The Dog Encyclopedia

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Our adult range spans travel, including the award-winning DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, history, science, nature, sport, gardening, cookery, and parenting. Combining fabulous photographs with information on the latest breeds, historical facts, and advice on everyday care, The Dog Encyclopedia is an indispensable owner’s guide and a useful reference for professionals. These Cookies are used to enable the Site to acknowledge and identify your data and identity all the times while you are using services on the Site for preventing you from unexpected disconnection from the Site. 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. Founded in 1884, the not-for-profit AKC is the recognized and trusted expert in breed, health, and training information for all dogs.

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Each and every breed includes stunning photographs and fact-packed profiles detailing individual character, compatible owner traits, and breed-specific advice.Gland-lined sacs, housed internally on either side of a dog’s anus, produce a scent that contributes to each dog’s unique odour profile.

Some see BSL as a humane way of making communities safer by discouraging dog fighting and the breeding of dangerous dogs. Characteristics of loyalty, friendship, protectiveness, and affection have earned dogs an important position in Western society, and in the United States and Europe the care and feeding of dogs has become a multibillion-dollar business. From Beethoven to Toto, dogs have a special relationship with humans and are forever known as man’s best friend. In this region wolves likely facilitated their own domestication by trailing nomadic people in northern Eurasia and consuming the remains of game animals that hunters left behind. At three months old, dogs can receive a rabies vaccine, which is readministered every year or every three years.

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.

From Afghan Hounds to Yorkshire Terriers, from gun dogs to designer breeds - and from Beethoven to Toto - for centuries, dogs have been adored for their unswerving loyalty, and this new edition of The Dog Encyclopedia provides the perfect celebration of the special relationship that binds humans with our four-legged friends. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. 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). From Beethoven to Toto, dogs have a special relationship with humans and are forever known as mans best friend.From Beethoven to Toto, dogs have been adored for their unswerving loyalty and companionship throughout history and The Dog Encyclopedia is the perfect celebration of man's best friend.

That's why we create books for everyone that explore ideas and nurture curiosity about the world we live in.Every entry includes glorious photographs and fact-packed profiles detailing the individual character, compatible owner traits, and breed-specific advice. DK acts as the parent company for Alpha Books, publisher of the Idiot's Guides series and Prima Games, video gaming publishers, as well as the award-winning travel publisher, Rough Guides.