Owning a dog brings pictures of joy into your heart. But that joy often disappears when your dog is unruly and untrained. Don't give up on your pet. Sandy Butler's positive reinforcement method is simple. Train Your Dog in One Hour takes you step-by-step through training sessions with your dog showing you how easy it is to do.

    A dog is everyone's best friend when he is trained and well-behaved. Training your dog must be a positive experience for you and your dog.

    Sandy Butler, a gifted animal trainer who has trained thousands of dogs, has made owning a dog a loving experience.

Reviews

    Sandy Butler's method of training has shown positive results almost immediately in a pet's behavior pattern. Her technique is based on communicating with a pet in a simple, straightforward manner. It has worked on pets previously thought to be untrainable. Now you will be able to train your dog with consistency, caring, and compassion.

    "Sandy has always had a heart for animals. Through her training, she has saved many animals from going to shelters because of behavior problems. She has a kind method that works!"

Nanci Suro,
Executive Director,
Max Fund, Denver, CO

    "Sandy Butler is a female Dr. Doolittle and her message is simple yet compelling; Animals have feelings and rights too! Sandy's first book is a literary tribute to our four-footed friends and their care. From our many radio conversations I conclude that Sandy Butler is the nation's leading advocate for animals."

Bill Smith, Creator/Host,
Wake-Up Williamsport,
WWPA Radio, Williamsport, PA

About The Author

    SANDY BUTLER has been training dogs and pot-bellied pigs for over thirty years. She has given clinics throughout the United States and appears regularly on radio and television, demonstrating her techniques for training pets in one hour or less. Her skills are in continuous demand by those whose dogs have been unreceptive to conventional training techniques. Her method is compassionate and caring.

Cloth, 205 pages, 6×9
$21.95 $16.47
Animals
ISBN 0-944435-45-9
LC 98-72111

    Dr. Witiak’s stories of the bond between the veterinarian, client, and pet take the reader into the exam room and on house calls to experience the laughable calamities, miscues, and surprises as well as the personal sorrows, revelations, and joys that treating animals can bring. This is a book of vignettes and personal commentary by a devoted veterinarian who is dedicated both to the science of his profession and to his personal belief in the importance of being loved and loving.

     Dr. Witiak makes readers laugh when he checks a small dog’s breath and gets bitten on the nose and then makes them cry when he hugs an old man who has just lost his faithful canine friend. The stories give the reader a deeper understanding of how the unconditional love of our animals enables us to love each other better.

     This is a joyous ride where readers bounce from one event to the other just like the veterinarian bounds from exam room to exam room — each with its own surprises. Readers discover just how organic caring is as Dr. Witiak works his magic, enjoying his tongue-in-cheek observations and self-deprecating humor along the way.

Reviews

     “Gene Witiak’s warmth as a vet, and a human being, comes through in these pages. Every pet owner and pet lover should own True Confessions.”

Jack McCallum,
Senior Writer,
Sports Illustrated

     “Dr. Witiak is a kindly vet who never met an animal he didn’t love. This book is about Dr. Gene’s special world of dogs and cats (and sometimes their owners) famous for doing the unexpected — four decades of great stories generated by dedicated service. I hope you enjoy this love story as much as I did.”

James Baum, President and CEO,
KETC-TV,
St. Louis , Missouri

     “With each paragraph, Dr. Witiak demonstrates not only the deep bond that he feels with each of his patients, but is able to share it in such a way that the reader feels it as well.
    “Dr. Witiak beautifully illustrates the love triangle that frequently forms between pet, owner, and veterinarian. Each tale he recounts leaves you with a feeling of closeness to people and pets you have never actually met.
    “Dr. Witiak shares his feelings about veterinary practice with such love that you are left feeling either that you wish you were a veterinarian or perhaps glad that you are one.
    “If you have ever taken a pet to the veterinarian’s office, or even if you haven’t, you will find this book to be a fascinating insight as to how the person on the other side of the examination table feels.”

Michael A. Obenski,
V.M.D., owner of Allentown Clinic for Cats and
writer for “dvm magazine”

“A book which gets into your heart. Gene Witiak is a remarkable man who has the ability to communicate with humor, sensitivity, and spirituality to humans and pets alike, for we are all his friends.”

The Rev. Dr. Douglas Caldwell,
Central Moravian Church

    “Delivered with his usual quirky sense of humor, Dr. Witiak’s stories reveal how his life has been enriched by these amazing animals and their owners. You can almost see the smile on his face as he recounts his favorite memories from the profession for which he’s had an undying love.”

Bill DeRonde, CEO,
Chainsaw Productions

About The Author

     GENE WITIAK, V.M.D., is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine, and has been a practicing veterinarian for over forty years. He founded, owned, operated, and after twenty-nine years, sold the Lehigh Valley Animal Hospital, which specializes in the care of small animals. He continues to practice there. For nine years, Dr. Witiak served on the Pennsylvania State Board of Veterinary Medicine, and has published articles for the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association.

Cloth 6X9
$21.95 $16.47
Medical/Animal
ISBN 0-944435-54-8
LC 2003115314