The Dog Bible: Everything Your Dog Wants You to Know - Softcover

Hotchner, Tracie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592401325 ISBN 13: 9781592401321

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2005

Synopsis

For everyone who has ever wished Dr. Spock had written about dogs instead—The Dog Bible is your essential guide to everything you will ever need to know. Whether you’re a first-time dog owner or an expert, your dog would want you to read this book. Encyclopedic in scope, it covers not only the basics, but every practical aspect of life with a dog, including many fascinating and helpful subjects never before collected in one volume.

Life-saving advice about the special needs of toy breeds: everything you need to know to protect and enhance their wonderfully long lives
Dog Psychology: Eye-opening ideas from an emerging field of study, including a chapter on the weird things dogs do—and why!

Tracie Hotchner, lifelong dog owner and author of the million-copy bestseller, Pregnancy and Childbirth, has distilled years of research into one comprehensive, accessible guide. You’ll make hundreds of decisions about your dog’s care during his lifetime. THE DOG BIBLE is here to give you the latest and best information available to help you make those decisions. It’s everything your dog would want you to know.

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Praise for Tracie Hotchner's THE DOG BIBLE

"Whether you're starting out with your very first dog, or you think you're experienced in the ways of dogs, The Dog Bible will tell you something you didn't know. And both you and your dog will be better for it."
-Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO, The Humane Society of the United States

"People and dogs have a simple, unwritten contract: The dog provides the devotion, love, companionship and work while we accept the responsibility of providing food, water, shelter, healthcare in life and death, and hopefully some love in return. Unfortunately, we as people often fall short. Dogs rarely do. Tracie Hotchner has written a book that will help us keep up our side of the bargain."
-Dr. Barry C. Browning, B.V.M. & S., M.R.C.V.S.

"I believe Ms. Hotchner was a dog in a previous life. Her perspective is that detailed and complete. Since I speak "dog" fluently and converse with my three canines, Lucy, Henry and the "diva" Frances, we have agreed that it is the finest book about dogs ever written."
-Jamie Lee Curtis

"My three dogs, Veronica, Lulu, and Max, are all barking, 'Finally! The book we've all been waiting for!' Everything you've ever wanted or needed to know about your dog is in here. Hooray!"
-Joan Rivers

"My animal companion, Belinda Barkowitz, loves this book. Belinda is psychic (like most Standard Poodles) and she predicts that dog lovers will buy many copies of The Dog Bible to give to all their friends."
-Erica Jong

"Damn, wish I was your puppy..."
-Sophie B. Hawkins and Skeeter, Huck (mini-Dachshunds) & Virginia Wolff (black Lab)

About the Author

Tracie Hotchner is the author of the million-copy bestseller Pregnancy & Childbirth, which was nominated for the American Book Award, as well as three other books on pregnancy. She has appeared on national talk shows, including the Today show and Oprah, and she lives in East Hampton, New York, with her three dogs, Jazzy, Billy Blue, and Scooby Doo.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1592401325
• ISBN 13: 9781592401321
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 704