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Understanding Border Collies |  | Author: Barbara Sykes
Publisher: Crowood Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 165839
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 157
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1861262809
Dewey Decimal Number: 636
EAN: 9781861262806
ASIN: 1861262809
Publication Date: August 1, 1999
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Product Description
The Border Collie is an extremely versatile breed, faithful enough to be a loyal friend, honest enough to be a hard worker, and intelligent enough to be an asset in rescue and other services. This comprehensive, illustrated book gives essential advice on how to become the pack leader by understanding and interpreting the body language of man's best friend. Topics include choosing your Border Collie, taking your puppy home, common sense dog training, nutrition, creating a partnership, and adolescent and older dogs.
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 Found it helpful September 10, 2009
Patricia L. Robinson
Never raised a puppy before. There were a lot of interesting facts. Many probably relate to other breeds. However if you are a first time border puppy owner I would suggest this book.
 Herding dogs as Companion pets August 5, 2009
Debra Koch (St. Charles, MO United States)
My husband and I felt this book was helpful in raising our Border Collies but often found the instructions more valuable if you were wanting a companion pet versus a working herding dog. It was still a great book in understanding and working with the impish intelligence of the Border Collie breed. For those who are trying to deal with the herding instincts as evidenced by unwanted or destructive behaviors, this book does help. FYI: The biggest tip I would give those wanting a Border Collie as a companion is that these dogs have to have a job whether it's agility, running or jogging with it's owner, or herding other animals. It would be very unusual for a Border Collie to be kept in a small cage over 8 hours a day or even left in a back yard while at work and not develop some type of unwanted behavior. Since we actually have cattle that our dogs work, we found other books to be more helpful for what we needed but still learned a lot from this one.
 Understanding Border Collies June 29, 2009
Christie Rogers (Temecula, CA)
The book was mostly the author's opinion on Border Collies and had the usual pet care information applicable to all breeds. While the book was ok, it wasn't what I was looking for and ended up buying Larson's The Versatile Border Collie, which was PERFECT!
Barbara Sykes March 2, 2009
J. Whitman (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Fabulous book. Barbara Sykes has a keen understanding of Border Collies and dogs in general. I found the information in the book very helpful in helping me better communicate with the border collie I recently rescued.
Helpful even to veteran dog owners - lots of specifics! July 13, 2008
E. Moll (Chicago, IL USA)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
My fiancee and I recently made the decision to follow through with our dream of having a border collie. We've read other breed-specific books (after getting our other dog, a Shetland sheepdog) and came away unimpressed. Most of them provide basic, general dog-ownership advice and common sense. So, yes, we understand that we will need to give the border collie much more time and mental/physical exercise than a typical breed. We have also read plenty of horror stories of restless border collies destroying its owner's home to varying degrees. I bought this book, with limited information in the description, in the hope that it would have breed-specific information that I couldn't find just surfing the internet.
...And it really paid off! Clearly the author has great expertise with respect to border collies and is not afraid to share opinions and impressions that, while not necessarily universal, could be helpful to prospective owners. (e.g. The author believes that coat length and ear shape may give a hint on a puppy's energy level.) What I like, in particular, is that the author provides as much advice for owners seeking mere companionship (like us) as for those seeking working dogs.
I just finished the section regarding specific dietary issues of border collies, and found it very helpful. (I was surprised to learn that the premium dog food we give to our finicky sheltie would probably send a non-working border collie through the roof!)
If I was to find any complaint about the book, it would be that the photographs in the book are not in color. I also wouldn't mind if it were a touch cheaper, given that it's only 157 pages.
These pages, however, are clear, well-written and chalk-full of valuable breed-specific information (and with almost nothing that is just general dog-ownership common sense). I'm sure that this book saved us any number of "incidents" and will only make our future border collie (and its owners) a great deal happier in the future.
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