Reviews for This Book Will Change Your Dog's Life: Stimulating Canine Challenges to Ensure Every Dog Has Its Day

The average rating for This Book Will Change Your Dog's Life: Stimulating Canine Challenges to Ensure Every Dog Has Its Day based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-09-22 00:00:00 Patricia Deeck Okay maybe being a vet tech I'm ruining the fun here, but this book makes me nervous because some of the things I've had to deal with in emergency hospitals have been similar to the things mentioned in this book. Anyone with common sense will realize this book is just a silly collection of nonsense presented in a bubble gum way, but some of the things it directs are far from funny... a few examples: - Tie your dog's mouth shut when he barks, and then you bark instead. - Put your dog in a box and tie him up in it, see how long it takes him to get out. - Force your dog to sit somewhere for an hour with an e-collar on and put music on. - Put your dog's feet in concrete, or go to a construction site and do so (for that Hollywood splendor) - Get your dog drunk. - Take your dog near a road, and test your dog's sense of traffic by blind folding him. The goal is not to get run over. Not only will people do these things because they are stupid, but it is cruel and of course several of these things can kill your dog . I haven't been the only person to see it, it still happens, people duct taping their dog's mouth shut, ingesting materials left out or purposely put on the dog and not cleaned off (or should have not been there in the first place!!!), leaving on an e-collar and forgetting (oops) your dog can not drink or eat with it on, and dogs with no leashes near roads with cars can get hit (is this really necessary to say?). This book needs a disclaimer, and while I have met so many wonderful dog owners, there is about 10 bad owners for every 1... and they desperately need big bold letters to tell them "not to do this at home".

Review # 2 was written on 2011-08-15 00:00:00 Eric Pope It's cute, I'll give it that. Some of the editing needed work (What is this "Face Book" of which they write?) It's a great hodgepodge of graphic design, with lots of eye candy to look at. But after reading 300 or so of the days' activities, I have to admit I was just ready for the book to be over. Read in small doses is my advice.