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| The Chosen Puppy: How to Select and Raise a Great Puppy from an Animal Shelter | 
 enlarge | Author: Carol Lea Benjamin
Publisher: Howell Book House
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 818328
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 96
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.3
ISBN: 0876054173
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.7
UPC: 021898054173
EAN: 9780876054178
ASIN: 0876054173
Publication Date: September 19, 1990
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Condition: Good condition, wear from reading and use. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact and has some creases. The spine has signs of wear and creases. This copy may include "From the library of" labels, stickers or stamps and be an ex-library copy.
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Product Description
When you adopt a shelter puppy, you acquire a loving companion and save a life at the same time. When enough dog lovers do the same, they create at least a partial solution to the pet overpopulation problem in the United States today. It staggers the mind to learn that over seven million dogs are received by shelters in this country annually. Of this figure, far too many are puppies, and for most the future is neither bright nor long. Mainly, this vast glut of surplus puppies happened because someone didn't care—about neutering or using a leash or closing gates or even about the quality of life for all living things. In The Chosen Puppy, author Carol Lea Benjamin offers a better understanding of the shelter puppy, why its needs are so special and what you must do to be sure the Chosen Puppy of your choice grows up well adjusted and happy. Here's how to temperament-test and select the right puppy for you; and here's how to train your Chosen Puppy and care for it, providing all the creature comforts it never may have had and the love it craves so much from those it comes to depend on. Ms. Benjamin understands all aspects of pet overpopulation and how to best help its most innocent victims. She tells why neutering is the hope of the future to curb and curtail a population explosion that never should have happened in the first place. Think of The Chosen Puppy as your guidebook through your shelter puppy's most important formative period and as a passport to the lifetime of joys awaiting you both.
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Yet another 5 star review April 24, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I don't think this book could be any better. Here's my testimonial...
This book helped us identify a suitable puppy (and not just adopt the first one we fell in love with). The puppy we chose had serious discipline issues, but this book helped us retrain him. He grew to be an exemplary dog. Throughout his life, people asked us who had trained him. They were incredulous that our quiet, obedient, good-natured dog had once been a furniture-devouring, un-housebreakable, barking maniac that had TWICE been returned to the shelter before he was even six months old, and that we had retrained him ourselves. We owe a tremendous debt to this book.
The Chosen Puppy: How to select and raise a great puppy from an animal shelter September 11, 2005
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is a must for anyone looking to adopt a puppy. It is an easy read with humorous entries and cartoon type pictures. I keep it at hand and have used its information constantly.
excellent resource from a gifted author May 17, 2003
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a truly impressive book. All of her books have been easily accessible, informative, and entertaining. Benjamin is thoughtful and compassionate about her subject matter.
A wonderful resource! July 7, 2002
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book offers wonderful, realistic advice about choosing and raising a puppy from an animal shelter. I found it very informative, and recommend it to anyone wanting to adopt a puppy from the shelter where I work.
valuable information for first time puppy owners January 19, 2000
27 out of 29 found this review helpful
I adopted a 8-week-old puppy from Humane Society and being a first time dog owner, this book is very helpful with my raising my puppy. In a month, she will be 4 years old and as a puppy, she was a GREAT puppy and today, as a dog, she is a GREAT dog! The other people have commented to me how well-behaved my dog was when she was puppy. Today, people still tell me how smart and well behaved my dog is. Well, it's all due to that book.
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