The Dog: Its Behavior, Nutrition, and Health 3rd Edition

Your Definitive Guide to Canine Care, 3rd Edition

This book remains a definitive textbook regarding dogs and their care. Now in its third edition, this text provides updated and expanded coverage of selective breeding, training principles, solutions to common behavior problems, diet and nutrition, and preventive health care, all in clear, accessible language.

Key Features

• Comprehensive Coverage: It provides an in-depth review of canine domestication, breeding, behavior and cognition, training, health care, and nutrition.
• New Sections: New sections in this edition include information about dog breeds and selective breeding practices, genetic testing programs, canine social cognition and communication, manners training and common behavior problems, popular dog sports, and new information regarding health care and disease prevention.
• Problem-Focused: The book provides information about interspecies communications between dogs and humans, prevention and management of common behavior problems in dogs, and pet food selection and recommended feeding practices.
• Health and Nutrition: It includes detailed information about breed-specific diseases and their genetic testing, canine infectious viruses and atopic disease, and new vaccines and vaccination schedules.
• Enhanced Resources: The text is enhanced with distinctive figures and tables and provides current references, suggested readings, updated tables and references, and a thorough glossary to aid in comprehension.
• Broad Audience: It is an indispensable tool for veterinarians, veterinary technicians, trainers, behaviorists, breeders, animal shelter and rescue group staff, and dog owners. Academically, it is a useful textbook for second- or third-year students who have completed at least one college-level biology course.