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Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Cesar takes on the topic of training for the first time, explaining the importance of balance as the foundation for a healthy relationship between you and your dog. To provide a variety of training options, Cesar calls upon experts in the field, including Bob Bailey, Ian Dunbar, Joel Silverman, and Mark Harden, to help you find the perfect approach that works for you and your dog, whether a new puppy or an old dog. He shares the most effective and...
Author
Publisher
The Countryman Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The story of Olive and Mabel, Labrador retrievers who rose to internet fame as the subjects of Andrew Cotter's BBC sports parodies. When sporting events were put on hold in March 2020, commentator Andrew Cotter shifted to working from home. The one-on-one competitors? His two Labrador retrievers, Olive and Mabel. In the hilarious videos that ensued, the dogs engage in various contests, from bone-snatching and breakfast-eating to crushing it on the...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Inside of a Dog and The Year of the Puppy, an eye-opening, informative, "entertaining, and enlightening" (BookPage) celebration of the human-canine relationship for the curious dog owner and science-lover alike.
We keep dogs and are kept by them. We love dogs and (we assume) we are loved by them. We buy them sweaters, toys, shoes; we are concerned with their social lives, their food, and their health....
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
Hannah was Burchett's best friend, so when he first learned of Hannah's cancer diagnosis, he decided to take whatever time he had left with Hannah to cherish the moments and capture his thoughts in a journal. As he wrote about his canine friend, he soon realized that Hannah was an able (and furry) mentor of faith, grace, kindness, and forgiveness. When Hannah lived well past the expected time frame, Burchett started to see that through Hannah's antics,...
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Edie is an unusually anxious dog. She cowers around most people and the slightest noise sends her into a frenzy. Edie's fears become so intense that May can't leave the house. Is this normal puppy behavior or something more? May grows determined to fix Edie, but what will she do if Edie can't be fixed? In this poignant and heartfelt memoir, May shares her unforgettable journey with Edie, and the lessons about selflessness and unconditional love that...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"One of the sharpest attorneys in Charleston, S.C., Sally Baynard isn't your typical southern belle. She's certainly not what her mother hoped she'd grow up to be, especially since she divorced her husband, Family Court Judge Joe Baynard, and his historic family with their historic wealth and historic houses. Maybe Sally was never going to be a proper society lady, but her success as a public defender and family lawyer have been enough for her. She's...
Publisher
Kirschenbaum Productions, LLC
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This hilarious and poignant documentary explores the positive effects of the intense bond between dogs and humans, as told through the story of Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Gayle Kirschenbaum and her dog Chelsea. As seen on HBO.
12) Bite the biscuit
Author
Series
Barkery & Biscuits mysteries volume 1
Barkery and Biscuits mysteries volume 1
A Barkery and Biscuits mystery volume 1
Barkery and Biscuits mysteries volume 1
A Barkery and Biscuits mystery volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When veterinary technician Carrie Kennersly has a chance to buy a local bakery, she jumps at the chance and converts half of it into the Barkery, a shop where she can make and sell canine delights. Myra Ethman, co-owner of another pet product store, hates the new competition, and at the Barkery's opening party she badmouths Carrie's homemade dog biscuits, insisting she'll find a way to shut the place down. When Myra is found dead with a Barkery biscuit...
Author
Series
Pampered pets mystery volume 10
Publisher
BelleBooks, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Will Wade's dark past destroy their chance to find love again?
14) I'm my own dog
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A dog without a human companion fetches his own slippers and curls up at his own feet but cannot reach a certain itchy spot in the middle of his back, compelling him to leash a poor lonely human who will loyally offer a helpful scratch.
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The relationship between man and dog is explored through behavior, anthropology, history, literature and genetics, including the essential bonds of trust, loyalty and service that mark humankind's most valuable and long-lived animal friendships.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Speck is not a good boy. He is a terrible boy, a defiant, self-destructive, often malodorous boy, a grave robber and screen door moocher who spends his days playing chicken with the Fed Ex man, picking fights with thousand-pound livestock and rolling in donkey manure and his nights howling at the moon. He has been that way since the moment he appeared on the ridgeline behind Rick Bragg's house, a starved and half-dead creature, 76 pounds of wet hair...
Author
Publisher
Hubble & Hattie
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Your dog and you ... understanding the canine psyche examines the relationship between people and dogs from a psychological perspective, incorporating Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to facilitate this: uniquely, the first time that CBT has been used to help owners relate to their dogs. A dog's behaviour can be a reflection of the emotions an owner may be experiencing; it follows that insight into our behaviour using CBT to reduce emotional unrest...
18) Dog days
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ericka Waller's Dog Days is a debut novel about the way dogs can bring out the best in us in the face of life's challenges. George is a grumpy, belligerent old man who has just lost his wife. She has left him notes around the home and a miniature dachshund puppy called Poppy. But George doesn't want a dog, he wants to fight everyone who is trying to help him. Dan has OCD but has channeled his energy into his career as a therapist. Afraid to acknowledge...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on a camping trip, Ted Kerasote met a dog--a Labrador mix--who was living on his own in the wild. They became attached to each other, and Kerasote decided to name the dog Merle and bring him home. There, he realized that Merle's native intelligence would be diminished by living exclusively in the human world. He put a dog door in his house so Merle could live both outside and in. This portrait of a remarkable dog and his relationship with the...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Anne grew up in an abusive home, leading to severe depression and a determination to do better as a mother. One of her sons wants a dog from the time he is a baby; Anne very much does not. For years she appeases him with creatures who live in cages and tanks, but on his tenth birthday she can no longer say no--and she proceeds to fall in love with their new four-legged family member, Mattie. Then Mattie dies a sudden and tragic death, and Anne feels...
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