Rottweilers For Dummies
by Richard Beauchamp
Rottweilers 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, Rick has been actively involved in breeds of nearly all the Variety Groups, including top winning Chow Chows, Dachshunds, Salukis, and Irish Setters. His Beau Monde Kennel has produced outstanding Boxers, Cocker Spaniels, Poodles, Wire Fox Terriers, Bull Terriers, Pembroke Welsh Corgis, Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, and Chinese Shar-Pei.
As a judge of all breeds with the Federacion Cynologique Internationale, Rick has had the distinct pleasure of judging Rottweilers at championship events many times 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 industrys bible, Daily Variety. He lives in Cambria, California, which is situated midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Dedication
This book is dedicated to the Rottweiler breeders, exhibitors, and owners who, through the years, have worked hard to preserve and enhance the great qualities the breed was created to possess @md bravery, loyalty, and devotion. It goes without question that there are other breeds who may possess any one or perhaps even all of these same characteristics, but I am quite confident that none could possibly combine them so well and so uniquely as does the Rottweiler.
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 IDG Books 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 helpful guide to understanding and appreciating the many fine qualities of the Rottweiler breed.
I particularly wish to thank my editor, Elizabeth Kuball, who assisted me so well in consolidating all the bits and pieces of my experience with dogs in general and the Rottweiler in particular into this book.
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