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|summary=David Cavill has spent much of his adult life around I struggle to resist a book about dogs, with the Finnish Spitz holding but I did wonder why this one was so ''thin'': given that I've never encountered a special place in his heart. Amongst other things dog who wasn't interesting or important - he and probably both, I was founder of the Animal Care College, worked as expecting a senior manager at Battersea Dogsmassive tome. But '' Home, judging and advising on the selection, care and training A Dictionary of pedigree Interesting and mongrel dogs - he wrote a regular column for Important Dogs''Our Dogsis actually '' newspaper a rich compendium of the world's most significant and beloved dogs''Dogs Monthly'and it's certainly a rich treasure trove. ItWe begin with Peter J Conradi's these four collies: Cloudy, Sky. Bradley and other articles which are reproduced here and as thereMax. They're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogs, but what comes over is Conradi's a time span love for each and every one of fifteen years they allow the reader to see what has changed and - probably more importantly - what hasn'tthem. I knew that I was in safe hands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468104780</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Hay1787112926|title=Archie the Guide Dog Puppy: Hero in TrainingWorzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too?|author=Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=I don't often pick up a non-fiction book for the 7+ age group, find it riveting reading When we [[Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend? by Catherine Pickles and informative about a subject with which I'm already familiar, but that Chantal Bourgonje|last met Worzel Woolface]] he was the case with ''Archie: Hero in Training''. Archie is a puppy destined to be a guide rather frightened 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 neededhad difficulty meeting people. ThereHe's a full range as well as information about what bit better now and something which he really enjoys is going for a guide dog costs - and it's not cheap!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033053792X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Matt Whyman|title=Pig in the Middle|rating=4.5|genre=Pets|summary=I'm so pleased I read this bookwalk. It's only the occasional writer who grabs me by the short not just a case of attaching a lead and curlies with his observation heading for your favourite spot - there are a lot of human nature, but accomplished children's writer Matt Whyman not only grabbed me, but sold me on the mini-pigs as wellother things to think about first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444711466</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gordon GriceHainsworth_Gina|title=The Book of Deadly AnimalsTalking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth

|genre=Popular ScienceGraphic Novels|summary=Animals and humans have long mixed, even though ''This is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the one has almost always proven capable length of being lethal the country, Brighton to the otherGrimsby, to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and one working eye. Many scientists in Why not? The first night at home, Gina – the past decided animals killing humans were aberrantdog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a mess, and that the real animal knew so it was second best to humans's not a great start, having been saved in but then begin the Arktribulations of training, status and respected our dominion over thembehaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. Even now, it seemsAnd then, the life with Gina begins to feel like too much – ''I felt weird about you because you were always there are opinions that creatures attacking mankind are somehow rogue and need destroying. But where is the wrong My thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, as if I was in an animal behaving as its nature compels it? love.'' SimilarlySlowly, the human wandering around the wildernesshowever, everyone – our artist/author, or even the idiot woman feeding a black bear her own toddler's honey-dripping hand (true story - what husband, two children and two cats – gets to form the bear thought of the taste of honeyed fingers we don't know) is just the same in reverse - humans behaving as only humans canfamily they and Gina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919675</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom RyanIngram_Kammie|title=Following Atticus: How a little dog led one man on a journey of rediscovery to the top of the world Conversations with Kammie|author=Annie Ingram

|genre=PetsHumour|summary=Tom Ryan is It was something of a middlerelief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, Annie knows something which has been self-aged, stressed journalist, running his own newspaper, the ''Undertoad'' in Newburyport in America. His life is full evident to me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of political intrigues communicating with humans and mayoral electionsnot just on a level of food! walk! or play!. You do require extensive training to become fluent, boardroom deals but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and subterfuge all you have to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and his life is full the pair have allowed us to share some of challenges. He doesn't need a dog. He doesn't even particularly want a dog, but when a miniature schnauzer enters his life one day, everything changestheir conversations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141048972</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Betty G BirneyMattinson_Puppy|title=Humphrey's World of PetsChoosing the Perfect Puppy|author=Pippa Mattinson|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=The verb to pet means to cossetIf you have ever, for even a fleeting moment, pay loving attention tothought about getting a puppy, you really ought to have loving, touching time withread this book. It might as well mean to have Too many people are carried away in your household while spending a lot the heat of money on, the moment and being duty-bound ''must'' have a particular breed and beholden togo ahead without any thought about the consequences. Fish (They then have to live with the problems which you can't even properly pet, of course) need 'might'' have been avoided for a permanent power supply for their water's thermometerdecade or more. Chinchillas need a special sand for their bathing inThe puppy and the adult dog also has to live with an owner who might not be able to accommodate his needs. There's even pet[[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go-friendly detergents for washing out your hamster cagesto author on matters dog related: she talks sense. Wherever She doesn't try to talk you look there's time out of getting a particular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the facts and money expenditure in owning a petallows you to make your own decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571270263</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom CoxPickles_Worzel|title=Talk to the Tail: Adventures in Cat Ownership Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend?|author=Catherine Pickles and BeyondChantal Bourgonje|rating=45

