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One of the responsibilities of every dog or cat owner is that of coat care. There are many and varied coat types and there is a vast difference between the time it takes to groom a Doberman and an Old English Sheepdog, a Siamese and a Persian cat. This book provides much needed guidance for groomers, breeders and owners. It will be invaluable for those taking the City and Guilds 775 Grooming exam and animal care students of all levels. Step by step grooming/clipping techniques are described for the more popular breeds of dog and cat and in each case the technique is illustrated with photographic sequences. The book also includes allied subjects such as skin care, commonly found skin parasites and basic first aid and handling.Preface.pAcknowledgements.pAbout the authors.pPART ONE WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW.p1 BREED GROUPS AND COAT TYPES.pDogs.pThe breed groups.pThe gundog group.pThe Hound group.pThe Pastoral group.pThe Terrier group.pThe Toy group.pThe Utility group.pThe Working Group.pCoat types.pDouble coats.pSilky coats.pSmooth coat.pWire coat.pWool coat.pCross reference system.pCats.pCoat types.pLong coat.pSemi-long coat.pShort coat.pCurly or wavy coat.pWire coat.pHairless.p2 EQUIPMENT AND TECHNIQUES.pBrushes.pCombs.pDe-matting tools.pCoat Kings.pStripping Equipment.pClippers.pRecommended maintenance of clippers.pUsing clippers.pBlades.pComb attachments.pScissors.pUsing scissors.pNail clippers.pEar care.pTool box.pRestraints.pGrooming tables and work stools.pOiling Equipment.pSterilisation.pFinishing touches.p3 PRE-GROOMING AND GENERAL CARE.pEyes.pEars.pMouth.pFacial care.pNail care.pAnal glands.pCauses of hair loss.pLumps and bumps.pSkin tumours.pHernias.p4 PREPARATION.pDogs.pHandling.pHuman-dog interaction.pIn the salon.pGrooming out.pCats.p5 SKIN CONDITIONS.pStructure of the skin.pEpidermis.pDermis.pHypodermis.pFunctions @K#×=p¤ ¾Ûˆ

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This is the first book on training gun dogs ever specifically written to remove the whip from the trainer's hand. Through these pages, you'll learn how to train a class gun dog with humanity, commonsense, and love.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VI THE NEWFOUNDLAND Around the Newfoundland centres a halo of romance hardly less bright than that investing the St Bernard. Both are life-savers, and, strange to say, both are importations so far as this country is concerned ; while they are two varieties of the Domestic dog that even the child is from very early times taught to venerate. As to whether Sebastian Cabot, when he discovered Newfoundland in 1497, found dogs of a remarkably large size and noble appearance, history is silent. No naturalist, sportsman, or other writer that treats of dogs before the end of last century says anything about the Newfoundlander, as he has sometimes been called. The European settlers in Newfoundland were at one time principally Irish and natives of the Channel Islands. The question arises, Did these settlers, or others from England or France, take with them dogs of a large sort from Europe, which, being crossed with the native dogs, improved the latter, and gradually formed a new variety ? It is not necessary to suppose this to have occurred in the earliest days of the settlement, for there has been a growing intercourse ever since, and the introduction of one or more of our large and superior races of dogs, from the beginning to the middle of the eighteenth century, would give ample time for the formation of a new breed of dog in Newfoundland, by commixture of their blood with that of the native race, before imported Newfoundland dogs became popular in this country. Writers constantly speak of the pure breed of dog indigenous to Newfoundland, and lament that he is now only to be met with mongrelised through crosses with inferior races. If the native inhabitantsthe Mic Macspossessed a dog of the high intellectual and moral character of the Newfoundland as now known, it wou...@K'™™™™š ¾Û€

