The Essential Dog Book

Rating:
Summary: WARNING!!!!!! Dangerous info
Review: This book has a very dangerous statement in it. On page 31 of the hard back in "Food Requirements" under a picture it has the following statement. "Very nearly every dog loves chocolate." Nothing else. What it doesn't say and what my vet just confirmed is that chocolate is poisones to dogs and cats. It can give them diabetes. Although I like much of the rest of the book I cannot recomend any book with such misleading and dangerous information.

Rating:
Summary: Good intro, but not much detail
Review: This book is a good introduction for people who don't know which kind of dog they want, and would like to peruse a book with pretty pictures.

The pictures are excellent. But unfortunately it comes at the expense of the text. Each dog's listing is very brief (a few short paragraphs each) and it leaves you wanting more.

Also worthy of note: this book is geared towards a reader in the United Kingdom. Weights and measures are listed in metric units first, with U.S. units (whatever they're called) in parentheses. This also means that when a name for a breed is different between the two countries, the authors go with the European name.

So I would say don't buy this book if you're looking for lots of detail on each breed, but DO buy it if you love pretty pictures.

(I did not weigh the review about the chocolate in this review.)