Great Books About Dog Breeding
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The Complete Book of Dog Breeding
- ISBN13: 9780764138874
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
A veterinarian with many years of canine practice experience offers guidance to novice and professional dog breeders, emphasizing the responsibilities of reputable breeders to their dogs and to the buyers of the puppies they produce. Topics covered include: the choosing, health, quality, and conditioning of brood stock; practical DNA use, and Canine Health Information Center (CHIC) surveys and data storage to scientifically improve the selection of healthy brood stock and puppies; potential bree
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Dan Rice, DVM has produced an excellent handbook to guide
you through the dangerous shoals of breeding your dog.
Careful and up to date information on every aspect of
breeding makes this book a worthy addition to the breeder’s
bookshelf, and is equally valuable to the novice and
veteran. Especially reassuring is Rice’s detailed
examination of when to and when not to call the vet.
Essential reading, and sure to comfort on that long and
lonely night when your girl is whelping. Highly recommended.
Review by Victoria Fisher for The Complete Book of Dog Breeding
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This is a great book. I ordered several at once, thinking that I would thus overlap any weaknesses. But this is the only one I’ve used. It has lots of great pictures and illustrations. It is written in a column-format with separate headings and a great index in the back. It also is not derogatory toward the inexperienced breeder. It is what the title says: the COMPLETE book of dog breeding.
Review by Jandy R Miller for The Complete Book of Dog Breeding
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Our dog was a few weeks pregnant and I’ve never owned a dog that had puppies before, so I bought this book to learn a little beforehand. I learned everything I needed to know from her pregnancy straight to weaning the puppies! I didn’t buy another book and didn’t need to! This is an excellent book (especially for new breeders) which I highly recommend.
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I enjoyed reading this book very much. It was packed with updated information, delivered in a very easy, professional style. The short sections, each with its own heading, made it easy to digest and also to reference certain points at a later stage. It gave enough facts to work out how much money, knowledge and work is involved, acting as a deterrant if you were after making a quick buck. I like the way this particular information remained factual and unemotive. Some books written by breeders can be very sanctimonious and patronizing towards newcomers over why and whether they should breed dogs. It leaves me with a feeling that their motives are not so much based on fact, but their fear of a little competition. I just felt this was altogether a trustworthy book of information.
Review by Don Priest for The Complete Book of Dog Breeding
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I’m not a dog breeder, past or future. I wanted information on sire and dam selection, puppy development and conditioning prior to purchasing our next puppy. We’ve had 9 dogs over the years. This book would be rated 5 stars for a novice breeder. It’s well priced and covers all the basics of pregnancy, gestation, whelping and potential problems. In the area of sire and dam selection (9 pages), the recommendation is to select a good example of the breed standard without any genetic faults. A recommendation on nutrition (8 pages) is to select a “premium dog food that has been feed trialed”. The puppy development section (12 pages) described the general development from birth to 8 weeks. The information was general, basic and I didn’t learn anything new. Lots of color pictures of cute puppies. A few illustrations of dog anatomy. Several stories of dog patients Dr. Rice used for examples. Easy writing style and very well indexed. But very basic.