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|summary=Owls are strange birdsI struggle to resist a book about dogs, but I did wonder why this one was so ''thin'': because theygiven that I've never encountered a dog who wasn're crepuscular t interesting or important - and twilight isnprobably both, I was expecting a massive tome. But 't the best time for 'A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs''seeingis actually '' birds with any clarity they tend to be a rich compendium of the stuff of legend world's most significant and beloved dogs'' and we donit't know as much about them as we mights certainly a rich treasure trove. On the other hand, theyWe begin with Peter J Conradi're the most recognisable of birdss four collies: Cloudy, perhaps because of the forward-facing eyes Sky. Bradley and would look almost human if it was not for that uncanny ability to swivel the neck to almost 360°Max. Marianne Taylor has gone some way towards correcting this lack of knowledge in ''Beautiful OwlsThey're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogs, but what comes over is Conradi's love for each and every one of them. She gives us an overview of the species, traces them back to the earliest civilisations and shows their evolutionI knew that I was in safe hands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005971</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomasina Price1787112926|title=Goodnight Buffy: Loving Worzel goes for a Lakeland TerrierWalk. Will you come too?|author=Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|rating=3.5|genre=PetsFor Sharing|summary=Most When we [[Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|last met Worzel Woolface]] he was a rather frightened dog owners will confess that even after who had difficulty meeting people. He's a bit better now and something which he really enjoys is going for a lifetime walk. It's not just a case of ownership attaching a lead and heading for your favourite spot - there are a lot of other things to think about first.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Hainsworth_Gina|title=Talking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=''This is one dog who holds their heartwhat happened. '' Often An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the close bond has been forged because length of the dog’s ill healthcountry, Brighton to Grimsby, although it never seems to be completely one-sided: pick up an interdependence develops and Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and human seem to exist as oneworking eye. Why not? The first night at home, Gina – the dog who stole my heart was – eats something she shouldn't and causes a Rhodesian Ridgeback - for Thomasina Price mess, so it was Buffy 's not a great start, but then begin the Lakeland Terriertribulations of training, status and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. She had a traumatic start And then, the life with Gina begins to lifefeel like too much – ''I felt weird about you because you were always there. My thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, found hiding in a shop doorway in Blackpool she as if I was taken in by a young womanlove.'' Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, but sheher husband, in turn contracted ovarian cancer two children and at the age of two Buffy came cats – gets to what was at least her third home when she was fostered by Thomasina Price’s sisterform the family they and Gina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780883722</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melissa WarehamIngram_Kammie|title=Rescuing GusConversations with Kammie|author=Annie Ingram

|genre=Children's NonHumour|summary=It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, Annie knows something which has been self-Fictionevident to me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a level of food! walk! or play!. You do require extensive training to become fluent, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and all you have to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the pair have allowed us to share some of their conversations.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Mattinson_Puppy|title=Choosing the Perfect Puppy|author=Pippa Mattinson|rating=4.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=Melissa Wareham was If you have ever, for even a fleeting moment, thought about getting a puppy, you really ought to read this book. Too many people are carried away in the heat of the moment and ''convincedmust'' that she must be adopted: how could someone like her who have a particular breed and go ahead without any thought about the consequences. They then have to live with the problems which ''lovedmight'' dogs have been born avoided for a decade or more. The puppy and the adult dog also has to parents live with an owner who, well, wouldn't have them in the house? might not be able to accommodate his needs. She wasn't even that convinced when her mother produced her birth certificate[[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go-to author on matters dog related: she talks sense. Melissa wouldnShe doesn't be able try to have talk you out of getting a dog until particular breed or any puppy: she had a home of her simply presents the facts and allows you to make your own decisions.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Pickles_Worzel|title=Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend?|author=Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|rating=5|genre=Pets|summary=I'd like you to meet Worzel, but in the meantime she got you'll need to do exactly what I say. Worzel is quite a job at Battersea Dogsbig dog, but that doesn't mean that he's fierce, or even very brave. In fact, he' Home s frightened, and it was there that she met Guslittle as you are, he's frightened of you. He wasn't in d like to meet you though: can you see that nose just poking out from the first flush side of youth the sofa? Now he's peering over the cushion - and his breath was a weapon of mass destructionfinally, but he and Melissa bonded and when he was 's risking leaving that very poorly - safe place he had kennel cough - she took him home's found, behind the sofa.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849418179</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Hucklesbyinstagram_dogs|title=Little Lost Hedgehog (RSPCA Fiction)Dogs on Instagram|author=@dogsofinstagram|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersPets|summary=Grace Fallon was out I'm a sucker for dogs: I can't walk past one in her garden one eveningthe street without stopping and having a conversation, doing what she did every night - making certain that her pet rabbits were fedsometimes without bothering to speak to the owners, watered and safe. When she saw so a movement in the flower bed she went book of pictures of dogs was going to investigate be right up my street. The wildly popular @dogs_of_instagram, run by Ahmed El Shourbagy and his wife Ashley and found a baby hedgehog - or a hoglet as they're correctly calledlaunched just four years ago gives us this book of over four hundred photographs of dogs. Wisely she didnOriginally I had no intention of reviewing it: in fact I wasn't attempt even intending to touch read the animal book, just to have a quick flick through, but told her parents and then kept watch from inside within five minutes I was showing other people in the house. When office the hoglet reappeared and looked rather distressed her mother rang picture of the RSPCA and was told to give it some food - dog food and crushed dog biscuits (NEVER milk as it can make any hog very sick)Weimaraner riding a bicycle. Later someone from the RSPCA came round to collect the hoglet and take it to their centre for care.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407133217</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malcolm GladwellPrendergast_Digger|title=Dog on a Digger: The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs with ForewordTricky Incident|author=Kate Prendergast

