Customer Reviews

The Australian Cattle Dog: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet

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As a first time Australian Cattle Dog Owner we were unprepared at how to care for and deal with the cattle dog that adopted us. This book has lots of good information on caring for cattle dogs and is the only one that had information in it on leash breaking our dog. All in all an excellent book for people new to dogs and Australian cattle dogs in particular.

As a new owner of an ACD pup, I felt that I needed to know more information about the breed as a whole so that I could obtain insight on how to deal with my dog. This book was very informative and gave a good description of the ACD. I feel now that I better know how to handle my dog, but also how to make him the happiest. It gave great ideas on how to spend quality time with your dog using activites that they enjoy. I feel that our bond has definitely improved after reading this book. Read the book, get ready for some fun, and by all means go buy a can of tennis balls.

I enjoyed this book, but didn't realize until I received it that only half the book is devoted to ACDs. The other half is about dog/puppy care in general and seems to be universal to this series of books. Good information, just not specific to ACDs as I had hoped.

Lots of pictures of adorable ACD puppies, as well as full-grown dogs. Good information about techniques for keeping an ACD busy and active, too. Medium-size puppy Kong toys filled with kibble, peanut butter and topped with a treat have helped my ACD stay in her crate all night without complaint, and saved my sanity!

Another quibble, the book tends to assume that you selected your puppy from a reputable breeder. The author doesn't seem to acknowledge owners who rescue pups, who have found an ACD pup by chance, or who have a mixed-breed, part-ACD pup.

This book really covers the temperment of the breed. Offers training and what to expect of living with a cattledog. I had a hard time putting the book down.

I own an ACD and am interested to know as much as possible about this fascinating kind of dog, in terms of behaviour and peculiarities.
I have to say that, apart a couple of info in the first 3 chapters (roughly 35 pages), the rest of the book has only 20 good colour pictures of ACD and nothing else focused on this dog!
It is more a normal guide to a happy healthy dog than a book on ACD. It would have been much more correct to specify this general approach.
The price is right but this is not enough.

This book does have some good information in it but it was published in 1998. If I had known that I would have looked for a more recent publicatioin.

Kathy knows cattle dogs! This book tells it like it is and gives a really thorough review of what life is like with an ACD.