Border Collies
Topics: Dog Breeds | 5 Comments »By admin | March 5, 2010
- ISBN13: 9780764136443
- Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
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Product Description
This energetic, intelligent working dog attained AKC recognition only in recent decades. Although an outdoors dog, it also makes a good family pet. This book is a brand-new title in Barron’s extensive line of Complete Pet Owner’s Manuals. They advise current and soon-to-be pet owners on the care of dogs and cats of virtually all recognized breeds, as well as on birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, small mammals, and even exotic creatures like tarantulas and sugar… More >>
Posted by Anonymous on 03.05.10 1:56 pm
I enjoyed this book very much! Being a border Collie owner, this wonderful book gave me a lot of Border Collie information.
Rating: 5 / 5
Posted by Gregory on 03.05.10 2:03 pm
This is just a short note to let anyone thinking of getting a book on BCs to get this one. It is wonderful!
Rating: 5 / 5
Posted by alex hord on 03.05.10 2:21 pm
Although this book has been extremely helpful for me and my BC, I cannot ignore the lack of writing skills throughout. I feel safe in assuming that manuals such as these are usually not scrutinized for their mastery of English grammar and word usage, but this book is also structurally poor. I would suggest a different book without seeing any of them.
Rating: 2 / 5
Posted by J. MacKenzie on 03.05.10 3:16 pm
A very complete and inexpensive book covering all aspects of Border Collies.I did not follow all the suggestions for purchasing a Border Collie and paid the price.
Rating: 4 / 5
Posted by Robin J. Baker on 03.05.10 4:47 pm
Like many breeds, the Border Collie deserves understanding by potential and current owners. I don’t feel however this book was intended to do that. A basic dog care book would suffice for most of it and in spending too much time on this, diminishes the challenge and understanding this breed demands of its owners.
The contention of the author that the Border Collie is relatively a new breed is, in my mind patently dishonest. Border Collie records are well documented and go back well over a hundred years, but for the AKC, that decided to recognize the breed recently, it is “recent” and, I presume that is the authors perspective in writing this.
On this point, it should also be noted by the author (but is not) that registered AKC Border Collies were created based on “looks like” and not on herding or intelligence or even the historical records for the breed.
Today, there are two registries that exist competing with each other. Those that are recognized to be Border Collie workding dogs and those that are recognized by the AKC.
Rating: 2 / 5