|summary=I think it's fair to say that you're not even m going to pick this book up unless tell you're a dog loverstory about Dog, Man, Lady and the Pup. If you've always yearned for They all work on an industrial site - in fact, Dog and Man live there in a cat caravan and shudder at Man drives the thought sort of early morning walks in digger which is dreamed about by boys large and small. Lady and the Pup run the rain then this is definitely no snack bar and one day as they're all having something to eat, the book for youPup goes missing. But Man and Lady search everywhere but it's Dog's sharp ears which finally track him down - if you know, or are known by caught in a branch over a dog then fast-flowing stream. And it's the equivalent of that massive hamper of chocolate delights Dog who works out how to a chocoholicrescue him. Only I needed 88 words to tell you that story, but Kate Prendergast does it without using a magazine like the ''New Yorker'' could raid its archives single one - and produce such a massive compendium of humour, illustrations, essays, fiction, poems and cartoons about dogs, or have she tells it in a cast of writers which far more engaging way than I could put many a bookshop to shameever manage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>043402239X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike HenleyStrachan_50Cat|title=One Dog and His Man50 Games to Play With Your Cat|author=Jackie Strachan|rating=45

|summary=Oberon Cats love to play. It is a Labrador with a pedigree as long as your arm and ''One Dog and His Man'' is his story written in their DNA. From kittenhood onward, an innate curiosity about what it's like living with the man he generously refers world around them spurs cats to view everything as ''The Boss''a potential plaything. For cats, about life in general and the ways of the worlddesire to play helps them to hone their hunting skills. Think of him as the canine equivalent of the parliamentary sketch writerFor cat owners, there it provides an opportunity to highlight the idiosyncrasies of human life bond with a much-loved pet and bring a gentle humour create special moments that are entertaining to situations which might otherwise be taken far too seriouslyboth cat and human alike. Before you wonder how this is possible - how a dog can write a book - let me remind If you that dogs are very intelligent animals. After allstuck for ideas for games to play with your cat, dogs and their humans might go or would simply like to what are laughingly called 'dog training classes'try something new, but it's the humans who are trained, not the dogsthen 50 Games To Play With Your Cat provides plenty of inspiration.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471660354</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie CollinsLeask_Miracle|title=Tricks and Games To Teach Your DogMiracle: How The extraordinary dog that refused to Turn Your Much-Loved Pet into an Accomplished Performerdie|author=Amanda Leask

|summary=Over Amanda Leask has been obsessed with dogs all her life and it's been an obsession which needs the world and a lifetime lot of owning its attitudes to 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 - change for the better your dog will be. People say that theyShe're s not great conversationalists (personally Idaunted by the obstacles: she'd disagree) but they have a tremendous willingness s simply determined to please and they love do all that she possibly can to have fun make the world a better place for dogs. Amanda lives with you. Sophie Collins has put together a collections of tricks her husband Tobias, son Kyle and games which you can teach your dog more than twenty rescue and they range from the ''sit''sled dogs near Inverness. Very nice, you're probably thinking. Wouldn'stay'' and ''down'' t we all like to have that sort of basic training through to quite complicated tasks and agility training. There's something there for every size and every agelifestyle? But hold on a minute.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005696</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill AbramsonPrendergast_Train|title=Dog on a Train: The Puppy Diaries: Living with a Dog Named Scout Special Delivery|author=Kate Prendergast|rating=45