|summary=Are I'd like you to meet Worzel, but you'll need to do exactly what I say. Worzel is quite a cat person weaned on [[Dewey: The True Story of a World-famous Library Cat by Vicki Myron and Brett Witter|Dewey the library cat]]big dog, or Marilyn Edwardsbut that doesn't mean that he' rural tales s fierce, or Doreen Toveyeven very brave. In fact, he's precious Siamese stories? Do frightened, and little as you enjoy cosyare, slightly twee reminiscences he's frightened of much loved felinesyou. He'd like to meet you though: can you see that nose just poking out from the side of the sofa? If so, look away now… Now he'Talk to s peering over the Tailcushion - and finally, he' is s risking leaving that rare bird: a cat eulogy written by a man. As such it features rather more incidents involving fights, bottom washing, urine stained rugs and feline sexual exploits than your average book about cats. O.K. Ivery safe place he'm exaggerating slightlys found, but reader be warned; behind the mad cat man is a different beast to the mad cat woman. It's less furry babies and more furry nightmaressofa.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184737817X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denis O'Connorinstagram_dogs|title=Paw Tracks at Owl CottageDogs on Instagram|author=@dogsofinstagram

|summary=I'Paw Tracks at Owl Cottagem a sucker for dogs: I can' is t walk past one in the story of four pedigree Maine Coon cats which the author street without stopping and his wife acquired after moving back having a conversation, sometimes without bothering to a cottage where they had previously lived. This is the sequel speak to a volume called 'Paw Tracks in the Moonlight'owners, which I have not readso a book of pictures of dogs was going to be right up my street. The wildly popular @dogs_of_instagram, run by Ahmed El Shourbagy and his wife Ashley and which features their first cat Toby Juglaunched just four years ago gives us this book of over four hundred photographs of dogs. Apparently, on his demise, they Originally I had sold no intention of reviewing it: in fact I wasn't even intending to read the cottage; but nowbook, just to have a little more advanced quick flick through, but within five minutes I was showing other people in years, they buy it again, and do extensive renovations before deciding that it's ready for another catthe office the picture of the Weimaraner riding a bicycle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849016402</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Megan RixPrendergast_Digger|title=Dog on a Digger: The Puppy That Came For Christmas and Stayed ForeverTricky Incident|author=Kate Prendergast|rating=45

|summary=Megan Rix I'm going to tell you a story about Dog, Man, Lady and husband Ian took on two massive challenges at the same timePup. Their failure to conceive a child became something of They all work on an issue with Megan beingindustrial site - in fact, as she herself said 'north Dog and Man live there in a caravan and Man drives the sort of forty'digger which is dreamed about by boys large and small. Time was passing quickly Lady and it looked the Pup run the snack bar and one day as though IVF was the only option if they were 're all having something to have eat, the long-for childPup goes missing. ItMan and Lady search everywhere but it's timeDog's sharp ears which finally track him down -consuming and traumatic. At the same time the couple became involved with caught in a branch over a charity which provides helper dogs for people with disabilitiesfast-flowing stream. Puppies come And it's Dog who works out how to a family for six months rescue him. I needed 88 words to do their basic training and then move on. And tell you that was how Emmastory, but Kate Prendergast does it without using a soft, sweetsingle one -natured, adorable puppy came into their lives. Predictably, they fell and she tells it in love with hera far more engaging way than I could ever manage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951062</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vicki Myron and Brett WitterStrachan_50Cat|title=Dewey's Nine Lives: The Legacy of the Small-town Library Cat Who Inspired Millions|rating=4|genre=Pets|summary=Having read [[Dewey: The True Story of a World-famous Library 50 Games to Play With Your Cat by Vicki Myron and Brett Witter|Dewey: The Small-town Library-cat Who Touched the World]] and having thoroughly enjoyed reading about that delightful cat's escapades in Spencer Library, I was intrigued to discover that the author, Vicki Myron, had written a follow up book entitled Dewey's Nine Lives. At first I thought this might hold many more stories about Dewey but it turned out that this was a collection of short stories each featuring a different exceptional cat. All of their owners had been so moved after reading about Dewey that they felt compelled to contact Vicki and share their stories. Dewey's Nine Lives is a tribute to cats and their owners everywhere.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847378560</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Judith Summers|title=The Badness of King George|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=People know how to get round me: they offer me a book and then say 'It's about a dog' and like Pavlov's canine I say 'Oh, lovely'. And so it was with The Badness of King George. George is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and I have to quibble with the title – superb as it is – because George is not bad. If anything he's badly done by as Judith Summers, plagued by empty nest syndrome when her son goes to university, decides to foster rescue dogs. Poor George has absolutely no idea what she's let him in for. And nor has Judith.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141046473</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Axel Scheffler|title=How to Keep a Pet Squirrel|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=So, how do you keep a pet squirrel? Well, the simple answer is that you don't. They're wild animals and not at all suitable for keeping in captivity, but accepted thinking didn't always run that way. It was whilst he was dipping into ''The Children's Encyclopaedia'' of 1910 that Axel Scheffler came across a small but indispensible guide to obtaining and caring for your pet squirrel. His inventive mind came up with these beautiful illustrations to accompany the text and if you're looking for an amusing gift for an animal-loving adult then this book could well be the answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571255981</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steve Duno|title=Last Dog On The HillJackie Strachan

