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Rhodesian Ridgeback (Comprehensive Owner's Guide)

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If you are looking to get a RR, I highly recommend this book! It gives you all you need to know about the breed and it also includes some training and health issues in regards to the breed. A friend of mine gave me a book on puppy training and I read it for a week prior to getting our RR puppy. It was a good book, but I felt that it lacked the 'character' training needed for this particular breed. So I ordered this book along with another book (Rhodesian Ridgebacks (Complete Pet Owner's Manual)) and read both. I found this book to be great and it answered most of my questions in regards to the RR breed. It covered the history, how to choose the proper RR for you as a puppy, it talked about how to select a RR puppy and it included training as well as health issues.
This book has plenty of pictures and side information which kept me entertained and interested. I leave my book on my coffee table and pick it up once in a while to go over some training tips and I still find it interesting.

This book is well written. I highly recommend this book to anyone who owns and especially plan to get a Rhodesian Ridgeback!

'Funny thing about Rhodesian Ridgeback books. It's hard to tell the reader something he doesn't already know.

That's because this beguiling breed elicits such passion and understanding from its owners that most of us end up so attached to our dogs that we know their behaviors and temperament inside and out. As a result, we read *about* the breed while nodding our heads and commenting 'Yup ....', 'Uh-huh ...' and the like.

Still, author Ann Chamberlain does the telling about as well as anyone could. She obviously knows and loves Ridgebacks. The photos alone--this is, after all, an eminently photogenic dog--are worth almost the price of the book.

Rhodesian Ridgebacks are just strong-willed enough that most prospective buyers should be told just one thing: 'Choose an easier breed.' The rest of us get to read Chamberlain's RHODESIAN RIDGEBACK, nodding our heads in unison as we go.

This is a very comprehensive book about rhodesian ridgebacks. This book is very hard to find (haven't seen one yet) in regular pet stores probably because it is not a popular breed; pet stores only stock items that are big sellers.

I loved the history of the breed part of the book; I liked the stories it provided. While the book is specific to ridgebacks and has some specific insights into the breed, the health, caring, and training sections are pretty general to any dog breed.

If you are looking at this book compared to other rhodesian ridgeback specific books, this one is the most comprehensive. The other two books I bought about rhodesian ridgebacks are half the size.

I have read all the breed specific books on Rhodesian Ridgebacks and have found Ann Chamberlain's book an excellent resource for me. I am in the process of adopting our first Ridgeback and enjoyed the incredible detail, illustrations and photography included in this book.

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The breed specific puppy section was very informative and helpful for our family. I have read many puppy specific training/introductory texts and this one is great because it addresses the specific needs of Ridgeback pups.

Tomas Anthony
founder

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I AM THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK!

Jennifer Aftanas took ONE, count them ONE, photo in this book. Deb Hackett and I took 90% of the photos.

This is only the fifth or sixth time I have addressed this issue and I am extremely angry.

Fix it or a lawsuit is coming. Enough said.

Ann Chamberlain
Mazoe Ridegebacks
mazoerr@netscape,com