Collie (Comprehensive Owner's Guide) [Hardcover]

Samantha Moore (Author)

Book Description

Series: Comprehensive Owner's Guide | Publication Date: March 1, 2004

Originally designed to be an intelligent, robust working dog, today’s Collie, whether clad in its soft, furry Rough coat or in its dense Smooth coat, is a beautiful, appealing dog with a sweet, dignified expression. The Collie excels as an obedient, instantly trainable dog with a near-human personality and devotion to humankind that is second to none. As a companion for a family with children, the Collie has no rival: start the camera rolling, the Collie is the nanny of the dog world, the most loyal friend any child could dream of.

Illustrated with over 135 color photographs, this introductory guide provides discussions on breed history, characteristics and standard, as well as puppy selection, feeding, grooming, obedience training, preventative health care and showing. The new owner will welcome advice about puppy-proofing the home, preparing for the pup’s arrival, housebreaking and preventing puppy problems. Helpful hints and important information are highlighted to provide easy access to everything the reader needs to know about life with a Collie from puppyhood to the senior years.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Kennel Club Books (March 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1593782411
• ISBN-13: 978-1593782412
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #606,603 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Awful book, full of misinformation, August 14, 2005

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Loves to Knit "BB" (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Collie (Comprehensive Owner's Guide) (Hardcover)

I purchased this book because I own a Collie. I am dismayed at the amount of misinformation and disinformation contained within this book. The book is poorly written in parts, which creates contradictions from chapter to chapter. A novice would not be able to purchase and care for a Collie based on the information as it is presented.

I am convinced that the author never owned a Collie, nor even spent much time with one. The author states that the Collie requires more exercise than most breeds; this simply is not so. The Border Collie does, but not the Scotch Collie. It requires exercise, to be sure, and it is a large breed dog, but it is less active than a Parson Russell Terrier half its size.

The author is most egregious in the health chapters. The author is pushing a personal agenda that is not only dangerous for the dog, but could result in a dog being impounded by municipal animal control. In one sidebar, the author recommends against monthly treatment with a heartworm preventive, yet almost every municipality (or breeder contract, or adoption/rescue contract) requires the treatment with vermifuge. The author refers to the medicine as "poison" (does she even know that Ivermectin is used in people?) and recommends using the vermifuge every other month or every three months. A dog in poor health due to heartworms may be removed from its owner by local human authorities, and unfortunately, at this stage the treatment may very well kill the dog (the dying worms put the dog into shock). The author also recommends that in place of conventional veterinary medicine (again, see stipulations regarding dog health that originate from municipalities and contracts) owners should use homeopathic nostrums, which are nothing but water (something diluted millions or billions of times in water is water; someone who had only high school chemistry can tell you that). She also recommends against the use of prescribed flea and tick preventives, yet never mentions Lyme disease by name (although she identifies the bacterium that causes it). Lyme disease is a menace to people as well as to dogs, and the use of Frontline Plus or something similar on the dog is essential throughout the US.
Yet, she does not mention that the Collie breed is sensitive to certain medicines. Collies are prescribed a non-Ivermectin vermifuge (mine gets Interceptor), Colies should not be given Pepto-Bismol or other bismuth-based anti-diarrheal medicines, and so forth (great information is available on the Collie Health Foundation website, which is not mentioned).

Buy the Collie Concept by Bobbee Roos, it remains the standard book on the Collie breed.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Visuals, July 8, 2006

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Donna M. Shum "Donna" (Hawthorn Woods, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Collie (Comprehensive Owner's Guide) (Hardcover)

I own two rough collies, a tri-colored and a blue merle. This book had great photographs and information regarding the collie. It has great information on plants that collies should stay away from such as the common daisy. Also, it praises the crate method, something I was against until I tried it with the collies and determined they love having their own space.

This book is full of good information about every aspect of owning a collie.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Info, October 26, 2006

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Anna Boyko (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Collie (Hardcover)

The book has great photographs very informative, it has lot of important information well organizet easy to read and understand. I found the information I needed for the problems that can be prevented from puppyhood through senior years. Is very practical informative and still fun to read.