Expanded Description:
First part tells the story of puppy development, day by day, from birth to seven weeks, the time when the greatest changes, physically and behaviorally, take place and when basic personality is shaped (the most important and least understood time in the dog's life). Next section deals with the period from seven weeks until the puppies go to their new homes, single puppy litters and how individual puppies turned out as adults. Written by a long-time breeder of Shetland Sheepdogs who is a biologist/researcher/teacher, now retired; taken from her journals, kept over the years for each litter she raised. **While this book is "about" Shelties, it is of extreme interest to anyone raising a litter, regardless of breed.
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