If youre bringing home a new pet, this guide comes crammed with top tips for a balanced diet, exercise, grooming, and training, as well as a health section on continuing care, identifying illness, and veterinary visits. In some areas of the world, dogs are used as guards or beasts of burden or even for food, whereas in the United States and Europe dogs are protected and admired. Please be informed that any collection of your data through Cookies in which some data are regarded as personal data (as shown in the above table). This engaging catalogue of 400 dog breeds detailing canine character, compatible owner traits, and breed advice. Starting with their history, evolution, and anatomy, this brilliant book about dogs puts on a show of dogs in art and advertising, sport and service, and religion and culture, as famous dogs in fiction line up alongside heroic helpers.

With an extensive photographic catalog of more than 400 dog breeds, organized by to FCI groupings, each profile describes the breed's uses and character, lists compatible owner traits, and shares fascinating facts about the breed's origins. Each and every breed includes stunning photographs and fact-packed profiles detailing individual character, compatible owner traits, and breed-specific advice. Most of the carnivores have similar dental structures, which is one way paleontologists have been able to identify them.From Beethoven to Toto, dogs have been adored for their unswerving loyalty and companionship throughout history and this is the perfect celebration of man's best friend. You'll also find features on famous fictional dogs, canine heroes, and a fact-packed guide to canine evolution including the jobs dogs have performed over the years. These Cookies allow Company to measure performance such as processing the number of pages you have accessed and the number of specific group of users.

Although details about the evolution of dogs are uncertain, the first dogs were hunters with keen senses of sight and smell. They were the mastiffs, wolf-type dogs, sight hounds (such as the Saluki or greyhound), pointing dogs, and herding dogs. Dog owners, breeders, and fans will also learn about canine anatomy and body systems; instinct and behavior; how dogs interact with humans; and the essentials of good care. It also includes diagrams of anatomical features, notes on the evolution of the domestic animal worldwide, and the ways dogs have featured in art, mythology, sport and service.

At three months old, dogs can receive a rabies vaccine, which is readministered every year or every three years.