Essay: Understanding and Training Your Canine Companion - A Guide

This essay delves into the principles of building a strong and loving relationship with your canine companion, drawing upon the insights of the Monks of New Skete and their renowned training methods. It emphasizes the importance of understanding, kindness, and discipline in dog training, highlighting the 'How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend' manual as a key resource. The essay discusses various aspects of dog care, including breed selection, training techniques, grooming, and addressing behavioral issues, while also focusing on the significance of adapting care based on the dog's life stage and living environment. The essay concludes by advocating for a balanced approach to dog training that considers the emotional and behavioral needs of the dog, ultimately aiming to enhance the human-animal bond.

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How To be your dog's best friend
MARCH 16, 2020
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ESSAY 1
The dogs are most agreeable friends. A friendship with dog is depended on a fact that
how the owners use, admire and maintain discipline with understanding, kind-heartedness, and
loving at the time of providing training to dog. This is beautiful thing to make friendship
between dog and owner. For more than the quarter century, ‘How to Be Your Dog's Best
Friend’ has developed its standard against other books related to the training of dogs. It is best
training guide for the new generation of the owners of dogs to become best friends of them. This
essay discusses that How to be the best friend of your dog.
The monks of New Skete is supporter of viewpoint that "the understanding is considered
as fundamental aspect to interaction, consideration, and relationship" with the dog. The best
guide ‘How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend’ acts as exclusive, systematic obedience course and
appropriate method for complete care at all the stages of life of the dogs. It can see that Monks of
New Skete got popularity at the international level (Slater, 2018). Monks of New Skete became
breeders of German guides. It is known as outstanding trainer of dog of each breed.
Further, the unique strategy of training as well as development is depended on the notion
that "understanding is essential for maintaining better communication as well as relation with the
dog (O'Keefe, O'Keefe & Lavie, 2019). It can say that ‘How to Be Your Dog's Best
Friend’ contains almost all the aspects of living with and caring for the dogs, such as choosing
breed and gender of dog as per the lifestyle of owners, the place of getting or not to getting dog,
reading the pedigree as well as best training of the dog. It also contains aspects such as the
proper utilisation of admiration and self-control, way of grooming as well as feeding, making
sure the physical fitness of dogs, and identifying or correcting canine behavioural issues (Monks
of New Skete, 2014). It also makes focus on the specific issues of raising the dog in the living

ESSAY 2
area (city, town and country), and the appropriate methods for completing the care of pet at all
the stages of life (Seguin, 2017).
As per the above analysis, it can be concluded that ‘How to Be Your Dog's Best
Friend’ remains unrivalled as the fundamental training guide for the owner of dogs in term of the
clarity, authority, as well as scope. Like no other guide, this guide can be helpful for
understanding as well as appreciating nature along with different personality of the dogs. As per
this, one can meaningfully improve the life sharing with own dog. It is concluded that the owners
of dog should run the range of emotions and reactions in the attitude towards correcting the dog.
In this way, the owners of dogs should focus on the discipline in relation to the training of dog
and out righting of bad behaviour.

ESSAY 3
References
Monks of New Skete. (2014). How to be Your Dog's Best Friend: A Training Manual for Dog
Owners. Little, Brown and Company. USA: Routledge
O'Keefe, J. H., O'Keefe, E. L., & Lavie, C. J. (2019). The Human-Canine bond: a heart's best
Friend. Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes, 3(3), 249-250.
Seguin, B. (2017). canine soft tissue sarcomas: can Being a Dog’s Best Friend Help a
child?. Frontiers in oncology, 7, 285.
Slater, O. (2018). Does Every Dog Really Have Its Day: A Closer Look at the Inequity of Iowa's
Breed-Specific Legislation. Drake L. Rev., 66, 975.