The Good Life: Your Dog's First Year

by Mordecai Siegal, Matthew "Uncle Matty" Margolis, Tara Darling (Photographer)

A comprehensive, month-by-month guide to raising a happy and healthy puppy explains how puppies are much like human children and require similar parenting care, in a volume providing coverage of such topics as crate training, instructive play activities, behavioral problems, and housebreaking. 25,000 first printing.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published May 28, 2002

About the author

Mordecai Siegal authored numerous pet books and wrote pet columns for House Beautiful, Good Housekeeping, Women's World, and goodnewsforpets.com. Often the master of ceremonies at pet events, Mordecai was an entertaining public speaker as well as a writer.

Mr. Siegal had a caller-interview radio show, Vets and Pets, on WNYC.

He was a founding member of the Cat Writers' Association and president emeritus of the Dog Writers' Association of America (DWAA).

Reviews

[Rachel]

Lots of good info about feeding and health issues to look out for. Specifics about problem behaviors you might see at various ages and good ways to play during each age. Additional section at the end lays out a step by step training program.