The Good Boy's Guide to Being Good

Name: The Good Boy's Guide to Being Good
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9780711265943
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Master Your Humans and Live Your Best Puppin’ Life

By Brussels Sprout

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The Good Boy's Guide to Being Good by Brussels Sprout delves into the science and nature of positive behaviour, providing insights on what it means to be a "good boy" from a scientific perspective. The author explores various behavioural traits and their impacts, offering a light-hearted yet insightful journey into understanding morality and virtue through real-world examples and scientific findings. It's a unique blend of humour and education that examines how our actions affect the world around us.
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Format: Hardback

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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy: Exploring the intriguing blend of science and nature through a humorous and insightful lens, with a unique twist on behaviour and ethics. Brussels Sprout's playful style brings a fresh perspective, inviting readers to reflect on the world around them with curiosity and wit.

The Good Boy's Guide to Being Good is an entertaining collection of tips, tricks and wisdom to help raise a well-behaved puppy, written from the humorous point of view of Sprout the puppy.

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The Good Boy's Guide to Being Good is an entertaining account of a dog trying to understand humans and live his best life. Written from Sprout the dog's point of view, it uses humorous real-life anecdotes to provide a light-hearted take on how to raise a well-behaved dog, while offering simple, useful insight to help dog owners start down the right path.

Sprout's 'wisdom' covers understanding and successfully living alongside humans, progresses to navigating the outside world and learning manners, and culminates with a few simple yet unique tricks. Each tip is accompanied by a human translation to break down the actual principle Sprout is describing so that dog owners can apply the wisdom to their own pets.

A funny and irreverent look at how to look after your dog, The Good Boy's Guide to Being Good is the perfect gift for any dog owner, new or old, who wants a little insight into how to care for their canine companions.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780711265943

Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 12 April 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: White Lion Publishing

Illustration: 100 colour photos

Contributors:

Translated by Sigrid Neilson

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 175.0mm

Height: 175.0mm

Weight: 400g

Pages: 128

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Brussels Sprout Education & Reference Humour Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Sprout, the star of the critically-acclaimed Instagram account @Brussels.Sprout, is a perpetually-pouty, smooth-coated Brussels Griffon with a repertoire of over 30 tricks and cued behaviors. He enjoys long walkies on the beach, napping in the sun, and tennis balls. He has no idea what Instagram is. Sprout owns human Sigrid. A lawyer by day, @Brussels.Sprout is the creative outlet she never knew she needed, combining her life-long love of animals, learning and wit to inspire people and pups to bond through training. Sprout and Sigrid live in Manhattan, where you can find them playing fetchies in the park.