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07.03.08

How to Be Your Dog’s Best Friend

How to Be Your Dog’s Best Friend written by The Monks of New Skete is a pleasant, interesting, and informative training manuals for dog owners. We are gently taught why dogs do what they do and learn kindly ways to change their attitudes and behavior, as well as our own. The Monks of New Skete have been breeding and training German Shepherds in their quiet monastery in upper New York State for over forty years, as well as operating “a training and consultation program that is open to all breeds”. Understanding is the key.

– Anita Alvarez Williams, Boulevard, Calif. | Comments (one comment)

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1. Orlando | 07.09.08

Orlando Summer League

I read a book by the Monks on raising puppies and I now have 2 well-adjusted Boxers. Owners need to train their dogs properly about how to behave in the vicinity of other dogs and they also need to learn how to control their dog, even when it is exercising off the lead.

There’s a crying need for proper dog training and, to be fair, owners owe it to their dogs as well as other people to make sure they can handle them.

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