|summary=Driving through northern California Steve Duno found a puppy by the side of the roadCats love to play. It is written in their DNA. He was flea-bitten, tic infestedFrom kittenhood onward, emaciated and suffering from an infection. His father was a Rottweiler and his mother innate curiosity about the world around them spurs cats to view everything as a German Shepherd - both were guard dogs at the local marijuana farmpotential plaything. When Steve whistled For cats, the dog came desire to him and play helps them to hone their hunting skills. For cat owners, it's no exaggeration provides an opportunity to say bond with a much-loved pet and create special moments that in that moment his life changedare entertaining to both cat and human alike. He'd always wanted a dogIf you are stuck for ideas for games to play with your cat, but hadn't been able or would simply like to have one as a child. There was a moment's indecision at the side try something new, then 50 Games To Play With Your Cat provides plenty of the road – and then Lou became Steve's doginspiration.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330520024</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Finden and Linda Watson-BrownLeask_Miracle|title=Casper the Commuting CatMiracle: The True Story of the Cat Who Rode the Bus and Stole Our Heartsextraordinary dog that refused to die|author=Amanda Leask

|summary=In 2009 as Susan Finden set out to catch the bus from the bus stop opposite Amanda Leask has been obsessed with dogs all her house in Plymouth she noticed her cat Casper watching her. Afraid he would follow her across life and it's been an obsession which needs the busy road she urged world and a lot of its attitudes to dogs to change for the bus driver to move off quicklybetter. But when the bus driver told her that 'She's not daunted by the only thing youobstacles: she've got s simply determined to worry about is do all that she possibly can to make the world a better place for dogs. Amanda lives with her husband Tobias, son Kyle and more than twenty rescue and sled dogs near Inverness. Very nice, you're sitting in his seat,'probably thinking. Wouldn' Susan finally had the answer t we all like to where Casper disappeared to each dayhave that sort of lifestyle? But hold on a minute.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857200089</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Fine and Ruth BrownPrendergast_Train|title=Ruggles|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Every dog owner has known Dog on a dog like RugglesTrain: they're so good at escaping from where ever they are that they're generally known as Houdini. Ruggles had it all worked out, from the opportunist hop over the fence aided by a pile of newspapers, a bucket and the rabbit hutch to who would snitch on him if he met them (unaccompanied) in the park. The dog lady knows him well and whilst you wouldn't quite call them friends it's obvious that Ruggles knows when he's met his match and hops in the van without complaint.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392064</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSpecial Delivery|author=Alexandra Horowitz|title=Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell and KnowKate Prendergast

