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[[Category:New Reviews|Pets]]__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1780724047|title=A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs|author=Ellie LaksPeter J Conradi|rating=4|genre=Pets|summary=I struggle to resist a book about dogs, but I did wonder why this one was so ''thin'': given that I've never encountered a dog who wasn't interesting or important - and probably both, I was expecting a massive tome. But ''A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs'' is actually ''a rich compendium of the world's most significant and beloved dogs'' and it's certainly a rich treasure trove. We begin with Peter J Conradi's four collies: Cloudy, Sky. Bradley and Max. They're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogs, but what comes over is Conradi's love for each and every one of them. I knew that I was in safe hands.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787112926|title=My Gentle Barn: where animals heal Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too?|author=Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=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 who had difficulty meeting people. He's a bit better now and something which he really enjoys is going for a walk. It's not just a case of attaching a lead and children learn heading for your favourite spot - there are a lot of other things to hopethink about first.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Hainsworth_Gina|title=Talking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth

|genre=AutobiographyGraphic Novels|summary=As ''This is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a child Ellie Laks was abused, but not only did she suffer at dog – so drove the hands length of her abuserthe country, she also had Brighton to endure parental indifference Grimsby, to what was happening to herpick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and one working eye. Her only relief came through animals - Why not? The first night at home, Gina – the dog – eats something she shouldn't and even causes a mess, so it's not a great start, but then she had to cope when begin the animals were taken from hertribulations of training, status and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. As an adult she discovered that she had a real talent for healing animals - and that they helped her And then, the life with Gina begins to heal feel like toomuch – ''I felt weird about you because you were always there. In a brilliant leap of intuition she realised that My thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, as if the animals could help I was in love.'' Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, her husband, two children and two cats – gets to heal form the family they could do the same for others and so the Gentle Barn was born - a place where animals were brought as a place of safety and where disadvantaged children and special needs groups could use as therapyGina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584883</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Fogden, Marianne Taylor and Sheri L WilliamsonIngram_Kammie|title=Hummingbirds: A Life-Size Guide to Every SpeciesConversations with Kammie|author=Annie Ingram|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceHumour|summary=It was something of a relief when I've always encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, Annie knows something which has been fascinated by hummingbirds self- delicate, colourful, beautifully evident to me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and brilliantly adapted not just on a level of food! walk! or play!. You do require extensive training to extract nectar from flowers. Perhaps become fluent, but most of all for me it's dogs will be perfectly willing to give their acrobatic flight - the ability time to hover teach you and manoeuvre which all you have to do is listen. Annie has me hookedstudied hard: I could watch them for hours, amazed that birds whose weight can only meaningfully be given in ounces can do so much. I was drawn Kammie has trained her well and the pair have allowed us to this book as soon as I saw it, for a number share some of reasonstheir conversations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400893</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Mattinson_Puppy|title=Choosing the Perfect Puppy

|genre=PetsHome and Family|summary=Unfortunately far too If you have ever, for even a fleeting moment, thought about getting a puppy, you really ought to read this book. Too many people acquire puppies because are carried away in the heat of the moment and ''aww...must'' factorhave a particular breed and go ahead without any thought about the consequences. They look gorgeous, cuddly, cute - rather like an animated soft toy - and there are people who then have to live with the problems which ''havemight'' to have one. Nowbeen avoided for a decade or more. The reality is that bringing a puppy into your home - into your life - requires about the same level of planning as moving home and the best guide which I've seen adult dog also has to preparing for a puppy and the early stages of living live with one is an owner who might not be able to accommodate his needs. [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson's The Happy Puppy Handbook]] is my go-to author on matters dog related: she talks sense. Do get it well in advance. If She doesn't try to talk you're only thinking about out of getting a particular breed or any puppy it might even put you off - but then it will be well worth : she simply presents the cover price if it saves facts and allows you a great deal of expense and even more heartacheto make your own decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091957265</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David RosenfeltPickles_Worzel|title=The Puppy Express: On the road with 25 rescue dogs . . . what could go wrongWorzel says hello! Will you be my friend?|author=Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|rating=4.5

