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The Maltese: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet

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This is the best Maltese book I have seen and I've read them all. The author's love for the breed clearly comes through. I espeically loved the helpful grooming information and the insite on what this breed is all about. Definitely a 5 star book!!!

I've read a bunch of Maltese books, I don't know what exactly I am hoping to get out of them but I'm fairly dissapointed in all of them. This one however sits at the top of my heap. It wasn't too bad..theres lots of information about bread history, health problems and grooming. The major problem I find in all bread specific books is that there is only so much you can write about a breed, the rest of the book is made up of stuff that can be applied to all puppies and grown dogs (training, eating, vaccinations ect). This book has the same sort of section. I get the impression that the authors just replace the phrase "your dog" with "your maltese." But all in all this book did its best with the little information you can write about the matlese breed and I was pleased. My favorite section of the book was the one that outlined "leisure cuts" for this dogs, as most books go into great detail about coat length and top knots, it was refreshing to read about a grooming style that I am more interested in. Actually this is the only book I've read that has ever discussed the leisure cut. So in short I recommend this book to anyone interested in having a Maltese as a pet, it gives good advice on how to get you off to a good start

This book is one of the best I have seen on the Maltese breed, excellent grooming information, highly recommended. The author's love of the breed clearly shows through. I know Bobbie personally and she breeds marvelous Maltese; has breed a number of champions that are very nice.

A wonderful book by a Maltese Breeder who really knows and loves the Maltese BreedThe Maltese: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet

I recently bought this book with Maltese: A complete owner's manual by Barron's--and the "Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet" was a waste of money comparatively.

The "GUIDE" reads like a 5th grader's instruction manual. The author touches upon many useless topics to the new dog owner and seemingly knows little about the dog's ancestry.

Furthermore, the author advocates for positive-reinforcement training only while advising extreme caution against any type of negative reinforcement. This failure to recognize an important training technique for say, barking problems, illustrates this particular author's failure to address the basic dog owner's needs.

I found this book to be condescending at best and in most instances a poor reference. If you want to read a solid book about the Maltese breed, bypass this book and read Maltese: a complete owner's manual. I hope I've saved someone the time I wasted on this poor excuse for a dog book.