Customer Reviews

Border Collies (Barron's Complete Pet Owner's Manuals)

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Overall, I would say that this book is good, but nothing special. It does have good information on the Border Collie and their history as well as awesome pictures and illustrations. However, the book is mainly made up of general information on training, dog sports, nutrition, health, and breeding which could be found in many other books. I would have liked to see more specific information pertaining to the breed itself and/or herding.

This is a great book for first time Border Collie owners. We adopted a dog identified only as a Collie mix from our local shelter. After attending a pet expo and encountering some Border rescue people they insisted he was definitely a Border. I started looking for some books about Borders and after reading this one it really became clear that we do have a Border! I really appreciated the facts of some of the idiosyncrasies of this breed such as how they are not big eaters and how they are such escape artists, something our dog definitely proved in the first days that we had him! While this book doesn't go into great detail on advanced training it is perfect for first time owners and gives a lot of great information.

I adopted two border collies before I knew what I had gotten myself into. This book gave me a greater insight into the nature and mindset of the breed. If I had this book before I got my dogs, I would have saved myself some time and frustration. This is an excellent book, with practical information. It is straightforward and enjoyable to read.

As a Border Collie owner I found this book very informative and entertaining. The auther discussed all aspects of the Border Collies characteristics; herding,showing,obediance. He wrote about the origin of the dog,about breeding, some of the diseases they can get. I highly reccomend it to any Border Collie owner.

The information in this book was very helpful. It is simple to understand and gives you the up front techniques that a person needs to train a BC. I would recommend this book to any first owners of this breed. They are wonderful dogs and deserve the best care possible.

Even though I don't own a border collie, I want to someday, so that's why I bought this exceptional book. The information was excellent and clear, and this book had lots of color pictures and drawings . Because of this book I realized how much I didn't know about border collies, which was a lot. This book will make me a much better dog owner. I recommend this book to anyone who has a border collie or who wants one.

This was a very informitive and execellent souce of information about border collies.It helped me better understand my border collie. It has excellent color photos and shows many things to do with your dog.This Book made me a better owner and I hope you think so too.

Excellent book which taught me all I needed to know about my new Border Collie. Highly recommended.

This is a very interesting book with a lot of specific information about Border Collies. I have found it to be very helpful, and refer to it on a daily basis regarding the many questions I, as new owner of a BC, encounter when dealing with my young BC. These are very complex dogs, not to be taken on casually, and this book acknowledges their potential difficulties, but also their extreme intelligence and need to work.

This book is clearly written by a border collie lover. The photographs are good and have cute captions, there are a number of drawings of the dogs, and the issues of living with a border collie are straight-forward and informative. I loved this book. I keep returning to some of the pictures I enjoyed most.