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Dogs Don't Bite When a Growl Will Do Weinstein, Matt
Perigee Books 0399529160 / 9780399529160 1st Edition 2003 Hardcover, DJ, 284 pages New Copy
>Every dog lover knows that man's best friend is sincere and loyal and knows how to have fun - and that dogs are wonderful creatures who have no difficulty showing their love openly. Filled with captivating photos of dogs, both deep in thought and diligently at play, this delightful volume teaches you Everything You Need to Know . . . from a dog's-eye view.
Dogs Don't Bite When a Growl Will Do is an insightful, engaging, and witty guide to the collective wisdom of our constant companions . . . and illustrates how we can all benefit from becoming a little more canine in our human interactions.
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The Complete DOG OWNERS Manual Marder, Amy DVM
Broadway Books 1st Edition 1997 0767900014 / 9780767900010 Hardcover, DJ, 224 pages
Written by two dog-care experts, this lively, full-color guide to raising healthy and happy dogs, with information on the top 100 breeds, is the definitive resource for every dog owner.
Illustrated throughout with over 400 full-color photographs and illustrations and filled with sound, practical advice, The Complete Dog Owner's Manual covers every aspect of adding a dog to the family and making him or her feel right at home. It provides essential information on selecting a dog; buying basic equipment from leashes and collars to housing and bedding; and taking care of day-to-day tasks such as feeding and grooming. Instructions on training are presented in a clear, easy-to-understand style, and sections on nutrition, exercise requirements, and health care ensure the pet's well-being. To help owners identify and learn about their dog, 100 of the most popular breeds are described in detail.
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The Dog's Book Of Romance Ledher, Kate
Andrews McMeel 2005 0740754815 / 9780740754814 Hardcover, DJ, New copy Lisa Sachs
Dogs are known for their loyalty and affection, but do these consummate companions have anything to teach us about romantic love? From the pages of The Dogs' Book of Romance, it's clear they do. In this dazzling collection of lush, full-color photographs, extraordinary canine couples reveal with wit and wisdom just what it takes to make romance last a lifetime. Photographer Lisa Sachs presents an array of gorgeous dog duos-from bulldogs to beagles-as they nuzzle, snuggle, and lavish each other with tender loving care. The captions of advice that accompany each photograph offer heartfelt and humorous reminders about how to keep the sparks flying in an intimate relationship.
* "Declare your affection," depicted by a Jack Russell terrier who's sweet on a Doberman pinscher.
* "Keep telling the story of how you met,' depicted by a pair of doting corgis.
* "Stay awake for pillow talk," depicted by two Westies about to hit the sack.
* "Intimacy begins when you let down your guard," depicted by a yellow and a black Lab as they work through relationship issues.
About the Author
Sisters-in-law Kate Ledger and Lisa Sachs present The Dogs' Book of Romance as the much-awaited follow-up to their successful debut, The Cats' Book of Romance. Currently at work on a novel, Kate holds an M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Arizona. Lisa, a graduate of Yale's master of fine arts program in photography, has shown her art in galleries in New York and Paris. She works as a freelance photographer in Washington, D.C.
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101 Salivations Rachael Hale
Bullfinch Press 2003 0821228579 / 9780821228579 New Hardcover
Anyone who loves dogs knows that they have their own unique personalities-they may be brave or timid, placid or hyper-but they're always soulful. In this collection of 101 arresting four-color portraits, Hale manages to capture the essential doggishness of her subjects, whether it's Hamish the Chihuahua's minuscule, quizzical face or the quiet intelligence of Loki, a Staffordshire bull terrier mix, sitting patiently with a kitten on his head. Though there are a few gratuitous props-a knitted cap on a Gordon setter, a pearl necklace on a Chinese Crested-the photographs don't descend into the realm of the kitschy and too-cute, partly because the dogs' expressive faces are the focus of the compositions. Hale tosses a few relevant quotes into the mix as well, e.g., Walt Whitman's "The dog is the god of frolic," and P.G. Wodehouse's "It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up." The appendix, which gives a brief description of each dog's story, adds dimension to the photographs. We learn, for example, that Jabba, an eight-year-old pit bull, is just as shy as she looks. During the shoot, Hale says, she "ran terrified from the room...frightened by a fly."
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101 Training Tips For Your Dog Condax, Kate Delano
DTP 0440505682 / 9780440505686 Trade Paperback 219 pages
A professional dog trainer explains how to work with a dog's inborn abilities and characteristics to eliminate bad behavior and make life happier on both ends of the leash. Using an A-Z format, this guide discusses pack behavior, the importance of establishing who is "top dog," and how to use praise and correction over punishment to stop misbehavior. Photos.
