The Book of the Bulldog

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Summary: The book fo the Bulldog
Review: I thought the book had some interesting things about the bulldog but I thought it was just to outdated. The pictures were nice but mostly in black in white. To be honest when I received the book I was disappointed.

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Summary: Depends on what you're looking for
Review: This book is excellent if you mostly want a coffee table book about show dogs and the "elite" owners and breeders. The history is interesting and many of the pictures delightful.

For the average owner who wants advice and information for raising and caring for the average bulldog, the book is minimally helpful, in my opinion. No more than a third of the book contains any practical advice at all, and most of that has to do with show dogs. At most, parts of four or five of the eighteen chapters contain advice useful for ordinary owners--and some of that, like the advice on nutrition, seems woefully dated, while a fair bit has nothing to do with bulldogs in particular and amounts to common pet-owner sense. (Like anybody of normal intelligence doesn't know to take a snake-bitten dog to the vet, for instance.) I can't say that I found answers to more than one or two of my many questions about owning a bulldog.

I'd never have bought this book in a bookstore, where I would have seen quickly that it didn't contain what I was looking for. Still, if I'd paid ten or twelve dollars for the book, I'd have been disappointed not to find what I had expected, but content with the enjoyable parts. At ... dollars, I consider the book a seriously bad value for me, an average owner.

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Summary: History Book
Review: This is a good book if you are looking for the history of the bulldog. It also has alot of information on different lines and breedings of champion show dogs. There are chapters dealing with bulldogs in different countries as well as their champions form Mexico to Russia.
I was looking for a pet owners book and this book left me wanting for more especially with health issues. The book was written in 1985 so it is slightly outdated. However one bulldog website said it was a must for any serious bulldog owner. I have mine and hope to use it someday.