Customer Reviews

Australian Shepherds (Barron's Complete Pet Owner's Manuals)

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This book as LOTS of info on the Aussie like health/nutrition, basic training, history, behavior... well, like the title says! It has a neat chapter on the different activities you can do with your Aussies like different competitions. Another whole chapter on training for working and a very informative chapter on service training.

This would be a great little book to check out the breed to make sure you want an Aussie in the first place. Also, if you just adopted a puppy or adult and need some quick good info before you go off to buy that $45 Aussie book :)

It's easy reading for adults AND kids!

This book is well worth reading and is truly breed specific,unlike a few of the other books available which are merely generic puppy pamphlets with a few specific breed pictures thrown in. Worse yet,they dedicate much of the space to filler material such as thinly cloaked advertisements for certain dog products. This book keeps clear from all of this and is 100% pure beef!! I wouldn't feed my pup filler material;why should you pay for and read "sawdust"?

This is the best Austrailian shepred book ever from grooming to traing all filled with great stuff for you and your Aussie.

I recently adopted a miniature Australian shepherd and purchased this book as an inexpensive way to add breed-specific information to my library. However, my dog was already five years old when I adopted her, and I really felt that this book was more geared towards customers who are adopting purebred puppies. There is limited information about the habits and personality of the breed, and although the health information was okay, I don't feel it was worth purchasing this book for that information alone. And it doesn't contain any helpful information about the miniature version of the breed.

Still, for the price, it has some useful and interesting information, and I did learn a couple of things. I doubt I will reference it often but I don't mind having it in my collection. However, if I were to only pick one book about this breed, I would definitely select something more comprehensive.

If you are getting a purebred puppy, though, I would definitely recommend this as a good starting point. I still wouldn't consider it to be very comprehensive, but it will give you some good pointers on what traits to look for, what to avoid, and how to care for your new puppy.

I've bought several Aussie books and this one is definately the quickest and most efficient read. For the price, I'd say its the best one available. It's written so everyone can understand and easily find what they're looking for

This is an outstanding book that is chock-full of information and easy to read. It's easily worth 2 or 3 times what it's selling for. A must-have for anyone who owns (or is thinking about owning) an Aussie!

I have books on dog training and behavior but it wasn't until I read this book that I reallized I now owned something entirely different from my previous pets. Now we have bonded even better and he's finally getting the idea of what I want. This is an extremely energetic breed. Couch potatoes get something else or suffer.

This book was amazing for people thinking about getting an Australian Shepherd or for those already with an Aussie. I found this book to be very detailed and full of really usful information in an easy to read and understand way. My husband and I both read the book and we think it helped us to understand our puppy better and better train/raise her.

This book is a very handy resource! It is very thorough on the Australian Shepherd and I would recommend anybody that has one to read this book.

Disappointed, very general book. Most of the material could be about any dog with just a few chapters related to the Australian Shepherd. If you are looking for detailed information about the breed suggest you look someplace else.