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116 Ways to Spoil Your Dog Svete, Margaret
Hyperion 2001 0768688642 First Trade Paperback New 304 pages
Over the last few decades dogs have enjoyed a tremendous rise in status, from sleep-in-the-garage hound to eat-at-the-table VIP. At the same time, dog lovers with increased working hours have felt the need to remind these pets just how special they are by buying treats and plying them with goodies. Spoiling your pooch is in! This cool little book is a one-stop shopping guide for today's dog fancier, filled with tips on spoiling your dog, and how to find: dog-oriented day-trips and vacations, styling and fashion accessories, nutritious gormet treats, outrageous toys, luxury doghouses - you name it! Also included are lists of medical services, freebies, amd tips for improving a creature's comforts.
There are photos, famous quotes, and fun facts about dogs and their crazed owners.
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8 Weeks to a Healthy Dog Messonnier, Shawn
Rodale 1579547257 / 9781579547257 Softcover, 256 pages New copy
Give your dog a long, healthy, happy life - in just 8 short weeks! Acclaimed holistic veterinarian Dr. Shawn Messonnier shows you how to combine the best preventive-care practices with the best that conventional and alternative medicine have to offer. The result? An amazing transformation in your dog's health, vitality, and well-being! Whether you've just bought a puppy or you have a dog who's definitely starting to show his age, you can put your pet on Dr. Shawn's 8-Week Program with confidence.
In 8 Weeks to a Healthy Dog, you'll discover:
* How to find the best holistic veterinarian for your pet
* How to tell if your dog is really healthy or if he's suffering from one of the "hidden" diseases that can rob you of years of his company. The best ways to get rid of fleas and ticks
* How to choose the most nutritious diet from the hundreds of dog foods on store shelves--or make a delicious diet at home that your dog will love!
* The essential supplements every dog needs for maximum health and vitality
* How to spot the major disease trigger that veterinarians often overlook--and how to prevent or reverse it
* Exercises and fun games to keep your dog in great shape (you'll enjoy them, too!)
* How to combat canine diseases with the latest and best conventional and natural remedies
* Grooming tips and techniques that keep your dog looking good and feeling great
8 Weeks to a Healthy Dog is the best gift you can give your dog - and your family!
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A Big Little Life: Memoir of a Joyful Dog Dean Koontz
Hyperion 2009 1401323529 / 9781401323523 New hardcover
DEAN KOONTZ thought he had everything he needed. A successful novelist with more than twenty #1 New York Times bestsellers to his credit, Dean had forged a career out of industry and imagination. He had been married to his high school sweetheart, Gerda, since the age of twenty, and together they had made a happy life for themselves in their Southern California home. It was the picture of peace and contentment. Then along came Trixie. Dean had always wanted a dog - had even written several books in which dogs were featured. But not until Trixie was he truly open to the change that such a beautiful creature could bring about in him. Trixie had intelligence, a lack of vanity, and an uncanny knack for living in the present. And because she was joyful and direct as all dogs are, she put her heart into everything - from chasing tennis balls, to playing practical jokes, to protecting those she loved. A retired service dog with Canine Companions for Independence, Trixie became an assistance dog of another kind. She taught Dean to trust his instincts, persuaded him to cut down to a fifty-hour work week, and, perhaps most important, renewed in him a sense of wonder that will remain with him for the rest of his life. She mended him in many ways. Trixie weighed only sixty-something pounds, Dean occasionally called her Short Stuff, and she lived less than twelve years. In this big world, she was a little thing, but in all the ways that mattered, including the effect she had on those who loved her, she lived a big life.
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A Dog Book: Stories, Poetry, Recipes, Care, Training, Games, Humor Parragon
Parragon 2007 1407505858 / 9781407505855 New hardcover
A fascinating treasury of stories, poems, activities, recipes, advice, tips, and humor to indulge all dog lovers. Designed with timeless illustrations, this delightful book is packed with everything you need to know about dogs, along with plenty of fun facts and tidbits to curl up with.
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A Dog Is Listening Caras, Roger A.
Simon & Schuster 0671797263 / 9780671797263 1993 Trade Paperback New copy 239 pages
Through a brilliant combination of biology, psychology, and personal anecdote, noted wildlife authority Roger Caras shows us how dogs view the world around them and the people in it. He transports us into a world beyond human perception; we learn the dynamics of how dogs catch frisbees, why they love to be scratched, why they bark, and why dog food tastes so good to them. This loving look at man's most faithful friend is delightfully illustrated with photographs, and is sure to warm the hearts of dog lovers everywhere.