|summary=Jill Abramson had a dog whom she adored It's one of those mornings for Boy: late out of bed he grabs at his hat and hurtles out of the house to catch his train - a White West Highland by only he drops his hat as he goes through the name of Buddy - door and Dog chases after him with the hat in his death she wasnmouth. They head to the tube station (Dog doesn't certain that she wanted another dog. Would she bond with the newcomer? Would she always be comparing forget to wait at the pup zebra crossing) with his predecessor? But - times change - and boy just twenty or so yards in 2009 Jill and her husband Henry brought home a Golden Retriever by front, but Dog is losing ground as he has to find someone to carry him on the name of Scoutescalator. Over the following year Abramson wrote a column about raising Scout for the New York Times website and itHe misses Boy's this column which forms train and has to wait for the basis for 'The Puppy Diaries: Living With a Dog Named Scout'next one, but remembers his manners well enough to stand up so that an old lady can have his seat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444720635</amazonuk>Will he catch up with boy when he reaches London Kings Cross?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon BarnesMattinson_Labrador|title=How The Labrador Handbook: The definitive guide to be a BAD Birdwatchertraining and caring for your Labrador|author=Pippa Mattinson

|genre=Home and FamilyPets|summary=In 2014 about 16% of all pedigree puppies registered with the Kennel Club were Labradors - and that's with over 200 breeds to choose from. They'Look out re one of the most respected breeds and with good reason - great as gundogs, brilliant in the show ring and a wonderful part of the windowfamily to boot.''<br>''See Author Pippa Mattinson is a bird''<br>''Enjoy itzoologist and founder of The Gundog Trust. She supports modern, science-based dog training methods - but her passion is about helping people to enjoy their dogs.If you''<br>''Congratulations. You are now a birdwatcherre looking for advice about Labradors, she is going to be difficult to better.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780720866</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffrey MassonPerris_Dogs|title=Beautiful Dogs Never Lie About LovePostcard Book: Why Your Dog Will Always Love You More Than Anyone Else30 Postcards of Champion Breeds to Keep or Send|author=Andrew Perris|rating=3.54

|summary=Readers come to books If you're looking for a present for strange reasons but I don't think that I've ever before picked up a bookdog lover, looked at Beautiful Dogs might fit the title and being intrigued not by what was suggested but by how anyone could think differentlybill. 'Dogs Never Lie About LoveIt' is s a statement book of thirty postcards, which you can either send or keep in the obvious book. You might expect to me. Ifind the more usual breeds - Labradors, Retrievers and the like - but instead, you've lived with ll find more exotic breeds such as the Bedlington Terrier and around dogs for most of my life and I know that dogs are incapable of pretencethe Bolognese. IThere've never met a s just the one dog I couldn't trust: if it doesn't like me, it will tell me so straight away. It will not attempt or bitch on each card and Andrew Perris has managed to trick me. I only wish that I could say the same about most give us an excellent view of the humans I encounteranimal whilst allowing it to look completely natural.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099740613</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David CavillLaks_Gentle|title=Canine PerspectivesMy Gentle Barn: where animals heal and children learn to hope|author=Ellie Laks|rating=34.5

|summary=David Cavill has spent much of his adult life around dogsAs a child, with the Finnish Spitz holding a special place in his heart. Amongst other things - he Ellie Laks was founder of the Animal Care Collegeabused, worked as a senior manager but not only did she suffer at Battersea Dogs' Homethe hands of her abuser, judging she also had to endure parental indifference to what was happening to her. Her only relief came through animals - and advising on even then she had to cope when the selectionanimals were taken from her. As an adult, care and training of pedigree and mongrel dogs - he wrote she discovered that she had a regular column real talent for ''Our Dogs'' newspaper healing animals - and ''Dogs Monthly''that they helped her to heal too. It's these and other articles which are reproduced here and as there's In a time span brilliant leap of fifteen years intuition, she realised that if the animals could help her to heal they allow could do the reader to see what has changed same for others and so the Gentle Barn was born - probably more importantly - what hasn'ta place where animals were brought as a place of safety and where disadvantaged children and special needs groups could use as therapy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468104780</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam HayMattinson_Happy|title=Archie the The Happy Puppy Handbook: Your Definitive Guide Dog to Puppy: Hero in Care and Early Training|author=Pippa Mattinson

