Cavalier King Charles Spaniel: Your Happy Healthy Pet [Hardcover]

Norma Moffat (Author)

Book Description

Series: Happy Healthy Pet | Publication Date: March 27, 2006

Your Happy Healthy Pet

The authoritative information and advice you need, illustrated throughout with full-color photographs--now revised and redesigned to be even more reader-friendly!

Cavalier King Charles Spaniels are equally at home in a castle or a condo, the city or the country. Elegant in appearance but energetic and affectionate in nature, they're the perfect companions for families with children, empty nesters, or retirees. This guide covers:
* Choosing your Cavalier
* Things you'll need to make your pup feel at home
* Feeding and grooming, including combing and checking the trademark ears
* Healthcare and the importance of regular exercise
* Training and housetraining your Cavalier
* Bonus chapters available on companion Web site


Lively, yet loving, your Cavalier will enjoy keeping you company, whether that entails bustling beside you on a walk or snuggling cozily on your lap!

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From the Back Cover

Your Happy Healthy Pet

The authoritative information and advice you need, illustrated throughout with full-color photographs—now revised and redesigned to be even more reader-friendly!

Cavalier King Charles Spaniels are equally at home in a castle or a condo, the city or the country. Elegant in appearance but energetic and affectionate in nature, they're the perfect companions for families with children, empty nesters, or retirees. This guide covers:

• Choosing your Cavalier
• Things you'll need to make your pup feel at home
• Feeding and grooming, including combing and checking the trademark ears
• Healthcare and the importance of regular exercise
• Training and housetraining your Cavalier
• Bonus chapters available on companion Web site

Lively, yet loving, your Cavalier will enjoy keeping you company, whether that entails bustling beside you on a walk or snuggling cozily on your lap!

About the Author

Norma Moffat bought her first Cavalier King Charles Spaniel as a pet in 1981 and fell in love with the sweet nature and glamorous look of the breed. Since then she has bred and shown more than sixty champions, some of them topwinning show dogs, under her kennel prefix of Brinklow, which is the name of her home village in England. Despite her success with Cavaliers in the ring, she emphasizes that all her dogs are beloved pets first and show dogs second.
Norma has written columns and articles on Cavaliers for the magazine Dogs in Canada. She is a life member of the Canadian Kennel Club and past president of the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club of Canada. She lives at Brinklow Hill, a ten-acre nature preserve in the woods on the beautiful Niagara Escarpment in Ontario, where the dogs have plenty of room to run and play.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Howell Book House; 2 edition (March 27, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471748234
• ISBN-13: 978-0471748236
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #467,666 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Top Quality, May 9, 2006

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D. Woods "skyfish" (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cavalier King Charles Spaniel: Your Happy Healthy Pet (Hardcover)

Norma Moffat, a breeder with a wealth of experience and knowledge, has written a small book full of excellent information not only about the history and temperament of the Cavalier, but also about the realistic work of finding a qualified breeder and caring for the dog from puppyhood. She includes detailed information about preparing for the puppy's arrival, feeding the Cavalier quality food at every age, grooming, avoiding diseases, training, housetraining, caring for a senior dog, and finding more resources for educating yourself. Moffat's writing makes for a quick and useful read, with enough specifics to make her book something of an instruction manual on how to be the pet owner Cavaliers so richly deserve.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Cavalier Book!!!, March 24, 2007

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Cavalier King Charles Spaniel: Your Happy Healthy Pet (Hardcover)

Wonderful book with lots of great Cavalier pictures. Good grooming guide. Tells about the temperment of the breed and history. Also includes a very helpful section on potty training. A must have for Cavalier lovers!!!!!!!!!!!!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Your Happy Healthy Pet Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, January 21, 2008

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C. Kohler (Wisconsin United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cavalier King Charles Spaniel: Your Happy Healthy Pet (Hardcover)

This is an excellent well rounded book written by someone who really knows and loves the breed. It is a hardcover with 144 pages of good information and great photos. If you are new to the breed and are getting only one book, this is the one to buy. It covers almost everything you can think of, although doesn't cover breeding much because serious breeders and exhibitors discourage people from breeding dogs, which they believe is best left to the people who know the breed standards and health concerns.