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A Dog's Best Friend Jan Fennell
HarperCollins UK 2006 0007153724 / 9780007153725 Softcover New copy
Through touching and emotive anecdotes, internationally-acclaimed author and dog trainer Jan Fennell shares with us the successes, set-backs and secrets that will strike a chord with dog lovers everywhere. In an age of selfishness and misunderstanding, the virtues of duty, loyalty and sacrifice have become symbols of a bygone age. Perhaps this is one of the more subtle reasons why we are drawn to our dogs - creatures for whom all these positive attributes are purely instinctive.
In this series of inspirational stories, drawn from her vast wealth of experience with both dogs and their owners, Jan Fennell recounts some of the greatest acts of kindness, heroism, loyalty and compassion that she has ever witnessed. And in recounting these inspirational tales, Jan demonstrates, with heart-rending sensitivity, the qualities that distinguish a good owner from a truly great one. This touching, poignant book complements Jan's practical series of best-selling titles with inspirational tales of set-backs, successes and occasional heart-ache. It is the perfect gift for dog lovers everywhere.
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A Dog's History of America Mark Derr
North Point Press; 1st edition 2005 1st Edition 2004 0865476314 / 9780865476318 Hardcover, DJ New copy
If dogs did not come with the first people to enter North America over 10,000 years ago, then they were not far behind, and dogs have been part of the peopling of the continent ever since. Derr, writer-historian and author of a previous work on the human-dog relationship [Dog's Best Friend (1997)], presents a history of the dog in the New World, following their changing role in human societies and their importance to the survival of those societies.
Using historical records and personal accounts from people living at the time, the author presents a story that ranges from the brutal Spanish conquest of the Caribbean and South America (greatly aided by their dogs of war), the use of bloodhounds to track runaway slaves and other prisoners, and the rise of the concept of purebred dogs. In the final chapter, Derr looks at the roles that dogs play in today's society and calls for changes in how we view the place of the dog. This fascinating history is both harsh and touching.
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A Dog's Life Mayle, Peter
0679762671 / 9780679762676 Trade paperback New copy
Both canine "memoir" and cautionary tale, this sprightly account of the further adventures of Boy, Mayle's real-life dog first introduced in Toujours Provence, is a gem of its kind.
As animated by Mayle, Boy is a clever chap given to literary allusions, urbane observations and stinging bon mots. With many an arch and insightful comment, Boy celebrates his life after he escapes from his first owner, a brutish farmer, and is adopted by a kindly woman (thereafter called madame) and her "other half," a rather dim-witted soul who is of course Mayle himself. Boy's encounters with wrathful butchers and irate owners of dogs in heat and of treed cats are the high points of this picaresque tale, balanced by his admonitions on how to acquire social polish and communicate effectively with insensitive humans. From his spot under the dining-room table, Boy receives "a wide ranging, eclectic education," learning chiefly that "the management," as he calls his owners, are incorrigible and bibulous party givers. Boy himself proves incorrigible too: in hilarious scenes, he explains how he overestimates human intelligence time and again.
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A History of Dogs in the Early Americas Schwartz, Marion
Yale University Press 1997 0300075197 / 9780300075199 Trade Paperback
A fascinating history of dogs in the pre-Columbian Americas, from a research assistant in anthropology at Yale. Working from ethnohistorical accounts, chronicles, codices, hieroglyphics, linguistic sources, and artwork, Marion Schwartz takes the measure of what dogs meant to the early Americans. She goes back into the mists, detailing morphological, ecological, and genetic traits that, combined with the cultural and biological components of domestication, make a dog a dog and not a wolf gone soft. Schwartz covers familiar ground as she describes what is thought to be the first human association with dogs (as camp guards, scavengers, and pack animals); the dawning awareness among humans that a dog's superior sight, hearing, and smell could be used to advantage in stalking game (from the Iglulik of the far north, who used them to hunt musk oxen, to the Patagonians way south, who employed them in hunting guanacos); and the growing importance of dogs in the myths of such diverse groups as the Cheyenne and Penobscot, the Inca, Aztec, and Mayan cultures.
The book starts to get really interesting when Schwartz delves into cultures that ate dogs (as either a spiritual or gastronomic delicacy), and into the fancy rituals fashioned to rationalize the consumption of a creature that humans found a little more kindred than, say, a chicken. Her foray into the symbolic and metaphorical complexities of pre-Columbian art about dogs - the dog as archetype, as omen and totem, as guide to the afterlife - is much the best part of the book, as Schwartz relaxes, hits a fanciful speculative stride, and shows off her research talents to their best advantage. For the Indians, no less than for modern Americans, having a dog around required evaluating the benefits of 'keeping dogs versus the cost of maintaining them.' The benefits began winning out, Schwartz demonstrates, a long time ago.
