How to Raise the Perfect Dog

Through Puppyhood and Beyond

By: Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier

Narrated by: Cesar Millan

Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins

Publisher's summary

From the best-selling author and star of National Geographic Channel's Dog Whisperer, the only resource you’ll need for raising a happy, healthy dog. 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.

Number one New York Times best-selling author, Cesar Millan, shows you how to raise the perfect dog and prevent behavior issues before they start, including:

• What to expect from each stage of your puppy's development
• Quick and easy housebreaking
• The essentials of proper nutrition
• The importance of vaccinating - and of not over-vaccinating
• Creating perfect obedience from day one through rules, boundaries, and calm-assertive leadership
• How to avoid the most common mistakes owners make raising puppies and young dogs
• How to correct any issue before it becomes a problem
• Unique exercises and play to bring out the best in every breed

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

Critic reviews

"Millan's wizardlike facility with dogs - the calm he brings to them, the confident way he handles them - is mind-blowing." ( Newsweek)
"[Millan] arrives amid canine chaos and leaves behind peace." (Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker)

Thank you Caesar.

Fantastic book for anyone serious about raising a new puppy properly.
Great tips and insight.

Great book

Love the way he explain about dogs! For me it was a must have since I am a first time dog owner! I learned a lot!!!

Great book about raising a puppy

Enjoyed hearing Cesar's tips for guiding owners through puppyhood. Would definitely recommend listening to it before getting a puppy of your own!

Excellent Information

I love the Dog Whisperer show and the books are great. I'm getting a new puppy in 4 weeks and I feel less trepidation about this one than I did about the last because I have an idea how to raise him right. I'll definitely be reading this again a couple times before my puppy comes home.

awesome! loved it!

I loved it! wish I would have gotten this book before the puppy. too late!

READ BEFORE YOU PICK YOUR BREED AND PUP. Great book and I recommend Cesar as Narrator

Great book for all ages. If your kid hasn’t read this book and you Haba puppy it’s not too late but hurry!

loved it

very helpful and easy to take in. glad it was cesar narrating. i highly recommend it.

Excellent for arrested development in adult Rescue

Recommended to my old friend getting a new puppy. Actually I am hounding her to get this book before her puppy is born. Can't say enough. How about I only got this book after many puppy experiences that I wish I had read this book first for. But happy - thrilled to read it now while I have been in the planning , preparation, and honeymoon phases of my first Rescue dog. If I could only meet Ceasar, who has blest us so much, I would suggest he amend this book to include young adult rescue dogs. Since, like the battered men and women I work with, they have been arrested in emotional growth from the time their abuse began. So a good 80% of this book is valuable in rehabilitating Adult Rescue Puppies!

Everyone should listen to this before getting a pu

The information in this book is so valuable. As a dog trainer, I wish that everyone would listen to this before getting a puppy!

Cesar is a reader of Daniel Goleman That's how he

Cesar Millan is the greatest thing since the napkin. He has taken the concept of mindfulness and brought to the animal world. Just in time too. I have used mindfulness skills to keep my own life in order and I was quick to see that he too has read Daniel Goleman's books on Mindfulness skills, or as Cesar puts it, " staying in the moment because that's how animals live everyday ." Cesar then applies this staying in the moment thinking in his work for people to better understand how your dogs mind functions. He also breaks it down for the " people " to be able to get a clear message on what and where they need to be in their thinking when their with their pets in various situations. When talking to people in his seminars Cesar is using his mindfulness skills all the time to keep the people in the moment with him. He will save not only dogs in his life but many many people too. Spread the word Cesar Millan. Denise