I Want A Puppy (Best Pets For Kids Book 4): I Want A, #4

By Jacquelyn Elnor Johnson

A Kid's guide to good care for pet puppies or dogs.

A lively, practical and fun how-to for kids about how to give loving, responsible care to a pet puppy or dog!

Is your family considering a puppy or dog as a new pet? Or did you just get one? Dogs can be a wonderful choice as a pet for kids and families.

They're smart, loyal and good companions, always happy to see you, ready to do whatever you're doing, and they can't wait to enjoy more treats and adventures!

But having a dog or a puppy isn't as easy as just picking one out and taking them home! Kids need to learn that with pet ownership comes responsibility.

This lively, fun and easy-to-read kids' dog book is full of information, tips and some surprising facts about puppies and dogs. It's designed to delight and inform young readers, telling them exactly what puppies and dogs need to be healthy, happy new friends and family members.

Readers will learn:

• Where to find your new puppy or dog.
• How to 'puppy-proof' your home.
• When's the best time to get a new pet and why?
• Which puppy to pick? Here's how to know you're getting a healthy pup.
• Bringing your new pet home and helping them settle in.
• What dogs should eat - and what puppies and dogs should never eat. Be careful, there are foods in your kitchen that are poisonous for dogs!
• Teaching your new pet basic good manners and dog tricks.
• Ideas for what to name your new pet!

This fun and easy-to-read dog book for children is full of information, tips and some surprising facts about puppies and dogs. Even if you think you already 'know' dogs, you'll find something you didn't already know in this book!

I Want A Puppy is the fourth book in the series Best Pets for Kids from Crimson Hill Books and promotes loving and responsible pet ownership and good care for healthy, happy pets and their families.

For ages 8 to 12 and/or Grades 4 and up.

A Chapter Book, fully Illustrated with 25 Color Photographs.

Suitable for libraries, home school and classroom teachers who want to build kids word power.

Fetch your copy today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Crimson Hill Books
• Release date: Mar 21, 2021
• ISBN: 9781989595879

Jacquelyn Elnor Johnson

Jacquelyn Elnor Johnson believes that to be happy, you need to know how to talk and how to listen clearly and effectively. With a Masters Degree in Journalism and Communications, she is a former teacher, reporter and magazine editor, editor and now writes books and is publisher of Crimson Hill Books.

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I Want A Puppy

2021 Edition

Tristan Pulsifer and

Jacquelyn Elnor Johnson

www.CrimsonHillBooks.com

© 2016, 2021 Crimson Hill Books/Crimson Hill Products Inc.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be copied, lent, excerpted or quoted except in very brief passages by a reviewer.

First edition, June 2017.

Second edition, January 2021.

Cataloguing in Publication Data

Pulsifer, Tristan | Johnson, Jacquelyn Elnor

I Want A Puppy | Best Pets For Kids Series

Description: Crimson Hill Books trade ebook edition | Nova Scotia, Canada

ISBN: 978-1-989595-87-9 (Ebook – Draft2Digital)

BISAC: JNF003060 Juvenile Nonfiction: Animals - Dogs |

JNF003170 Juvenile Nonfiction: Animals - Pets |

JNF051150 Juvenile Nonfiction: Science & Nature – Zoology

THEMA: WNGD - Dogs as pets |

YNNH1 - Children’s / Teenage general interest: Pets & pet care: dogs |

YNNH - Children’s / Teenage general interest: Pets & pet care

Record available at https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Pages/home.aspx 

Cover Photo: Ivonne Wierink, stockfresh.com

Book design: Jesse Johnson

We are pet owners, not veterinarians. Nothing included in this book is meant to serve as medical advice. If you suspect your pet is ill, please see your local vet. We accept no liability concerning your pet ownership.

Crimson Hill Books

(a division of)

Crimson Hill Products Inc.

Wolfville, Nova Scotia

Canada

Chapter One

What is it like to have a Puppy or a Dog?

This happy pup is enjoying a run at a dog park.

There are one billion pet dogs in the world. That’s one dog for every seven people alive today!

This means that millions of families have pet dogs.

Is your family one of them? Or are you reading this book because you really want a puppy or a dog?

If so, this book will tell you more about your puppy or dog, or the one you want, than you know right now.

Here’s what you’ll find in this book:

What it’s really like to have a puppy or dog

Where to find your new pet

How to puppy-proof your home

What your new pet needs to be healthy and happy

Teaching your puppy good manners

How to deal with ‘bad’ dog behaviour, and

Ideas for what to name your puppy.

What makes dogs so popular as pets?

Almost everywhere in the world, dogs are the most popular pet.

Maybe we love dogs because they’re so friendly. Dogs are always excited to see you.

Or it could be because they always want to do whatever you’re doing.

Dogs are always ready to play. Or just hang out with you and do whatever you are doing.

And they are just about always happy. Did you know that dogs are the only animal that knows how to smile at people?

Dogs are also the only animal that knows how to ‘read’ human body language. This includes expressions on people’s faces!

If you are happy, or sad, or worried, or afraid, your dog knows it. Dogs understand human emotions.

Some people think that pets look like their owners. What do you think about that?

Another special thing about having a pet dog is they can be good companions. Dogs raised to be pets enjoy being with people.

Dogs also like to be useful. They want to be helpful to people. Long ago, all dogs had jobs helping people. Today, most dogs are pets, though some still perform important jobs.

Dogs have special abilities to hear and smell. This means they can be trained to do jobs people can’t do.