iSkin Diseases of the Dog/i provides the veterinary practitioner with a concise practical guide to common skin diseases in the dog, as well as newly discovered dermatoses. This work is designed as a reference handbook for use by the busy clinician in practice, as well as an aide memoire for the veterinary student. It contains many colour photographs of skin conditions and ectoparasites in the dog, including diagrams for parasite identification. iSkin Diseases in thd Dog/i includes descriptions of clinical presentations and diagnosis especially those diagnostic techniques available to the veterinary surgeon within a practice environment. The book includes a chapter specifically dedicated to the diagnosis and management of otitis externa.Introduction; Bacterial skin diseases; Fungal skin diseases; Viral, rickettsial and protozoal diseases; Parasitic skin diseases; Endocrine skin diseases; Otitis externa; Immunological skin diseases; Alopecia; Nutritional skin diseases; Congenital and hereditary skin diseases; Pigment abnormalities; Psychogenic skin diseases; Keratinisation defects; Miscellaneous skin diseases; Environmental skin diseases; Neoplastic and non-neoplastic tumours; Further reading; Index.Recommended to anyone with an interest in canine dermatology, whether as a quick reference for the busy practitioner or as revision notes for the aspiring examination candidate. Such a wealth of well presented information comes at a very reasonable price.pbVeterinary International/biSkin Diseases of the Dog/i provides the veterinary practitioner with a concise practical guide to common skin diseases in the dog, as well as newly discovered dermatoses. This work is designed as a reference handbook for use by the busy clinician in practice, as well as an aide memoir for the veterinary student. It contains many colour photographs of skin conditions and ectoparasites in the dog, including diagrams for parasite identification. iSkin Diseases of the Dog/i @]%¸Që... ¾Ûˆ

bJ. C. Greenburg/bis the author of many books for young people in the library and reference field. She's a frequent visitor to schools and pays close attention to kid feedback. She's married to Dan Greenburg of the Zack files.ANDREW LOST #1: ON THE DOGbrWhen Andrew's latest invention, the Atom Sucker, goes haywire, Andrew and Judy are shrunk down to microscopic level! Andrew and Judy find themselves lost on their neighbor's dog, where they encounter everything from colossal fleas to crab-like eyelash mites. Now they have to find their way back to the Atom Sucker and get unshrunk before it's too late!brbrANDREW LOST #2: IN THE BATHROOMbrWhen Andrew and Judy's neighbor gives her dog a bath, microscopic Andrew and Judy find themselves washed off the dog and lost in the bathroom! They'll have to use their wits and Thudd's storehouse of facts if they're to survive run-ins with mold, mildew, and ocean of soapy water, and a predatory spider on their way back to the Atom Sucker.brbrANDREW LOST #3: IN THE KITCHENbrAndrew, his cousin Judy, and supersmart robot Thudd escape the bathtub only to get flushed down the toilet! Now they have to find their way through a maze of pipes to the kitchen sink. But the kitchen is no place to be when you're the size of a flea. Monster cockroaches scurry across the counter while flies patrol the skies. Will the kids survive the kitchen? Or will they end up frozen in the fridge? Time is running out!brbrANDREW LOST #4: IN THE GARDENbrAndrew, his cousin Judy, and supersmart robot Thudd hitch a ride out of the kitchen on the back of a fly and end up in the garden. The view is awfully nice from the head of a daisy, but time is running out . . . they have to get back to the Atom Sucker and unshrink themselves before it's too late!“Andrew Lost books are gross and disgusting. That’s why we like them.”br–iThe Washington Post/ibrbrbriFrom the Trade Paperback edition./i

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1894 edition by Horace Cox, London.

