Puppy Report

This book is essential for everyone wanting to buy a puppy. There is no book like it on the market. I highly recommend that the publisher reprint this book. It will sell.

This book, by investigative reporter Larry Shook is an eye-opening and sometimes horrifying look at what is happening in the world of pure-bred dogs today... Using his first purchase of a pure-bred as a tragic example, he begins a search to find what went wrong and finds that we are killing our dogs with kindness. The popularity of certain breeds has allowed puppy mills (worth a tell all book in itself) and unprincipled breeders to pass on gentic diseases and defects that doom the dog from the start, and now, because of these practices have been allowed unchecked, these same diseases and defects are not merely common but to be expected in certain animals. One shocking bit of information is that the AKC has, to a certain degree, encouraged these practices by allowing "fashion" to rule in the show ring and simply by the fact the AKC makes money by simply registering purebreds, healthy or not...(n fairness Mr. Shook also points out that at the time of the book's printing (1992) the AKC had begun to take some steps toward correcting this)Mr.Shook details exactly what the potential buyer of a pure-bred should be looking for, what questions to ask and where to go for ACCURATE information on the breed you are interested in...Sadly, this book is out of print now, as it should be required reading for anyone considering the purchase of pure-bred dog.....