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    Second-Hand Dog: How to Turn Yours into a First-Rate Pet
    Second-Hand Dog: How to Turn Yours into a First-Rate Pet
    Second-Hand Dog: How to Turn Yours into a First-Rate Pet
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    Second-Hand Dog: How to Turn Yours into a First-Rate Pet

    By Carol Lea Benjamin

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    Praise for Second-Hand Dog

    "At long last, the book all animal shelters have been waiting for is here: Carol Lea Benjamin's Second-Hand Dog." --Sue Sternberg ASPCA Report

    "...goes right to the heart of what it's all about..." --Barbara Dyer, Director Mt. Pleasant Animal Shelter

    "Benjamin writes with love and sensitivity about caring for pets 'adopted' from a shelter." --Publishers Weekly

    "...a solid training program...a great book." --Job Michael Evans, Dog Fancy

    "Why a book like this has never before been written is beyond me. It is an invaluable guide to rehabilitating those myriad unfortunate dogs which have either never had a home or have been shuttled from one owner to another, losing confidence, trust and self-esteem every step of the way. It is an absolute must for every owner who wants his second-hand dog to regain the ability to become the warm, loving companion every dog should be." --Kenneth A. Marden President, The American Kennel Club

    "...Carol Lea Benjamin has written a witty, sound and thoroughly appropriate book on the extraordinary advantages that each of us who has second-hand pets knows first-hand. If you're thinking about sharing your life with a pet or with another pet, read this book first!" --John F. Kullberg President ASPCA
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateApr 21, 2008
    ISBN9780470335215
    Second-Hand Dog: How to Turn Yours into a First-Rate Pet
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    Carol Lea Benjamin

    Carol Lea Benjamin is a noted author about, and trainer of, dogs. Her award-winning books on dog behavior and training include Mother Knows Best: The Natural Way to Train Your Dog, Second-Hand Dog, and Dog Training in Ten Minutes. A former detective, Benjamin blends her knowledge of dogs with her real-life experiences to create the Rachel Alexander mystery series. Recently honored by the International Association of Canine Professionals with election to their Hall of Fame, she lives in Greenwich Village with her husband and three dogs, Dexter, Flash, and Peep.

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      Second-Hand Dog - Carol Lea Benjamin

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      Dimitri - A True Story of Survival and Spirit

      Each fall when summer residents leave the country to go back home, each June when college students disappear rapidly after final exams, or simply when that darling Old English Sheepdog puppy bought on impulse in a pet shop shows his true colors (his adult size, his normal need for exercise, education, grooming and attention), dogs by the thousands are abandoned to fend for themselves like so many hairy hobos. Some wander around, growing more fearful by the day, until some mindless automobile puts them out of their misery. Some die slowly of disease or malnutrition. Unloved, uncared for, utterly abandoned, they forage in garbage cans and hunger for affection, a sad testimony to man’s indifference to the needs of animals we have made dependent on us.

      It is hard to believe, in a culture that worships the new and the shiny, that so tarnished and shopworn a specimen as a mistreated and abandoned dog could indeed become new and shiny again. But it can. This is the story of Dimitri.

      Sometime during the last Thanksgiving holiday, Dimitri crossed the path of a young photographer and her artist husband. It was, one can now say, an incredible stroke of luck for the hapless Shepherd. How long he had been wandering the streets of Brooklyn and from whence he came is anyone’s guess. On this night, when his fate changed radically, he was so ill that he was close to dying. Even externally, the picture was grim. The dog had a severe case of mange, so severe that, save a few hairs on his head, he was bald. His raw skin was full of sores and what appeared to be lash marks lined his sides. Paul and Cindy didn’t think long about the possible consequences of their action. They just could not leave the dog on the street.

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