{"title":"Kathy Callahan","description":"Dog trainer Kathy Callahan,  CPDT-KA, FDM,  and her family have fostered more than 200 puppies in the past decade, and her dog training business, PupStart, focuses on puppyhood. Kathy is the author of 101 Rescue Puppies and writes regularly for Whole Dog Journal on training and behavior.","products":[{"product_id":"welcoming-your-puppy-from-planet-dog-how-to-go-beyond-training-and-raise-your-best-friend-paperback","title":"Welcoming Your Puppy from Planet Dog: How to Go Beyond Training and Raise Your Best Friend - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWritten in a fresh, warm voice loaded with empathy, \u003ci\u003eWelcoming Your Puppy from Planet Dog \u003c\/i\u003elights the path to a relaxed, happy interspecies household\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"I truly LOVE this book. If I were . . . getting a new puppy, I'd read it twice, and still keep it within reach every day.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-- Dr. Patricia McConnell, \u003c\/b\u003eapplied animal behaviorist, speaker, and author of\u003ci\u003e The Other End of the Leash \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Puppy Primer \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter a decade of guiding people who've just added a puppy to the family, dog trainer Kathy Callahan has learned a fundamental truth: at some point every one of them feels overwhelmed. 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