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|author=Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje
|summary=I think it's fair to say that you're not even going to pick this book up unless you're a dog lover. If you've always yearned for a cat and shudder at the thought of early morning walks in the rain then this is definitely no the book for you. But - if you know, or are known by a dog then it's the equivalent of that massive hamper of chocolate delights to a chocoholic. Only a magazine like the ''New Yorker'' could raid its archives and produce such a massive compendium of humour, illustrations, essays, fiction, poems and cartoons about dogs, or have a cast of writers which could put many a bookshop to shame.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>043402239X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mike Henley
|title=One Dog and His Man
|rating=4
|genre=Pets
|summary=Oberon is a Labrador with a pedigree as long as your arm and ''One Dog and His Man'' is his story about what it's like living with the man he generously refers to as ''The Boss'', about life in general and the ways of the world. Think of him as the canine equivalent of the parliamentary sketch writer, there to highlight the idiosyncrasies of human life and bring a gentle humour to situations which might otherwise be taken far too seriously. Before you wonder how this is possible - how a dog can write a book - let me remind you that dogs are very intelligent animals. After all, dogs and their humans might go to what are laughingly called 'dog training classes', but it's the humans who are trained, not the dogs.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471660354</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sophie Collins
|title=Tricks and Games To Teach Your Dog: How to Turn Your Much-Loved Pet into an Accomplished Performer
|rating=4
|genre=Pets
|summary=Over a lifetime of owning dogs, from the small and nippy Jack Russells to the large and loving Rhodesian Ridgebacks, I've learned that the more you do with your dog - the more you interact - the better your dog will be. People say that they're not great conversationalists (personally I'd disagree) but they have a tremendous willingness to please and they love to have fun with you. Sophie Collins has put together a collections of tricks and games which you can teach your dog and they range from the ''sit'', ''stay'' and ''down'' of basic training through to quite complicated tasks and agility training. There's something there for every size and every age.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005696</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jill Abramson
|title=The Puppy Diaries: Living with a Dog Named Scout
|rating=4
|genre=Pets
|summary=Jill Abramson had a dog whom she adored - a White West Highland by the name of Buddy - and after his death she wasn't certain that she wanted another dog. Would she bond with the newcomer? Would she always be comparing the pup with his predecessor? But - times change - and in 2009 Jill and her husband Henry brought home a Golden Retriever by the name of Scout. Over the following year Abramson wrote a column about raising Scout for the New York Times website and it's this column which forms the basis for 'The Puppy Diaries: Living With a Dog Named Scout'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444720635</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jeffrey Masson
|title=Dogs Never Lie About Love: Why Your Dog Will Always Love You More Than Anyone Else
|rating=3.5
|genre=Pets
|summary=Readers come to books for strange reasons but I don't think that I've ever before picked up a book, looked at the title and being intrigued not by what was suggested but by how anyone could think differently. 'Dogs Never Lie About Love' is a statement of the obvious to me. I've lived with and around dogs for most of my life and I know that dogs are incapable of pretence. I've never met a dog I couldn't trust: if it doesn't like me, it will tell me so straight away. It will not attempt to trick me. I only wish that I could say the same about most of the humans I encounter.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099740613</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Cavill
|title=Canine Perspectives
|rating=3
|genre=Pets
|summary=David Cavill has spent much of his adult life around dogs, with the Finnish Spitz holding a special place in his heart. Amongst other things - he was founder of the Animal Care College, worked as a senior manager at Battersea Dogs' Home, judging and advising on the selection, care and training of pedigree and mongrel dogs - he wrote a regular column for ''Our Dogs'' newspaper and ''Dogs Monthly''. It's these and other articles which are reproduced here and as there's a time span of fifteen years they allow the reader to see what has changed and - probably more importantly - what hasn't.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468104780</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sam Hay
|title=Archie the Guide Dog Puppy: Hero in Training
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I don't often pick up a non-fiction book for the 7+ age group, find it riveting reading and informative about a subject with which I'm already familiar, but that was the case with ''Archie: Hero in Training''. Archie is a puppy destined to be a guide dog for a blind person and he's just one story in a book about the pups-in-training, the working dogs, the adults who have guide dogs, or struggle to learn the techniques - or even what happens to the dogs who don't turn out to be what's needed. There's a full range as well as information about what a guide dog costs - and it's not cheap!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033053792X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Matt Whyman
|title=Pig in the Middle
|rating=4.5
|genre=Pets
|summary=
I'm so pleased I read this book. It's only the occasional writer who grabs me by the short and curlies with his observation of human nature, but accomplished children's writer Matt Whyman not only grabbed me, but sold me on the mini-pigs as well.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444711466</amazonuk>
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