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Several times over the years, I have written short articles explaining to breeders, vets, pet stores, trainers, and shelters/rescues how educating prospective and existing puppy/dog owners can be as easy as suggesting they Google 'Free Pup Books' to read and download. 

Since we believe a little education can make a huge impact you can still access these short articles and courses for FREE in the Free Course Collection here on DunbarAcademy, or by checking out the 'SIRIUS Initiative' on DogStarDaily.com.

Here is what you can learn by accessing these free courses and articles.

*OWNERS receive the requisite know-how to raise confident, good-natured, and well-behaved puppies/dogs who are never stressed, anxious, or fearful and get to stay in their original forever homes.

*BREEDERS may charge more for eight-week-old companion-quality puppies that they have already, housetrained, chew-toy trained, manners-trained (Sit Stay to greet people), raised in the home or an environmentally enriched kennel, and socialized with oodles of people. The OPEN PAW Minimal Mental Health Requirements for Puppies state that at least 100 unfamiliar people should handle and train puppies prior to eight weeks of age, parvo-safely in the kennel. (Outdoor shoes remain outside.) Once owners know a quality option exists, who would what to buy a bargain priced, or extremely expensive, puppy, that will likely pee and poop anywhere and everywhere, chew anything and everything, bark excessively, hyperactively jump on people, and is much more likely to become standoffish, shy, wary, and fearful of unfamiliar people and freak out at their own shadow?? Owners want a confident, mannerly, and well-behaved companion puppy, not livestock.

*VETERINARIANS enjoy the enviable opportunity of seeing puppy owners and their pups on several occasions starting at eight weeks of age and are best positioned to promote the Free Pup Books so that owners learn: 1. How to Prevent Predictable Behavior Problems and 2. How to Prevent Predictable Temperament Problems by acknowledging the sheer urgency of safely socializing their puppies with people at home. So, puppies grow into adult dogs that are not stressed by clinic visits, but thoroughly enjoy being restrained and examined (hugged and petted), so practitioners can get on with their job as veterinarians.

*PET STORES can promote the 'FreePupBooks' link to provide owners with 'instructions for use' for the products they sell. Most dog owners have no idea of the many uses of a dog crate, hollow chewtoys, or for that matter of the 101 Uses of a Piece of Kibble as food lures and rewards, for example, to teach puppies to Pee, Settle, or Shush on Cue, or to reward them for doing the right thing in the right place at the right time.

*DOG TRAINERS will quickly revert back to offering off-leash puppy classes to prevent incipient temperament problems, which is far easy, quicker, more effective, and a darn sight more enjoyable and with a lower burn-out rate than the time-consuming and extremely difficult task of resolving anxiety, stress, fear and aggression in adult dogs.

*SHELTERS/RESCUES would do well to embrace Kelly's notion of OPEN PAW's Shelter Behavior Program — that shelters should resemble a cross between a K9 University & Country Club and use an army of volunteers to make resident dogs more adoptable in the shortest amount of time. Of course, the 'training of resident dogs' is the 'trainer' that teaches volunteers in the community how to train more volunteers, and how to train their own dogs. And when shelters spread the word about the FreePupBook programme in their regular Newsletters, we'll be off and running and no time, all prospective and new puppy/dog owners in their community will get the puppydog husbandry information they need to raise good-natured, well-behaved, confident, lifelong, canine companions.