Your Child's Dog: How to Help Your Kids Care for Their Pets Book

Introduction

1. Can we get a dog?
   • What a dog owner provides
   • Right reasons for getting a puppy
   • Who will care for the puppy?
   • Doing your puppy research
   
   
2. Preparing for the puppy
   • Where to buy your new puppy
   • A puppy's place in the family hierarchy
   • It's a dog's world
   • A puppy's needs in his new home
   • Keeping your dog happy and healthy
   • Lessons in tolerance for children and dogs
   
   
3. The first few days
   • Creating a dog-proof zone
   • Welcome home to your new puppy!
   • Lifting and carrying a puppy
   • Too much smother love
   • Keeping the peace
   • Going to the vet
   
   
4. Routine matters
   • New sights and sounds
   • Getting some food for thought
   • A puppy's big brush off
   • Time for a bath and some fun!
   • Checkups from nose to tail
   • Having fun at puppy playtime
   • Getting ready to walk this way
   
   
5. Growing pains
   • Can you tell how a dog feels?
   • Working for treats and rewards
   • Dogs behaving badly
   • Dealing with tantrums and tears
   
   
6. Training for kids
   • Signing up for puppy school
   • Clicker training and beyond
   • Won't he come back?
   • Sitting pretty and waiting
   • Will he stay?
   • When a dog is down at heel
   • Roll over and die
   • Paws for thought
   • Fun and games for all the family
   • Agility training and flyball
   • Let's have a canine carnival
   • Dancing with dogs
   
   
7. Health and safety
   • Vaccinate andstay safe
   • Traffic safety on the roads
   • Problems with puppy passengers
   • How to be a yard explorer
   • Puppy safety all year round
   
   
8. What if?
   • When you need a little help
   • Flushing out housebreaking problems
   • Fussy eaters and greed guts
   • Encouraging bravery
   • Mediating child-dog relations
   • Saying goodbye and hello
   
   

Index

Acknowledgments