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| Complete Book of Dog Breeding | 
 enlarge | Author: Dvm, Dan Rice
Brand: Barrons Books
Category: Book
List Price: $10.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 50038
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 6.4 x 0.6
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ISBN: 0812096045
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.7082
UPC: 027011096044
EAN: 9780812096040
ASIN: 0812096045
Publication Date: August 1, 1996
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A must have for anyone thinking of breeding!! July 15, 2003
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
Buy this book BEFORE you breed!! Dan Rice tells it like it is and breeding is not all cute cuddly puppies that all go to great homes and you live happily ever after.. Not only does he touch on how to choose breeding dogs, he tells of most of all the serious problems that can and do go wrong, how there are hundreds upon hunreds of homeless unwanted dogs both pure breeds and mixes. and he puts it so everyone can understand what is happening. Even an expereinced breeder can use this book for reference!
 Good book for a novice breeder December 12, 2001
25 out of 28 found this review helpful
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.
informative, but easy and fun to read June 12, 2001
33 out of 33 found this review helpful
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.
OUTSTANDING!! February 24, 2001
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
Rice has compiled a simple, thorough, easy to read book that I would recommend to even the seasoned breeder. I don't need anything else!
A good read for anyone interested in dogs July 3, 2000
56 out of 63 found this review helpful
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.
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