ABOUT THE BOOK
A simple, seven-step system to housetrain any dog of any age, breed or background.
Housetraining is easy, right? Just take them out regularly and praise them when they go and they’ll eventually get the idea. Easy! Until it doesn’t work…
Whether you’re about to bring home a brand-new puppy or you’ve just adopted a shelter dog who has never set foot inside a house, a solid understanding of dog behaviour is essential to your success.
Housetraining is often glossed over as something to just get through before real training begins, but this first venture into learning sets the tone for your relationship. With just a few simple tweaks, teaching this one core behaviour can uncover hidden learning opportunities in every potty run and form the foundation for all your future training goals.
Dodge the pitfalls, prevent relapses and build a lifelong bond based on love and trust.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Zoë MacBean is an eclectic trainer of some 35+ years experience and has never met a stubborn dog – just a whole bunch that were reliable about the wrong things. She’s a bit eccentric, perennially scruffy and was pretty much raised in a college psychology lab (which probably explains a lot). When she isn’t training dogs, she’s either cooking, gardening or having hay picked out of her hair by her very patient husband.
Zoë decided at age seven to be a trainer and can still remember exactly where she was standing in the school library when she realized that was an option. She studied, volunteered, washed dogs, scooped poop and became a trainer about ten years later. Other than a year off to work with horses and a brief stint in the reserves, training is how she’s earned her keep since then – so she’s pretty much still doing all those things.
She lives on a small farm on Vancouver Island with a weird little blue dog, a foolish young setter, three lazy, semi-retired pack goats, too many sheep and a very handsome mule.