This book is essential reading for anyone who owns, or hopes to own, a pedigree dog and is indispensable for breeders, judges and those professionally involved with dogs.

This book is an excellent guide in our unending quest of applicable knowledge." Pat Hastings, author of Tricks of the Trade.

This book is destined to become the standard work on canine health care and management, the essential manual for anybody who takes a serious interest in the welfare of dogs.

Provides information on dog breeds, those familiar and obscure, from around the world, arranged alphabetically.

Detailed information on almost every breed of dog, from Maltese to Golden Retriever, including full-color photos, care and grooming requirements, social behavior and training hints.

An account of the dog's loyalty, courage and usefulness throughout the period of western expansion.

"Using archaeological (skeletal remains, depictions), historical, ethnographic, mythological, and linguistic evidence, work surveys various roles of domesticated dogs throughout the Americas"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

All of this is complemented by original drawings by the well-known canine artist Mary Jung. A Howell Dog Book of Distinction Here, at last, is a revised and expanded edition of this award-winning breeders' reference.