Product Description

This text is intended to provide the reader with the essentials of dog anatomy and has been produced for people who enjoy dogs and wish to know a little more about their overall structure. Consequently dog owners, breeders, exhibitors, judges - anyone requiring information about the anatomy of the dog - should find the book useful. It should also be of interest to students beginning a course in veterinary anatomy. The emphasis throughout the book is placed on those points of anatomy that can be seen or felt from the surface through the skin. Surface views therefore form an important component of many of the drawings. A number of other drawings specifically relate internal anatomy to the surface of the body. Therefore the position and relationships of various internal components of the vaascular, digestive, respiratory and urogenital systems are shown in surface projections.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #115398 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09-16
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

About the Author
Dr Peter Goody was for many years a Lecturer in Anatomy at the Royal Veterinary College in London. He is the author of Horse Anatomy: A Pictorial Approach to Equine Structure also published by J.A. Allen.

Customer Reviews

Illustrations of a very high standard
This book contains illustrations that are clear and relatively simple to understand. I do not know of a better book to have to help learn anatomy if you are a student, or to add scientific accuracy if you are in the dog show world. The zooarchaeologists could do themselves a bit of good too, if they looked at this book.

not what i wanted or expected
This book was bought to assist in my coursework. I anticipated that as well as information stating what each part of the dog is a brief explaination of what that part does would follow(especially for glands, internal organs etc) but it doesn't. The diagrams are great, but it's equally difficult in finding the name as the pictures are number coded and parts just listed, and some pages have more than one peice of anatomy.
If you are training to be a vet and already have a vague understanding of canine anatomy this may be ok, but for a novice working on canine behaviour and psychology who is just interested in more information about the physical aspects of the dog its too confusing and doesn't give any medical information at all. Unfortunately there aren't many canine anatomy books available on the site so I didn't have much choice.