Product Description

These delightful little canines average less than 10 pounds and are called papillion (butterfly) because of their large wing-like ears. They accommodate well to apartment living and are good with older children. Titles in Barron’s wide-ranging and heavily illustrated selection of Complete Pet Owner’s Manuals present sound and useful information for pet owners. High-quality photos are in color and line drawings are anatomically accurate. These fact-filled books instruct owners on how to care for dogs, cats, birds, fish, caged pets, reptiles, and virtually every other animal that people are likely to keep as a pet. Books in this series are written by breeders, trainers, veterinarians, and other pet-care specialists. They advise on purchasing, feeding, health care, training, grooming, and all other aspects of responsible pet ownership.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #224945 in Books
• Brand: Barrons Books
• Published on: 2003-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .55 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages

Features

• Full of Information
• Great Read
• Color Photos

From the Back Cover
back cover
Information and advice to help you
take good care of your Papillon

The typical Papillon: its origins, anatomy, physical traits, temperament, and more
Expert advice: feeding, health care, training, grooming, exercise, and play activities
Understanding your Papillon: its body language and other ways of communicating with you

Customer Reviews

Nice book but with some faulty data
This is the first breed book on the Papillon in a long time, and one of the few to be written by an American author. Dr. Hungerland is an AKC obedience and conformation judge of many years' experience, and she offers excellent advice on how to decide whether the Papillon is the breed for you, and when and how to acquire one. The book's many photographs are another of the volume's strengths, depicting pet Paps as well as show dogs, in a variety of settings. Unfortunately, when she gets to the subject of health problems (relatively few of which exist in this breed), Hungerland produces some seriously flawed (and unsupported) statistics, which give a very misleading picture of the breed. This is the book's only fault, but it is a serious one, and the misinformation certainly warrants retracting. Hopefully future editions will be corrected so that this book can be useful to prospective pet-owners for years to come.

it was okay...
I found more information on papillions, specifically-online! I found most of the information to be general as opposed to specific about the papillion breed. I recently brought home my papillion puppy, three weeks ago and I am not impressed. It is definately not a "complete pet owners manual".

A Must Have
I am so glad I ordered this book. I was a little hesitant at first because it is a paperback, not a hardback. I tend to refer to my breed books so often that a hardback holds up better. However, I found this book to be very informative and corroborates the other two hardback books I bought on the Papillon. The three of them combined has convinced me that this is the next dog for me. I have mostly had herding dogs (GSD and Shelties). I found the personality, intelligence, and trainability of the Papillon to be much like my beloved Shelties. However, because they are a single coated breed, as opposed to a double coated (Sheltie), grooming is much easier, and shedding is not as big of a problem. In many ways, though, the breeds are similar, which will make my transition to a Pap an easier one. In fact my last Sheltie was small for a Sheltie with highly fringed (but perfectly tipped Sheltie) ears. I liked the fringe, though, and refused to clip it. Thus, the interest in the Pap. They are smaller, easier to travel with, easier to groom (without the heavy undercoat), and just as intelligent and trainable.