
Your Complete Guide to Dog Care and Dog Training.




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Instincts and Behavior
Selecting Your Dog
The New Puppy
Dog Nutrition
Dog Grooming
Dog Training
Raising a Dog in the City
Suburban – Country Dog
Problem Dogs
Your Dog and the Law
The Dog’s Body
Four Major Dog Diseases
Diseases and Ailments
Internal Parasites
Fleas, Lice and Ticks
Skin Conditions
First Aid for Accidents
Nursing the Sick Dog
Mating and Prenatal Care
Whelping
Care of the Aging Dog
Dog Partners
Raising a Dog in the City
The Suburban Dog
Canine Delinquents
Home Kennels
The Country Dog
Molesting Livestock
Special Advantages of Home Kennels
THE SUBURBAN DOG
Suburbia (called “disturbia” by its critics) is a land of gracious living. Thousands of ranch and split-level houses are set on quarter- and half-acre plots. Communities have materialized in an astonishingly short time on former pasture land or farm wasteland. People who once lived in cramped city apartments now live in style. They own a car, a patio and maybe a plastic swimming pool. And they keep dogs.
The suburbs seem a likely place to keep a dog. There is more space and the dog has more opportunity to get outdoors and run off his excess energy. True. The suburban dog does have more space and freedom than his city cousin. Some suburban dogs have too much freedom.
Unfortunately, many suburban dog owners mistake the suburbs for the open country. Quarter- and half-acre plots are not farms. Unless the plot has a fence around its perimeter, the suburban dog strays over the boundary lines and gets into mischief. This is the major problem among suburban dog owners. If a neighbor happens to be a gardener who loves his hobby with a purple passion, the dog owner can expect some hostile sessions when his dog decides to dig or sleep in the neighbor’s flower bed.

Your Complete Guide to Dog Care and Dog Training.