Complete Dog Care

How to keep your dog healthy and happy Complete Dog Care contains all the information you need to nurture your dog from puppy-hood through to old age. You'll find a comprehensive programme detailing everything required to provide your dog with the highest level of care, from house-training and socialisation to grooming and exercising. It covers all aspects of canine life, including guidance on choosing a dog to suit your family, home and lifestyle, and advice on preparing your home and garden. Step-by-step photographs show you how to handle your dog, travel with him, and administer basic first aid. Handy checklists and easy to follow charts help you identify health problems and deal with them appropriately. With Complete Dog Care you'll have everything you need to keep your dog healthy, happy, and playing fetch for years to come.

The most comprehensive dog care manual ever published to all aspects of caring for your dog. Essentials of care, feeding, grooming, and handling--with special tips on training and discipline--are covered in understanding text and over 650 full-color, step-by-step photographs showing a wide variety of breeds.

Looking for the ideal, perfectly compatible canine companion for your family? Your search ends here. From spaniels to sheepdogs, The Complete Dog Breed Book is all you need to find the perfect pet for your family. Fully illustrated and featuring over 400 of the world's best-loved breeds, this comprehensive guide offers expert advice on keeping, training, and caring for your beloved dog. The book's special Q&A selector charts help you make the right choice as per your lifestyle and convenience. Clear and practical instructions on care cover the essential aspects of looking after a dog, including handling, grooming, nutrition, health, and exercise. The visual training program features step-by-step photographic sequences, explaining the specifics of basic obedience. Tried-and-tested notes on how to identify and prevent common behavioral problems provide a fascinating insight into the behavior of dogs and how we interact with them. The Complete Dog Breed Book is a one-stop manual to help you become the owner of a happy, healthy, and well-behaved dog.

An expert's advice on how to raise a happy and healthy dog, illustrated with full-color photographs.

The Leonberger Complete Owners Manual has the answers you need when researching this noble and very powerful purebred canine. Learn about the giant mountain dog named after a city in Germany and find out whether or not this breed will be the best choice for you and your family. Learn everything there is to know, including little known facts and secrets and how to care for every aspect of the Leonberger's life. This manual contains all the information you need, from birth to the Rainbow Bridge, including transitioning through house breaking, care, feeding, training and end of life, so that you can make a well-informed decision about whether or not the Leonberger is the breed for you. If you already have a Leonberger, this book will teach you everything you need to know to make your dog a happy dog and to make you a happy dog owner. The author George Hoppendale is an experienced writer and a true animal lover. He enjoys writing animal books and advising others how to take care of their animals to give them a happy home. Co-Author Asia Moore is a professional Dog Whisperer, Cynologist and Author, living on Vancouver Island, off the west coast of British Columbia, in Canada, who believes that all humans and dogs can live together in harmony. She and her dog whispering team, which includes an 8-year-old Shih Tzu named Boris, teach dog psychology to humans, to help alleviate problem behaviors that arise between humans and their canine counterparts so that everyone can live a happy and stress-free life together. Covered in this book: - Temperament - Vital statistics - Before you buy - Choosing the right dog - Health - Daily care - Feeding - House training - Medical care & safety - Grooming - Training - Poisonous Foods & Plants - Caring for your aging dog .... and much more.

A revised and updated edition of the classic guide to owning and caring for a healthy, well-adjusted dog from puppyhood to old age--"everything you need to know about feeding training, and health care for dogs of every breed and temperament.

Pets are faithful companions that accompany you through thick and thin for as long as the friendship lasts. They are silent, yet understanding. They are intelligent, yet subservient to you. They become a major portion of your life. Among the animals usually taken in as pets, dogs constitute a rather impressive proportion. After all, they are man's best friend! There are over 100 different breeds of dogs with distinguishably different characteristics and features that endear them to their owners. This book focuses on one such breed: the Coton de Tulear dog or simply Coton. Like every other breed, they are pretty unique. The Coton de Tulear dog breed is regarded as a small breed companion dog owing to its amiable nature and cuddlesome appearance. The Coton is a humble representation of beauty, intelligence, loyalty, companionship and playfulness. It is a "little cotton ball" which keeps you happily entertained throughout your relationship. What makes it even more endearing is its sprightly nature, the ability to perform simple tricks to amuse onlookers and its affectionate personality! Besides this, its small size makes it a compact, manageable and "mobile" pet. When it comes to pulling off those amazing god-gifted looks, this particular breed has a knack of flaunting its beauty in breath-taking style! This makes the dog extremely adorable! But before you start thinking about getting a Coton de Tulear dog, there are a lot of things you need to consider and evaluate against each other. Carefully assessed decisions are less likely to end up in failure as compared with gut-instinct purchases! Everything you need to know about this breed is contained in this book. This manual contains all the information you need, from birth to the Rainbow Bridge, including transitioning through house breaking, care, feeding, training and end of life, so that you can make a well informed decision whether or not the Kangal is the breed for you. If you already have a Coton, you will learn everything you need to know to keep your dog healthy and happy.

This definitive encyclopedia is a comprehensive visual guide to more than 180 breeds from all over the world. Everything you need to know about dogs, from choosing a breed to grooming, feeding and exercise is described in full detail, and there is a step-by-step guidance through basic first aid and training. Descriptions of each dog's temperament will help you choose the right dog for you and your family.