Customer Reviews:
 good but not great August 5, 2008
This book is a good book to trouble shoot your dogs issues, but not very indepth, it does cover a wide range of problems but none particularly in depth. It's a good book for the general dog owner, but i feel could have covered each subject in more detail. It also doesn't always tell you what to do about the problem once you've found it. This book covers a quantity of problems, but lacks quality, i'd like to know more abbout each problem rather than skimming the surface and moving on the the next topic. Although this book is a good introduction to dog psychology type of subject matter and i would advise it for anyone who feels that standard training books are becoming repetitive, and wants a book that is more detailed in the reasons rather than just the cure.
 Touching, truthful and fun April 29, 2002
75 out of 76 found this review helpful
When reading this book you could be reading about your own dog, your friend's dog, your parent's old dog, or that dog up the road that really barks when you walk by. Fisher has caught them all to a tee. My only criticism was that it was maybe not practical enough, but it was certainly enlightening and educational. Both my colleague & I said after reading it, we now know why we have being doing it all wrong for all these years!
Essential for all dog owners July 22, 2001
59 out of 59 found this review helpful
Read this book and you will understand and love your dog even more. I have bought so many copies and loaned them to other doggie people never to see the book again, so be warned, if you buy it, DON'T lend it, just recommend it!
But I have one serious reservation June 29, 2001
72 out of 93 found this review helpful
John Fisher's book was written with a purpose: to make human beings more compassionate and understanding towards dogs. It succeeds in this brilliantly, except for one sentence, where he says that some of his clients get upset when he tells them that their dogs don't love them. Whether or not John is correct in his assertion - and many, even-non-sentimental, dog-owners would disagree with him - this is not helpful at all. Even in the mind of the most besotted dog-owner on the planet [me] this idea worked briefly as a mental irritant, making me subtly resentful of my dog for a few weeks after I had read it. Goodness knows, resentment of dogs is the last thing the author wished to encourage.I wrote to the publishers with this comment a year ago, and got a very kind reply from John Fisher's widow, after which I felt it was only respectful to drop the subject. However - I can't. It's been bugging me ever since. I really do believe, for the sake of John's legacy to dogs and dog-lovers, that the publishers should remove this short section of an otherwise wonderful book.
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