Hand med hund - Valpvardag

During your puppy’s first few years, there is a lot you can do to prevent future problems. It is a question of knowing what you have to look out for. It is important to establish a good base that helps your dog to deal with the difficulties and challenges it can come across later in life.

A structured upbringing with just a few rules and regular routines will give your growing puppy security and a firm footing in life – and lots of positive experience. If anything is missed out, particularly during the first few months when your puppy is still at the breeder’s, it can never be compensated completely. So if you are going to buy a puppy, you must be very careful about where you buy your new family member.

In Looking after your puppy – everyday tips, Yrsa Franzén-Görnerup gives the reader lots of practical advice on how you can make the right choice when buying and training your puppy. In regular sections entitled ‘Real life situations’ she shares with her readers her experiences with her own dogs, and other people’s dogs, positive as well as negative. There are also a number of ‘tips’ and ‘facts’ boxes, as well as pages where you can fill in details about your own puppy and follow how it develops.
The pedagogical approach in pictures and text is familiar to us from the previous books in the Hand med hund [Managing your dog] series.

Yrsa Franzén-Görnerup is a canine psychologist and instructor who has taught dog-owners since 1998; she worked first as an instructor in the Working Dog Club and in 1994 finished her training to become a canine psychologist. She then started her company, Hand med Hund AB and was soon working full-time with dog training and dealing with problem dogs. Nowadays, many vets refer problem dogs to Yrsa. For seven years, she advised readers about their dog problems in the magazine FIDO, and now she answers questions in the members’ magazine of the Skåne Kennel Club.