BRITISH DOGS - THEIR VARIETIES, HISTORY, CHARACTERISTICS, BREEDING, MANAGEMENT, AND EXHIBITION. ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS OF DOGS OF THE DAY. By HUGH DALZIEL. PREFACE: WHEN reminded by the Publisher that a dozen or so lines of Preface were needful in introducing British Dogs to the public, the following questions were forcibly presented to my mind First, whether the book should have been written and, secondly given the necessity for it whether I should have undertaken the work. Both these questions I propose handing over to the reader for solution, as I fear I might not be altogether an unprejudiced judge and in doing so I trust to his good nature to treat leniently all faults, and to his good sense to assimilate whatevermay be found worthy. The object aimed at has been to give, as far as obtainable, a sketch of the origin of each breed, and an accurate description of the points of excellence of each variety as demanded by modern taste. Only the initiated know the minute distinctions between breeds and individual dogs, patent to the subtle discrimination of the present-day philo-kuon. My fitness, if fitness there be, to convey this class of information much sought after nowadays has been acquired as canine critic for The Field, as kennel editor of The Country, and as a judge at shows, iv Preface. in which capacities I have visited many of the great exhibitions of the canine species in France, Germany, and America, as well as all the principal ones in the United Kingdom, where I have had exceptional opportunities of enlarging a knowledge of my favourite animals, which I had all my life been accumulating. There are parts of the book I can refer to with unqualified pleasure and unstinted praise, namely, the chapters contributed by the friends who have so kindly and ably assisted me. These contributions are in all cases accredited to the individual authors, and the views expressed must command, as they well deserve, the respect which the great experience of the writers@IxQë...¸ ¾Ûˆ

iFirst Aid: Emergency Care for Dogs and Cats/i is an emergency preparedness ready-reference for dogs and cats. The first three sections of the book introduce prevention and first aid principles with practical information such as what to have on hand for an emergency and how to recognize a true emergency. The last section includes easy-to-understand information on what to do and (perhaps more importantly) what not to do in specific emergency situations.

African wild dogs get their target 80 percent of the time, whereas the lion and cheetah are successful less than 50 percent of the time. This book translates the success of those wild dogs into actions and behaviors that can make you a more productive leader. The authors developed their analogy during trips to game preserves in Botswana and South Africa over a 7-year period while working on a large-scale change effort with the public sector of the country of Botswana. This book takes the traits, characteristics, and behaviors of the animals that are most successful in survival and translates them to human groups. If you are a leader of a team, inside or outside of the workplace, this book will provide leadership insights and offer tangible methods of improving your team s effectiveness.

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1881 edition by Cassell & Company, Ltd., London, Paris & New York.

THE DOG: MAN'S BEST FRIEND- A BOOK FOR ALL DOG LOVERS. By Captain A.H. Trapman A VINTAGE DOG BOOKS CLASSIC REPRINT. Originally published in 1929, this extremely scarce early work on the dog is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. VINTAGE DOG BOOKS have republished it, using the original text and illustrations, as part of their History of the Dog series. This is a fascinating and absorbing title which will appeal to all true dog lovers. It is not just a collection of dog stories, but an attempt to present a synopsis of all that has been believed, thought, and written about man's best friend throughout the ages and to deduce from it some knowledge of the dog's psychology and mental processes. Captain Trapman has written one of the most entertaining and instructive contributions to dog literature ever published. He writes with authority, and yet with charm, of the link between dog and man that exists between man and no other creature. 'To the memory of all dogs who have loved man, and to all men who have loved a dog, this study of man's best friend is dedicated. -- Author. The book consists of over three hundred pages, plus thirty pages of illustrations, including many etchings by the famous artist Diana Thorne: Origin of the Dog. - Adown the Ages. - The Dog in History and Literature. - Racial Characteristics. - Great Men and their Dogs. - Some Great Dogs. - Spirituality of the Dog. - Supernatural Instincts. - Morality and Conscience. - Sense of Scent. - Hearing, Sight and Memory. - Reasoning Power. - Duty and Honour. - Sense of Humour, Justice, and Protection. - Relations with other Animals. - Breeds and Breeding. - Utility Dogs in General. - War Dogs. - Training and Management. - Health and Sickness. - Dogs Primer of the English Language. - Origins and Uses of the Various Breeds. - Function of Bench Shows. Etc.