|summary=IIt've long been aware that our two dogs have methods s one of those mornings for Boy: late out of bed he grabs at his hat and hurtles out of communication which are far more subtle than anything a mere human can muster. They sense exactly how we are feeling – a slight change in the atmosphere and they will be alert. The reactions house to a frown or a smile, laughter or tears are all different catch his train - only he drops his hat as he goes through the door and they're capable of communicating Dog chases after him with us the hat in ways which have no need of wordshis mouth. For a while I thought it was our dogs who were special They head to the tube station (well, Dog doesn''obviously'' they are…t forget to wait at the zebra crossing) with boy just twenty or so yards in front, but IDog is losing ground as he has to find someone to carry him on the escalator. He misses Boy've noticed other dogs communicating with each other and with humans s train and has to wait for the more next one, but remembers his manners well enough to stand up so that I see the more that I wonder why they are referred to as 'dumb animals'an old lady can have his seat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184737347X</amazonuk>Will he catch up with boy when he reaches London Kings Cross?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick WadleyMattinson_Labrador|title=Man + DogThe Labrador Handbook: The definitive guide to training and caring for your Labrador|author=Pippa Mattinson

|summary=If IIn 2014 about 16% of all pedigree puppies registered with the Kennel Club were Labradors - and that'm going out for the day s with over 200 breeds to enjoy myself I want my dogs with mechoose from. ItThey's not just that I enjoy their companyre one of the most respected breeds and with good reason - great as gundogs, but I don't like leaving them brilliant in the house for too longshow ring and a wonderful part of the family to boot. Ideas for days out are always welcomeAuthor Pippa Mattinson is a zoologist and founder of The Gundog Trust. It's good to know She supports modern, science-based dog training methods - but her passion is about pubs that are not going helping people to frown as enjoy their dogs. If you get to the door and if we're heading looking for advice about Labradors, she is going to the coast I like be difficult to know which beaches we can use and if there are any restrictionsbetter. ''Pubs, Beaches and Days Out'' aims to fill a hole! How does it do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956045952</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=www.dogfriendly.co.uk Perris_Dogs|title=Dog Friendly Camping and Caravan SitesBeautiful Dogs Postcard Book: Your Comprehensive Guide 30 Postcards of Champion Breeds to Dog Friendly Camping and Caravan SitesKeep or Send|author=Andrew Perris|rating=2.54

|summary=If you're going camping or caravanning itlooking for a present for a dog lover, Beautiful Dogs might fit the bill. It's not always easy to take your dogs with a book of thirty postcards, which you. Some sites don't allow dogs; others have restrictions on breeds, size can either send or number of dogs, whilst others make a chargekeep in the book. You're then faced with wondering whether there will be somewhere might expect to exercise find the dogs more usual breeds - Labradors, Retrievers and how easy it will be to get rid of thelike - but instead, er, deposits! you'll find more exotic breeds such as the Bedlington Terrier and the Bolognese. There'Dog Friendly Camping s just the one dog or bitch on each card and Caravan Sites: Your Comprehensive Guide Andrew Perris has managed to Dog Friendly Camping and Caravan Sites'' is give us an answer excellent view of the animal whilst allowing it to this, but it's nowhere near as comprehensive as the title would suggestlook completely natural.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956045936</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=www.dogfriendly.co.ukLaks_Gentle|title=Dog Friendly HotelsMy Gentle Barn: where animals heal and children learn to hope|author=Ellie Laks|rating=34.5

|summary=I have two big dogsAs a child, Ellie Laks was abused, but not only did she suffer at the hands of her abuser, she also had to endure parental indifference to what was happening to her. Her only relief came through animals - and even then she had to cope when the animals were taken from her. They're Rhodesian Ridgebacks – quietAs an adult, wellshe discovered that she had a real talent for healing animals -behaved and friendly dogs – and that they're familyhelped her to heal too. I've no wish to put them in kennels so In a brilliant leap of intuition, she realised that I can go on holiday any more than most families would want if the animals could help her to put heal they could do the children in kennels same for others and so the same purpose. But finding somewhere which doesn't just tolerate my dogs but actively makes them welcome is not easy. I've found hotels which say 'Dogs Welcome' but when you enquire they actually mean that you can bring one small dog which must never be left alone and for which they'll make Gentle Barn was born - a charge. That's why this book is such place where animals were brought as a reliefplace of safety and where disadvantaged children and special needs groups could use as therapy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956045928</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma DoddMattinson_Happy|title=I Don't Want A Cool Cat|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Emma Dodd's [[I Don't Want a Posh Dog by Emma Dodd|previous book]] saw her turning her nose up posh dogs. Here she doesn't want a cool cat, a treat her like a fool cat. There are all sorts of other cats she doesn't want, until she gets to the type of cat she can call her own.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184616950X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lady Annabel Goldsmith|title=CopperThe Happy Puppy Handbook: A Dog's Life|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Copper was one of a litter of dogs born to a stray bitch and who was 'adopted' by Lady Annabel Goldsmith - or might it be the other way round?. Here he tells his story in his own words as transcribed for him by his owner. He's got his own priorities – and obedience is not one of them – along with a roving spirit. It's perhaps fortunate that he's a dog as this allows you Your Definitive Guide to call him 'cheeky' Puppy Care and 'charming'. If he was a human being 'randy' and 'arrogant' would be two of the first words which came to mind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751538205</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewEarly Training|author=Emily Gravett|title=DogsPippa Mattinson|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=We don't know who it is who tells us that they love dogs, well not to start with, but the narrator is adamant. They love big dogs and small dogs – and we see a glorious Great Dane, all legs and inquisitive face with a delicate Chihuahua nestled between his paws4. You don't know who will have the best of it but that Chihuahua looks pretty fearsome.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230704220</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gene Weingarten and Michael S Williamson (Photographer)|title=Old Dogs|rating=5

