Complete Illustrated Guide to Dog Care [Hardcover]

Bruce Fogle DVM (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1999

This comprehensive guide provides practical information in order to help you know your dog. Internationally renowned veterinarian Bruce Fogle gives in-depth advice and insight into these animals' physical and psychological well-being. Topics include routine care, grooming, handling, breeding, training, emergency first aid, travelling with your pet, and communicating with your dog. Over 500 color photos and illustrations accompany the clear and informative text.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Thunder Bay Press (CA); FIRST EDITIION edition (August 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571451854
• ISBN-13: 978-1571451859
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,822,345 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Complete Illustrated Guide to Dog Care, April 10, 2000

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Melissa Wilson (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Complete Illustrated Guide to Dog Care (Hardcover)

This book is very informative. I just adopted a Miniature Schnauzer puppy, and he is my first dog. I didn't really know the in's and out's of dog training and behavior. When I read this book, I learned a lot. It is not only very comprehensive, but interesting. It also has a lot of pictures of dogs exhibiting certain behaviors, this makes it easy to follow along. I highly recommend this book to all dog lovers and owners.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Photographs, March 29, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Complete Illustrated Guide to Dog Care (Hardcover)

This book is a great source of information for new dog and puppy owners. It is very readable, very entertaining, and very informative. I bought it for the photographs, however. The photos are so expressive, and there is a great variety of breeds shown

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The very basic basics, and a little misinformation., August 29, 2005

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A.C. (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Complete Illustrated Guide to Dog Care (Hardcover)

If you know anything about dog behavior and interaction, this stuff is probably a boring review for you. The book was clearly intended for people who do not know how dog pack behavior works, what a dog rolling over means, how to tell when dogs are dominant and when submissive, etc. There's a little bit of everything in this book, which would seem convenient, but it's not nearly in depth enough for a lot it touches on, especially breeding.

My biggest beef with this book was a chart about halfway through which list major breeds and rates them as "low, medium, or high" in three areas: activity/excitability, aggression, and trainability. These are flawed categories. Excitability and activity are not the same thing. A pomeranian is easily excitable but needs nowhere near the exercize that a whippet, a very calm and docile dog, does. It lists many dogs as "low" in this category, such as the dalmation, doberman, Hungarian vizsla, and australian shepherd. Anyone who gets these dogs thinking they have low activity levels is bound for an unpleasant discovery. The aggression category is vague and unnecessary. One, we do not know if this means the dog is a good watchdog, receptive to guard dog training, or if is likely to attack the owner and her friends! Second, it reinforces stereotypes that certain breeds are somehow more naturally "vicious" than others. It should have NEVER been made a category. "Watchdog ability" is a much better choice. I dare not think someone would come away from this book thinking Great Danes are highly aggressive.

This is not the book to get to find what breed you want. It is not the book to get if you want to go in depth into dog nutrition or training. It is a book for someone completely clueless to thumb through, then put back on the library shelf.