide. This is a window into understanding how a dog thinks. I've read other dog training books including "For the Love of a Dog" and this struck the hardest. I say this because it doesn't give you a set method. This is a book on teaching and like teaching children or adults even, every individual is different and requires a different approach. What this book gives you is a deeper understanding of how dogs thinks and from there you can and should develop your own approach. Cesar is lucky in knowing to choose mid-energy dogs, but the tools provided in this book is also perfectly applicable with higher energy dogs. The only difference is that it may take a tad bit more time with higher energy pus or dogs. Don't be discouraged. The energy thing really does work by the way.

It is always a joy to learn more about dogs.