From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

Taking Care of
Puppy Business
A Gentle Approach for Positive Results
by Gail Pivar & Leslie Nelson
Tails-U-Win! Canine Center (175 Adams
St., Manchester, CT 06040), 1998.
74 pages, stapled. $11.50 inc. postage.

Gail Pivar and Leslie Nelson teach
puppy-rearing as a parenting skill. Most of
their advice makes sense to me. One recommendation,
reinforcing and rewarding bravery
(not to be confused with territoriality), seems
especially important but often overlooked as a
means of preventing future behavioral problems,
including fear-biting.
But, having never had a dog who
was younger than about six months old, I
solicited outside perspective on Taking Care of
Puppy Business from people who have raised
and trained hundreds, also using affirmative
rather than punitive approaches, and was surprised
at the strength of the negative response.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1999:

Girl On A Leash:
The Healing Power of Dogs
by Betty Lim King
Sanctuary Press (1114 Applegate Ct.,
Lenoir, NC 28645), 1999.
224 pages, paperback, $19.95.

“Every religious, racial, age, ethnic,
and gender group builds a wall to protect
what it believes sets it apart from other
groups and makes it superior,” Asian scholar
and dog rescuer Betty Lim King observes
toward the end of her memoir Girl On A
Leash. “Unfortunately, such verities and
myths not only exclude but often demean
those who are different.”

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