"A positive training guide to puppy training, this must-have guide is a "week by week training guide" for all new puppy owners. Focusing on the first eight weeks that a puppy spends in the new owner's home, Puppy Training walks the owner through the lessons to teach one week at a time, offering common sense solutions to obedience and housetraining problems along the way. Sidebars throughout the text offer useful tips and alternative methods on how to train a puppy and teach lessons. From the first week--during which the puppy is taught to sit and stay--to the eighth week--devoted to teach the puppy to retrieve and a trick or two--this puppy primer is the best canine educational tool available! New to this edition is updated and modernized content on housetraining, collar conditioning, human and canine roles, and terminology"-- Provided by publisher.