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| Beagle Handbook, The (Barron's Pet Handbooks) | 
 enlarge | Author: Dan Rice Dvm
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Category: Book
List Price: $11.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 61008
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 6.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0764114646
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.7537
EAN: 9780764114649
ASIN: 0764114646
Publication Date: September 1, 2000
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Condition: new softback from bookstore warehouse
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Product Description
Here is detailed advice for owners of this cheerful breed, which is adaptable as a hunter or a household pet. Titles in this pet care series are similar to Barron's Complete Pet Owner's Manuals, but are larger, with more detailed instruction and more illustrations. The books advise pet owners on purchase, health care, nutritious feeding, proper housing and other facts important to owners and their pets. All books in this series have dozens of high quality, full-color photos and instructive line drawings.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Nice read July 16, 2007
Certainly an informative book, although I would like to see more suggetions on how to handle beagle-specific behaviors.
 Great Book...Must Have For Beagle Owners March 22, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Having had a beagle before I had a little experience, but felt I should probably do some reading again before getting my next. It's a must have book for current beagle owners, but it's even more worthy if you read it beofre obtaining your beagle. Very well laid out book and a pleasure to read.
 Mediocre at best July 14, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Information is ok, but the writing is clunky and the index needs work.
Beagles - My Hound of Choice! September 4, 2005
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
As the owner of a beagle, I thought this was a mediocre book. The grammar is poor, but it does offer good factual information about the breed. The author, in an effort to be "equal opportunity" uses the names "Sam" and "Rosie" as generic male and female beagles. It seems that a more effective approach would be to say "beagles" without using names.
Kraeuter's book entitled "Training Your Beagle" is a much better book and was very helpful. Beagle owners will no doubt love her book.
 Reasonable information marred by awful writing January 5, 2005
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
I'm a beagle owner and was happy to receive this book as a gift. That was until I started reading it. While it does an adequate job of covering basic information about the breed, the writing is bad enough to be a constant annoyance to anyone with a grasp of grammar or style. Most egregious is the author's incomprehensible choice to substitute the proper names of dogs for indirect references and even pronouns. So instead of saying something like "your beagle may be difficult to toilet train" or "beagles are difficult to toilet train," we must read "Rosie may be difficult to toilet train." Multiply this by thousands of references, and you may slowly be driven insane; certainly I was. I have since bought "Training your Beagle" by Kristine Kraeuter and found it includes even better research and breed information without the fanciful and disastrous prose.
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