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Working Dogs: An Attempt To Produce A Strain Of German Shepherds Which Combines Working Aability And Beauty Of Conformation | 
 enlarge | Author: Elliott Humphrey
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 454940
Media: Paperback
Pages: 253
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 1929242220
Dewey Decimal Number: 636
EAN: 9781929242221
ASIN: 1929242220
Publication Date: June 30, 2005
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Product Description
The latest in the Dogwise Classic series! The first scientific study from early in the 20th century to attempt to understand how to breed dogs, primarily German Shepherds, of superior intelligence, disposition, and physique for use in a wide variety of working dog capacities. This effort began the process - which is still evolving today - of better understanding how to breed for both the physical and temperament characteristics desired.
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A Must Read for Anyone Interested in Breeding Dogs October 13, 2008
suzen whitaker (Cincinnati, OH)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is fascinating. Anyone even considering breeding dogs in general and the German Shepherd Dog in particular should read this and keep it for reference. The authors prove wrong anyone who says bloodlines are not important when deciding what to breed to what and explains how it takes careful study and several generations of dogs to determine what traits your foundation stock is passing on. It also has much on the psychological traits and temperment that most inexperienced or back yard breeders over look completely in favor of just trying to produce "pretty dogs" or the current fad in conformation or color. I have already lent this book to a friend so I don't have the original publish date handy but it was originally printed in the early 1900's but it certainly is not dated except in some areas such as feeding and the loss of many puppies to contageous disease as there were no vaccines then, although this was somrtimes considered a positive as the ones who did not contact the disease even tho exposed or the ones who recovered were deemed a case of survival of the fittest. I believer this is the best book I have read on dog breeding by far.
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