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A Prince Among Dogs Callie Smith Grant
Revell 2007 0800758676 / 9780800758677 New Softcover
Pets are such a big part of so many of our lives. As any pet lover knows, a wagging tail or a tender purr can soothe the soul after a hard day. And sometimes, the presence of dogs and cats in our lives can do even more. In these delightful books, Callie Smith Grant collects stories that celebrate the dogs in our lives - stories that touch our hearts, renew our spirit, and show us how God created these beasts for unique purposes. A funny little dog named Prince earns his title by protecting the children of the house. A lively litter of puppies soothes a troubled child. You'll meet a three-legged survivor who helps heal a broken family, a funny mutt who brings laughter to a house filled with anxiety, a local celebrity pup who brings smiles and customers to a couple's store, and many more ordinary and extraordinary canines. Well-known authors as well as new voices share their inspirational true stories of these otherwise ordinary cats and dogs whose presence in the lives of humans make them remarkable. Also includes interesting sidebars, memorable quotes, helpful hints for living with dogs, and a foreword by H. Norman Wright. The stories are warm, captivating, and ideal for a good curl-up-and-read or for a gift to any pet lover. Dog lovers, and anyone who likes to read uplifting stories will cherish these books.
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A Shepherd's Watch David Kennard
Thomas Dunne 2005 0312332661 / 9780312332662 Hardcover, DJ New
Charismatic David Kennard lives a life most people can only dream about. Farming on a spectacularly beautiful part of the Devon coast he has an almost telepathic bond with nature and with his working sheepdogs. His is a life filled with daily challenges, from the battles with wild Atlantic weather to the dramas of clifftop rescue, but it is also a life full of the richness of rebirth, and the Herriotesque delight in a way of life that has remained almost untouched by the modern world. Part diary, part homage to the countryside and the canine family that is so much a part of his life, David Kennard's extraordinary book is designed to touch the hearts and minds of city and country dwellers alike.
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A Three Dog Life Abigail Thomas
Harcourt 2006 0151012113 / 9780151012114 New hardcover
When Abigail Thomas's husband, Rich, was hit by a car, his brain shattered. Subject to rages, terrors, and hallucinations, he must live the rest of his life in an institu tion. He has no memory of what he did the hour, the day, the year before. This tragedy is the ground on which Abigail had to build a new life. How she built that life is a story of great courage and great change, of moving to a small country town, of a new family composed of three dogs, knitting, and friendship, of facing down guilt and discovering gratitude. It is also about her continued relationship with Rich, a man who lives in the eternal present, and the eerie poetry of his often uncanny perceptions. This wise, plainspoken, beautiful book enacts the truth Abigail discovered in the five years since the acci dent: You might not find meaning in disaster, but you might, with effort, make something useful of it.
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Adopted Dog Bible Petfinder.com
Harper 2009 0061435597 / 9780061435591 New softcover Cover crease (transit damage)
The old rules don't always apply to adopted dogs, whose training, past behaviors, and health histories may be a mystery. At last, here's the one-stop bible that acknowledges their special needs and covers every detail of daily life. In chapters reviewed by experts in veterinary medicine, nutrition, and training, pet parents will learn:
* Where to find your perfect canine companion
* All about breeds and mixed breeds and how you can adopt any type of dog
* Smart guidelines for adoption success
* Realistic expenses of dog care
* What to expect when you bring your new pup home (and long after)
* How to prevent runaways and protect your dog from all types of harm
* Clicker, target stick, and other re-training methods
* Humane ways to modify undesirable behaviors
* How to introduce new diets and take the guesswork out of feeding
* Holistic and conventional medical treatments
* Daily hygiene and caring for your sick pup inside and out
* The impact of travel and changes at home
* What to do when it's time to say good-bye
Plus recipes, doggy workouts, heartwarming true stories of adopted dogs and their happy parents, information on saving dogs on a larger scale, and much, much more!
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Always Faithful: Marine Dogs of WW2 William W. Putney
Free Press 2001 0743201981 / 9780743201988 New Softcover
Twenty-three-year-old Bill Putney enlisted in the Marines in 1943 in search of military glory. Instead, Putney, a licensed veterinarian, was relegated to the Dog Corps. Putney became the Commanding Officer of the 3rd War Dog Platoon, and later the chief veterinarian and C.O. of the War Dog Training School at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. At Lejeune Putney helped train America's dogs for war in the Pacific. He later led them into combat in the invasion of Guam in 1944, the first liberation of American soil in World War II. Always Faithful is the story of the dogs that fought in Guam and across the islands of the Pacific, a celebration of the four-legged soldiers that Putney both commanded and followed. It is a tale of immense courage, but also of incredible sacrifice.
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