|genre=Children's Non-FictionPets|summary=I don't often pick up a non-fiction book for Unfortunately far too many people acquire puppies because of the 7+ age groupaww... factor. They look gorgeous, find it riveting reading cuddly, cute - rather like an animated soft toy - and informative about a subject with which I'm already familiar, but that was the case with ''Archie: Hero in Training''there are people who have to have one. Now. Archie The reality is that bringing a puppy destined to be a guide dog for a blind person and he's just one story in a book about the pupsinto your home -ininto your life -training, requires about the working dogs, same level of planning as moving home and the adults who have best guide dogs, or struggle which I've seen to learn preparing for a puppy and the techniques - or even what happens to the dogs who don't turn out to be whatearly stages of living with one is Pippa Mattinson's neededThe Happy Puppy Handbook. Do get it well in advance. ThereIf you's re only thinking about getting a full range as puppy it might even put you off - but then it will be well as information about what worth the cover price if it saves you a guide dog costs - great deal of expense and it's not cheap!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033053792X</amazonuk>even more heartache.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt WhymanRosenfelt_Puppy|title=Pig in The Puppy Express: On the Middleroad with 25 rescue dogs . . . what could go wrong?|author=David Rosenfelt

|summary=IIf you'm so pleased I read this bookre moving home from Southern California with twenty-five rescue dogs how, exactly, do 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. ItThey couldn's only t all go together and the occasional writer who grabs me by trip would take about twenty-four hours with all the short changes - and curlies with his observation of human nature, but accomplished childrenthat's writer Matt Whyman not only grabbed mebefore you even begin to think about the prohibitive cost. In the end, the answer was a convoy of three motorhomes, but sold me on the miniaddition of nine helpers and just about non-pigs as wellstop driving across the continent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444711466</amazonuk>Fun, eh?

{{Frontpage|isbn=Morris_Iamcat|title=I am Cat (mini edition)|author=Jackie Morris|rating=4|genre=Pets|summary=You're always supposed to tell when a dog is dreaming – the twitching limbs and jerking joints allegedly proving the sleeping Fido is imagining himself on the chase. Cats are, as always, a bit more secretive, but Jackie Morris offers evidence here that they are more or less thinking the same thing – even the domestic moggy, curled up and closed in, is picturing a different self – one sleeking through snows, relaxing on the savannah or alertly moving through its territory. It's a very pleasant view into the mindset of cats.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gordon GriceKatz_Dog|title=The Book Dog Nobody Loved|author=Jon Katz|rating=4|genre=Pets|summary=When we first meet Jon Katz he's not in a good place: his marriage of Deadly Animalsthirty-five years was breaking up and he was close to a nervous breakdown. He didn't need any more problems. He particularly ''didn't'' need a young rescue dog, a Rottweiler/Shepherd mix, who'd been living wild, to contend with and to upset the fragile equilibrium of the 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 centre of this conundrum. Katz was spectacularly disconnected from the world - and Maria was the only person to whom he seemed able to talk, but to connect with Maria he had to connect with Frieda too.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Coren_Dogs|title=Do Dogs Dream?: Nearly Everything Your Dog Wants You to Know|author=Stanley Coren

|genre=Popular SciencePets|summary=Animals and humans have long mixed, even though the one has almost always proven capable of being lethal If you love dogs this book is an absolute gem. It's not going to explain to you how to feed or train your dog. There's no advice on first aid or when you should seek advice from the othervet. Many scientists in the past decided animals killing humans were aberrantWhat you get are seventy-two essays on subjects which dog lovers ponder on, each one just two or three pages long and that the real animal knew it was second best to humans, having been saved written in terms which the Ark, and respected our dominion over themlayman can understand. Even nowI've opened the book at random and found ''Why Do Dogs Touch Noses?'', it seems, there are opinions that creatures attacking mankind are somehow rogue ''Do Dogs Recognize Themselves in a Mirror?'' and need destroying. But where is the wrong ''Why Do Puppies Sleep in an animal behaving as its nature compels ita Pile? '' Similarly, the human wandering around the wilderness, or even the idiot woman feeding a black bear her own toddlerThere's honey-dripping hand (true story - what nothing there that you absolutely ''have'' to know so that you can keep a dog as he should be kept but by the bear thought of the taste of honeyed fingers we dontime that you't ve finished you will know) is just the same in reverse - humans behaving as only humans canhim a lot better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919675</amazonuk>