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The Chosen Puppy: How to Select and Raise a Great Puppy from an Animal Shelter |  | Author: Carol Lea Benjamin
Publisher: Howell Book House
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Pages: 96
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.3
ISBN: 0876054173
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.7
UPC: 021898054173
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ASIN: 0876054173
Publication Date: September 19, 1990
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When you adopt a shelter puppy, you acquire a loving companion and save a life at the same time. When enough dog lovers do the same, they create at least a partial solution to the pet overpopulation problem in the United States today. It staggers the mind to learn that over seven million dogs are received by shelters in this country annually. Of this figure, far too many are puppies, and for most the future is neither bright nor long. Mainly, this vast glut of surplus puppies happened because someone didn't care—about neutering or using a leash or closing gates or even about the quality of life for all living things. In The Chosen Puppy, author Carol Lea Benjamin offers a better understanding of the shelter puppy, why its needs are so special and what you must do to be sure the Chosen Puppy of your choice grows up well adjusted and happy. Here's how to temperament-test and select the right puppy for you; and here's how to train your Chosen Puppy and care for it, providing all the creature comforts it never may have had and the love it craves so much from those it comes to depend on. Ms. Benjamin understands all aspects of pet overpopulation and how to best help its most innocent victims. She tells why neutering is the hope of the future to curb and curtail a population explosion that never should have happened in the first place. Think of The Chosen Puppy as your guidebook through your shelter puppy's most important formative period and as a passport to the lifetime of joys awaiting you both.
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 Misleading statistics June 10, 2009
Dog Lover
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is good for getting one to adopt, but it is not helpful to exaggerate the statistics or use hyperbole to guilt people into adopting a dog from a shelter. We don't want to do that anymore as these animals just return to the shelter if the adoptor doesn't recognize how needy these older pets will be. You should only adopt when you have the basic knowledge needed to train a shelter dog. Out of 78 million pets in homes today an estimated 3.7 million cats and dogs will wind up in shelters to be euthanized in the United States annually. More feral cats by 2 to 1 than dogs in this total. Also, unlike shelter numbers in the 1960s, there are far fewer puppies being put to sleep today. There is a demand for puppies in many shelters. Many shelters in the U.S. have to bring in dogs from shelters in other parts of the country where shelters are still overcrowded. Thanks to the success of educational programs about spaying and neutering, an estimated 75 percent of owned dogs in the U.S. are spayed/neutered. Shelters and rescue groups also import several hundred thousand stray puppies and dogs from out of the country according to the US government to put up for adoption in the U.S. each year. This brings in new diseases not found in the US for both animals and humans. All of this means that the dogs that you find in animal shelters today are different from the dogs that you once found in shelters.
Many of the dogs in shelters today are there because they are owner turn-ins.
Here is a list from The National Council on Pet Population Study and Policy of the top 10 reasons given by people for surrendering their pets:
Requests for euthanasia because of 1. illness, 2. old age, 3. incontinence (16.1%)
4. Moving (7.3%) (especially soliders going to duty)
5. Found animal (of unknown origin) (6.6%)
6. Landlord will not allow pets (5.3%)
7. Owner has too many animals (4.8%)
8. Cost of maintenance of pets due to job loss (4.1%)
9. Allergies within the family (3.98%)
10. House soiling- unable to house train (3.37%)
 Yet another 5 star review April 24, 2007
Damon D (Rochester, NY USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I don't think this book could be any better. Here's my testimonial...
This book helped us identify a suitable puppy (and not just adopt the first one we fell in love with). The puppy we chose had serious discipline issues, but this book helped us retrain him. He grew to be an exemplary dog. Throughout his life, people asked us who had trained him. They were incredulous that our quiet, obedient, good-natured dog had once been a furniture-devouring, un-housebreakable, barking maniac that had TWICE been returned to the shelter before he was even six months old, and that we had retrained him ourselves. We owe a tremendous debt to this book.
The Chosen Puppy: How to select and raise a great puppy from an animal shelter September 11, 2005
Martha A. Tomek (Fox River Grove, IL USA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is a must for anyone looking to adopt a puppy. It is an easy read with humorous entries and cartoon type pictures. I keep it at hand and have used its information constantly.
excellent resource from a gifted author May 17, 2003
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a truly impressive book. All of her books have been easily accessible, informative, and entertaining. Benjamin is thoughtful and compassionate about her subject matter.
A wonderful resource! July 7, 2002
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book offers wonderful, realistic advice about choosing and raising a puppy from an animal shelter. I found it very informative, and recommend it to anyone wanting to adopt a puppy from the shelter where I work.
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