Boston Terrier: Your Happy Healthy Pet (2nd Edition)
With their tuxedo markings, scrunched-up muzzles, turned-up noses, and outgoing personalities, Boston Terriers are great pets. Their compact yet stocky bodies make them the perfect size for apartment living, travel, and laps. Friendly, lively, affectionate, and intelligent, they're usually great with kids and elderly people. This guide helps you choose and raise a loyal pet you'll love with advice on:
- Characteristics to look for
- Creating a good home environment
- Feeding, grooming, and health care
- Housebreaking and basic training
- Having fun with your sometimes rambunctious pet
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Book details
- Author
- Elaine Waldorf Gewirtz
- Imprint
- Howell Book House, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 144
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Series
- Happy Healthy Pet
- Subjects
- Pets › Dogs › Breeds
- Topics
- dog breeds · puppy care · dog training · pet health · grooming · housebreaking · apartment dogs
- ISBN-13
- 9780471748182
About the author
ELAINE WALDORF GEWIRTZ is a California-based writer specializing in pet, health, and nutrition topics who has written more than a dozen dog books. Her titles include Pugs for Dummies, Your Yorkshire Terrier’s Life, and volumes in the Your Happy Healthy Pet series.
Gewirtz has received multiple Dog Writers Association of America Maxwell Awards, the ASPCA Special Writing Award, and the Howell Best Book Award. She is a graduate of a UCLA professional writing program and a member of the Dog Writers Association of America, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the Independent Writers of Southern California.
Gewirtz has served as a columnist for the American Kennel Club Gazette and contributed to Dog Fancy and Dog World.
Elaine lives in Westlake Village, California.