|summary=As Unfortunately far too many people acquire puppies because of the aww... factor. They look gorgeous, cuddly, cute - rather like an animated soft toy - and there are people who have to have one. Now. The reality is that bringing a reviewer I see a lot puppy into your home - into your life - requires about the same level of books planning as moving home and whilst I read I'm usually wondering about who I'll pass the book on to when best guide which I've finished the review. Will it be seen to preparing for a friend, puppy and the local library or early stages of living with one of our schools? Itis Pippa Mattinson's a part of my reviewing process to think about where the book will sit most happilyThe Happy Puppy Handbook. Do get it well in advance. With ''Old Dogs'If you' I was re only thinking about getting a few pages in before I was considering whether puppy it might even put you off - but then it should live on my bedside table or in will be well worth the main bookshelves. The bedside table won. Easilycover price if it saves you a great deal of expense and even more heartache.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1416534997</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew ColeRosenfelt_Puppy|title=Will Work for NutsThe Puppy Express: On the road with 25 rescue dogs . . . what could go wrong?|author=David Rosenfelt|rating=34.5

|summary=The intrepid adventurer faces a most daunting challenge. Girding his loins in anticipation of achieving his goalIf you're moving home from Southern California with twenty-five rescue dogs how, he leaps into actionexactly, helldo you do it? Add in that these are mostly elderly dogs who've already had too much change and trauma in their lives and it's obvious that crating them and flying them across the country isn't going to work. They couldn't all go together and the trip would take about twenty-bent only on success, never fearing four hours with all the inherent danger. With deathchanges -defying stunts and leaps aplenty, he needs that's before you even begin to use any vehicles he finds in his paththink about the prohibitive cost. In the end, untold balancing skillsthe answer was a convoy of three motorhomes, nervethe addition of nine helpers and just about non-racking whippy plastic stick things, and an awful lot morestop driving across the continent. Finally his lithe, muscular frame lands near his targetFun, and he sits back and eats his nuts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007279574</amazonuk>eh?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eric NakagawaMorris_Iamcat|title=I Can Has Cheezburger am Cat (mini edition)|author=Jackie Morris

|summary=You''I Can Has Cheezburger'', re always supposed to tell when a dog is a clever dreaming – the twitching limbs and witty anthology of some of jerking joints allegedly proving the best pictures and captions from sleeping Fido is imagining himself on the fantastic [http://icanhascheezburgerchase.com/ lolcats website] of Cats are, as always, a bit more secretive, but Jackie Morris offers evidence here that they are more or less thinking the same name. The site has been growing in popularity thing – even the domestic moggy, curled up and closed in recent months, and so it was inevitable that is picturing a book would soon hit different self – one sleeking through snows, relaxing on the shelvessavannah or alertly moving through its territory. Choosing which pics to include in It's a very pleasant view into the book could not have been an easy task, and some mindset of the old favourites are there, alongside some less well known onescats.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340977574</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Turid RugaasKatz_Dog|title=On Talking Terms With Dogs: Calming SignalsThe Dog Nobody Loved|author=Jon Katz|rating=3.54

