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Designer Dogs (Animal Planet Pet Care Library)

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I have several books (both physical and electronic books) on poodles and a few others on dog training and care in general. This book has been the most helpful and useful to me. Great advice, user friendly format, covers a lot of ground, and is centered on giving your poodle the best care in general and the best care for poodles specifically. This reads like it was written by poodle owners and poodle lovers. I have two poodles, one a rescue with special needs, and I want to do all I can to give them a very long, very happy and very healthy life.

This is a great resource, and it also is a great motivator for me. There are some things I know I need to be doing every day -- like exercising them more and longer than I do. I exercise them every day, but this gave me great advice and motivation to do it better. A lot of this advice is common sense for poodle owners, but just because something is common sense doesn't mean you do it, and it helps to have it laid out for you in such a straightforward way. And it helped me understand why I was already doing certain things (like not letting them just run in the back yard, but always being with them outside so they have the human interaction they thrive on and really need). There is a DVD in the book I have, but I haven't watched it yet. I'll update my review when I do if it is especially helpful. This review is for the book, which out of all the books on poodles and dogs I have, is the best. I highly recommend it. My book cover is slightly different than the one pictured here (same wording, just with a white poodle on it), but it (like the book pictured) is written by Amy Fernandez. There is an earlier version of this book that is written by a different person. The book I have is the 2010 edition.

As a poodle owner and a poodle lover, I found Barron's Dog Bible on Poodles very helpful and a great tool to help me be an even better poodle owner. It covers everything from poodle history (nothing new there but always interesting) to "the mind of the poodle," "how to choose a poodle," puppy care info, "living with a poodle," health and nutrition info, training and exercise, travel safety, grooming, seniors, other poodle-specific issues and much more. This book also makes good use of pictures, and it organizes the information very logically. The book also includes "breed needs," "helpful hints," "fun facts", checklists, question lists, etc. -- boxes of helpful information summaries in the various sections that are also good reference tools. I like the way the information is presented. It's user friendly, which means I will make good (and more effective) use of it. This book is a great resource, and I am very glad I bought it (totally on a whim because I already had the other books).

This book was not helpful at all. Maybe we arent dummies. What we have learned has been not found in any books we have bought.