Customer Reviews

Doberman Pinscher (Comprehensive Owner's Guide)

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This book contains a horrible misrepresentation of the process of cropping a doberman's ears. Ear cropping is done between 7-12 weeks old, not 2-5 days as the book states in the caption of a picture depicting ear cropping. The picture shows someone holding a young fully awake puppy with a pair of SCISSORS next to his ears! Cropping is properly done in a vet's office under anesthesia.

I feel that this book could encourage people to try to crop their own puppy's ears--cruel ignorant folks who are too cheap to pay a vet for his work have already been known to use this horrifying technique on their own kitchen table--we don't need any more people trying it.

If this page is an example of the quality of the rest of the book--run away! That one page is so extremely harmful that it outweighs the possible value of the rest of the book.

I wish I could give the book negative stars. Agreed with the prior reviewer that the ear cropping photo with scissors is horrifying. I cannot believe that anyone with a fraction of knowledge of the breed, or of dogs at all would include such a photo in an informational Doberman book. Ear cropping is a SURGICAL procedure done by a qualified veterinarian. Only abusive heartless lowlives even contemplate taking scissors to a puppy's ear.

It truly blows my mind that this would get past the editing process during publishing. If such a huge error got through, with the potential to steer uneducated folks in an exceedingly cruel direction, what else made it in here?

Disgusting.

Honestly, ears are a major factor in owning a dobe, cropped or natural. If the authors did not bother to get the information straight on this detail, then the rest of the book cannot be trusted.

keep looking folks. This book is a work of fiction.

This AKC based book is typical of AKC. They don't agree with white dobermans but yet in one of the pictures it sure looks like a white doberman. Not to mention it seems like they just cut and pasted the breed name. Like when they talk about a dobermans nails shouldn't clip on the ground when walking. If so they need to be trimmed. Well if any of you know anything about dobermans I surely hope the nails never even get close to "clicking" on the floor because of the way dobermans nails grow. They come higher out on the toe than many other breeds. Enough about that but it seems like they gave either false or generic information about the breed. Don't get me wrong I do agree with some things AKC preaches about. But the book overall was a disappointment.

BOUGHT THIS FOR MY BROTHER. THEY LOVE THIS DOG! FROM THE KENNEL CLUB SO YOU KNOW THEY KNOW ALL ABOUT THIS.LOTS OFF PICS AND GOOD FOR TABLE BOOK.

This is an AWESOME book, very informative. All the "Kennel Club" Series books are I have several of them, However mine came with writing in the very back of the book