The Dog Bible: Everything Your Dog Wants You To Know (Paperback)

For everyone who has ever wished Dr. Spock had written about dogs instead—TheDog 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:
The Dangers of Puppy Farms: What pet stores don’t want you to know
The Logic of the Wolf Pack: Rules from the wild to help you understand and communicate with your dog. What does “Alpha Dog” really mean?
House training for every dog in every possible living situation
The truth about dog food no one has told you: foods that help, foods that harm
Teaching manners: the pros and cons of different training equipment and methods, and how to keep your dog safely on your property
Vaccination Ethics and Safety: shocking facts about the potential dangers of vaccinations
Warning Signs of Vicious Dogs: How to know when a dog can—and can’t—be saved
Scooby Doo Hotchner’s 25 Rules for Kids—a special chapter written just for children to help them stay safe around dogs
Pregnancy, new babies, and your dog: how to prepare for a peaceful homecoming and life together
Dog 911: Some of the most—and least—common emergencies your dog may face and what to do, including instructions on how to administer CPR and the Heimlich maneuver
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.

Praise

“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

“Damn, wish I was your puppy...”
–Sophie B. Hawkins and Skeeter, Huck (mini-Dachshunds) & Virginia Wolff (black Lab)
Author Bio: 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.