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Complete Book of Dog Breeding

Complete Book of Dog Breeding
By DVM, Dan Rice

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An experienced veterinarian and writer on pets explains the seasonality of heats, choosing and conditioning breeding stock, potential breeding problems, the actual breeding process, normal, assisted and cesarean-section births, lactation, neonatal puppy care, and much more. Softcover,178 pages.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #34694 in Books
  • Brand: Barrons Books
  • Published on: 1996-08-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: .50 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 208 pages

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  • Barrons Dog Breeding Complete

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap
(back cover)
A veterinarian with many years of canine practice experience offers guidance to novice and professional dog breeders, emphasizing their responsibilities to their dogs and to the buyers of the puppies they produce. Topics covered include:

  • Choosing brood stock based on health, quality, and conditioning
  • Practical DNA use, and Canine Health Information Center (CHIC) surveys and data storage to improve the selection of healthy brood stock and puppies
  • Potential breeding problems
  • Artificial insemination
  • Pregnancy and its duration
  • Stages of labor
  • Normal and Cesarean-section births, and how to assist in both
  • Nutrition of dams and puppies
  • Neonatal puppy care . . . and much more

    Filled with color photos and line art

    • Customer Reviews

    Dog breeding info5
    Great book especially for novices! It gave you enough information to prepare for the birth, understand and know what to anticipate. We had 2 books handy while our chi gave birth to 6 puppies! Puppy birth is very similar to human birth in alot of ways. So, if you've been through child birth whether it's yourself or a loved one, the main thing is to remain calm and be there for your dog. They will appreciate you for it!

    birthin' puppies5
    This book was of great help, particularly when our pups began to dehydrate after birth. There were only 2 things it did not prepare us for, having smaller than normal litters and the mother's nervous behavior affecting her care of such a small litter. According to the emergency vet on holiday call, there are breed specific behaviors which play into the mother's care and can interfere. My only wish was that I could have found a book more specific to my breed. As a general instruction manual, it was of great help. The two little pups are dear and are doing well now, 2 weeks later.

    Loved it5
    We just had a litter and everything went great. There are nine healthy pups. We had to do the slinging thing with one pup, and with the illustrations and directions it worked and the pup is healthy. We didn't loose one!!!