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The Australian Cattle Dog: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet

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The Australian Cattle Dog: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet

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This is our seventh set of Happy, Healthy Pet titles. These latest additions will bring our series up to fifty-five titles, and like the others, they are books pet owners can turn to for the essential information they need to raise a healthy pet.
All books contain information on:

feeding
housing
grooming
health care
what to expect from the pet
basic training
As our series expands and focuses on different kinds of pets, the emphasis remains on making the pet a companion. In addition, owners of more unusual pets will particularly appreciate the expert advice in these books because professional care for their animals may be difficult to come by. As always, the instruction is from expert—people who know their pet intimately, but also remember what it was like to have one for the first time.
Happy, Healthy Pet guides are rich with professional quality color photos and are designed to be enjoyable and easy to learn from.

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Product Details

Author:	Katherine Buetow
Hardcover:	128 pages
Publisher:	Howell Book House
Publication Date:	March 23, 1998
Language:	English
ISBN:	0876054467
Package Length:	8.3 inches
Package Width:	5.3 inches
Package Height:	0.6 inches
Package Weight:	0.8 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 6 reviews

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Average Customer Review: 4.0

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0 of 1 found the following review helpful:

Great book Oct 20, 2008
Kathy knows cattle dogs! This book tells it like it is and gives a really thorough review of what life is like with an ACD.

1 of 1 found the following review helpful:

A missed occasion Apr 24, 2006
I own an ACD and am interested to know as much as possible about this fascinating kind of dog, in terms of behaviour and peculiarities.
I have to say that, apart a couple of info in the first 3 chapters (roughly 35 pages), the rest of the book has only 20 good colour pictures of ACD and nothing else focused on this dog!
It is more a normal guide to a happy healthy dog than a book on ACD. It would have been much more correct to specify this general approach.
The price is right but this is not enough.

10 of 10 found the following review helpful:

Half on ACDs, half on dogs in general Jul 30, 2003
I enjoyed this book, but didn't realize until I received it that only half the book is devoted to ACDs. The other half is about dog/puppy care in general and seems to be universal to this series of books. Good information, just not specific to ACDs as I had hoped.

Lots of pictures of adorable ACD puppies, as well as full-grown dogs. Good information about techniques for keeping an ACD busy and active, too. Medium-size puppy Kong toys filled with kibble, peanut butter and topped with a treat have helped my ACD stay in her crate all night without complaint, and saved my sanity!

Another quibble, the book tends to assume that you selected your puppy from a reputable breeder. The author doesn't seem to acknowledge owners who rescue pups, who have found an ACD pup by chance, or who have a mixed-breed, part-ACD pup.

10 of 11 found the following review helpful:

An excellent read for the cattle dog owner Sep 27, 2001
This book really covers the temperment of the breed. Offers training and what to expect of living with a cattledog. I had a hard time putting the book down.

26 of 26 found the following review helpful:

Excellent book especially on training! Jun 14, 1999
As a first time Australian Cattle Dog Owner we were unprepared at how to care for and deal with the cattle dog that adopted us. This book has lots of good information on caring for cattle dogs and is the only one that had information in it on leash breaking our dog. All in all an excellent book for people new to dogs and Australian cattle dogs in particular.