This, with a thorough going coverage of physical welfare, emphasizes the responsibilities that dog owning entails and gives definite guidance on manners and obedience, the proper ways of raising a dog in the city and outside urban areas, the legal and liability issues, and all points of grooming. A section on problem dogs discusses the causes of abnormal behavior, analyzes the types of maladjustment and what can be done for it; another section considers the aging dog and how to handle the symptoms and situations that arise. With advice on how to select a dog, the rest has to do with nutrition, diseases and ailments, skin, parasites and sanitation, first aid, nursing, breeding and whelping. A good one volume household companion by a well-known authority, for dog owning families.