|summary=IWhen we first meet Jon Katz he've long been aware that my two Rhodesian Ridgebacks can communicate with each other s not in ways far a good place: his marriage of thirty-five years was breaking up and he was close to a nervous breakdown. He didn't need any more subtle than any human being can musterproblems. A glanceHe particularly ''didn't'' need a young rescue dog, a tilt of Rottweiler/Shepherd mix, who'd been living wild, to contend with and to upset the head or a flick fragile equilibrium of the tongue life he lived with his animals on Bedlam Farm. Frieda was near feral but devoted to her rescuer, Maria Wulf and it was Maria who was at the message is received and understoodcentre of this conundrum. Our older dog is known as Rosie Glare. I don't know what Katz was spectacularly disconnected from the world - and Maria was the facial expression does only person to whom he seemed able to the younger dogtalk, but it certainly puts me in my placeto connect with Maria he had to connect with Frieda too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954803213</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Turid RugaasCoren_Dogs|title=What Do I Do When... My Dogs Dream?: Nearly Everything Your Dog Pulls?Wants You to Know|author=Stanley Coren

|summary=If you ask dog owners what problems they have with their pets you can be certain that some will come up time and time again. Failure to return when called love dogs this book is common, as is intrusive barking but the one that comes up most often is the failure to walk properly on a leadan absolute gem. It might 's not seem going to explain to be a major problem if you have a small how to feed or train your dog but for those of us with big dogs – I have two Rhodesian Ridgebacks – it can be a major and dangerous problem, particularly in frosty weather. If my two dogs decided to pull there is There's no way that I could control their combined weight of 75kg - and most of it is solid muscle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954803205</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rex Harper|title=An Eagle in the Airing Cupboard|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=We first met Rex Harper in [[An Otter advice on the Aga]] where he told us of how he and his wife, Julie worked first to help injured aid or abused animals and then founded their own animal sanctuarywhen you should seek advice from the vet. It was a book of laughterWhat you get are seventy-two essays on subjects which dog lovers ponder on, sadness at the way that some people will treat animals each one just two or three pages long and gratitude that there are people like Rex and Julie who devote their lives to written in terms which the welfare of animalslayman can understand. At the end of ''Otter'I' ve opened the sanctuary had been taken over by the RSPCA book at random and found ''An Eagle in the Airing CupboardWhy Do Dogs Touch Noses?'' takes up where ''Otter, '' finished and looks at a year Do Dogs Recognize Themselves in the life of a warden.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755318021</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Linda Newbery and Catherine Rayner |title=Posy |rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=IMirror?'ve got a new best friend. She's called Posy. Posy is a kitten and her fur is that wonderful mixture of black, brown and cream that we call tabby. Under her tummy, all four paws and her face look as though they've been dipped in a bowl of cream, which, knowing Posy, is quite possible. She's still finding out about the world, you see.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843629909</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Graeme Sims|title=The Dog Whisperer|rating=4.5|genre=Pets|summary=Graeme Sims is rightly proud of all that he's achieved Why Do Puppies Sleep in life. After a catastrophic business collapse (at the age of fifty) which was none of his fault, he and his wife Maureen made the decision to move to rural Devon, but on the eve of their departure he encountered a stray dog. Annie was to change his life in ways that he couldnPile?'t imagine. From being unemployable he was to become a shepherd, presenter of demonstrations in a theme park and dog trainer. Graeme Sims had discovered that he was capable of communicating with dogs and could understand what they were telling him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755316983</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anna Quindlen|title=Life with Beau: A Tale of a Dog and His Family |rating=4.5|genre=Pets|summary=Bristol's Beauregard Buchanan, Beau to his family and friends, is an old dog when we first meet him. Whilst Anna Quindlen is at the vetThere's collecting his prescription Beau is sleeping on the rug in the foyer. The rug smells. Beau smells and he has little sight or hearing, but then henothing there that you absolutely 's nearly fifteen years old. He's reached that stage in an older doghave's life when there's no point in his going to see the vet (he certainly doesn't want to go there ever again, after what happened to his prostate…) and the next house call will be the last.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091921228</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview |title=The Loved Dog|author=Tamar Geller|genre=Pets|rating=4|summary=People tell me know so that I'm fortunate in my dogs: they're usually well-behaved and you can keep a pleasure to be around despite the fact that they're really rather big. In much the same way that Gary Player hit the nail on the head when dog as he said that the harder he practiced the luckier he got, well-mannered dogs are generally the product of an assiduous training regime. In the past it was thought that this could only should be achieved kept but by dominating the dog by brute force if necessary and with the aid of such implements of torture as the choke chain. The one area in which I was fortunate is time that once I saw the size and strength of you've finished you will know him a fully-grown Rhodesian Ridgeback I knew that I had no hope of physically dominating the dog. I would have to find some other method of traininglot better. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091922259</amazonuk>