Breeding Dogs For Dummies
by Richard Beauchamp
Breeding Dogs For Dummies
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About the Author
Richard G. (Rick) Beauchamp has been successfully involved in practically every facet of purebred dogs. He has bred them as well as trained and handled them professionally in the show ring. For many years, he owned and managed a publishing house devoted almost entirely to books and periodicals about purebred dogs. He is a published author of numerous breed and all-breed dog books and has lectured extensively on purebred dogs throughout the world.
As a breeder-exhibitor, he has been actively involved in breeds of nearly all the variety Groups, including top quality Chow Chows, Dachshunds, Salukis, and Irish Setters. His Beau Monde Kennel has produced champion Boxers, American Cocker Spaniels, Poodles, Wire Fox Terriers, Bull Terriers, Pembroke Welsh Corgis, Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, and Chinese Shar-Pei. Rick is particularly associated with the Bichon Frise, a breed he has specialized in since its earliest days in America.
As a judge of all breeds with the Federacion Cynologique Internationale, Rick has had the distinct pleasure of judging championship events in Mexico, throughout the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Orient, Central America, and South America. Rick now judges throughout North America for the American Kennel Club, the Canadian Kennel Club, and the United Kennel Club.
In his other life, Rick has had a lifelong interest in film and theater and spent several years as a copy editor and reporter for the television and film industry bible, Daily Variety. He lives in Cambria, California, a coastal village situated midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Dedication
This book is dedicated to the many breeders I have known and learned from over nearly a half centurys involvement in purebred dogs. Their triumphs and bitter disappointments have enabled me to preserve, to accomplish, and to contribute to this wonderful world of dogs.
Authors Acknowledgments
No words will ever be able to express my appreciation for those wonderful books with dog heroes in them written by the late Albert Payson Terhune. His books not only inspired a love of all nature but a fascination with the magic of the written word.
The enthusiastic and supportive people at Wiley and Howell Book House have helped tremendously in translating my fascination with purebred dogs and the words we use to describe them into what I sincerely hope is a real guide to breeding quality purebred dogs and understanding the huge responsibility involved in doing so.
I particularly wish to thank my editor, Tim Gallan, who assisted me so well in consolidating all the bits and pieces of my experience in dogs, in general, and dog breeding, in particular, into this book.
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