|summary=If I'd like you're moving home from Southern California with twenty five rescue dogs howto meet Worzel, but you''ll need to do exactlywhat I say. Worzel is quite a big dog, but that doesn'' do you do it? Add in t mean that these are mostly elderly dogs whohe've already had too much change and trauma in their lives and its fierce, or even very brave. In fact, he's obvious that crating them frightened, and flying them across country isnlittle as you are, he't going to works frightened of you. They couldnHe't all go together and d like to meet you though: can you see that nose just poking out from the trip would take about twenty four hours with all side of the changes sofa? Now he's peering over the cushion - and finally, he's risking leaving thatvery safe place he's before you even ''begin'' to think about the prohibitive cost. In the end the answer was a convoy of three motorhomesfound, behind the addition of nine helpers and just about non-stop driving across the continentsofa. Fun, eh?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751553522</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=I am Cat (mini edition)|author=Jackie Morris|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|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 [[:Category:Jackie Morris|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.Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847805078</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Katzinstagram_dogs|title=The Dog Nobody Loved|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=When we first meet Jon Katz he's not in 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 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 Dogs 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091957443</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewInstagram|author=Stanley Coren|title=Do Dogs Dream?: Nearly Everything Your Dog Wants You to Know@dogsofinstagram|rating=43.5

|summary=If you love I'm a sucker for dogs this book is an absolute gem. It: I can's not going t walk past one in the street without stopping and having a conversation, sometimes without bothering to explain speak to you how the owners, so a book of pictures of dogs was going to feed or train your dog. There's no advice on first aid or when you should seek advice from the vetbe right up my street. What you get are seventy two essays on subjects which dog lovers ponder onThe wildly popular @dogs_of_instagram, each one run by Ahmed El Shourbagy and his wife Ashley and launched just two or three pages long and written four years ago gives us this book of over four hundred photographs of dogs. Originally I had no intention of reviewing it: in terms which the layman can understand. fact Iwasn've opened t even intending to read the book at random and found 'Why Do Dogs Touch Noses?', 'Do Dogs Recognize Themselves in a Mirror?' and 'Why Do Puppies Sleep in a Pile?' There's nothing there that you absolutely ''just to have'' to know so that you can keep a dog as he should be kept quick flick through, but by within five minutes I was showing other people in the office the picture of the time that you've finished you will know him Weimaraner riding a lot betterbicycle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393338126</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marianne Taylor and Andrew PerrisPrendergast_Digger|title=Beautiful OwlsDog on a Digger: Portraits of Arresting Species from Around the WorldThe Tricky Incident|author=Kate Prendergast|rating=45

|summary=Owls are strange birds: because theyI're crepuscular m going to tell you a story about Dog, Man, Lady and twilight isn't the best time for ''seeing'' birds with any clarity they tend to be Pup. They all work on an industrial site - in fact, Dog and Man live there in a caravan and Man drives the stuff sort of legend digger which is dreamed about by boys large and we don't know as much about them as we mightsmall. On Lady and the Pup run the other hand, snack bar and one day as they're the most recognisable of birdsall having something to eat, perhaps because of the forward-facing eyes Pup goes missing. Man and would look almost human if Lady search everywhere but it was not for that uncanny ability to swivel the neck to almost 360°. Marianne Taylor has gone some way towards correcting this lack of knowledge in 's Dog'Beautiful Owls's sharp ears which finally track him down - caught in a branch over a fast-flowing stream. And it's Dog who works out how to rescue him. She gives us an overview of the speciesI needed 88 words to tell you that story, traces them back to the earliest civilisations but Kate Prendergast does it without using a single one - and shows their evolutionshe tells it in a far more engaging way than I could ever manage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005971</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomasina PriceStrachan_50Cat|title=Goodnight Buffy: Loving a Lakeland Terrier50 Games to Play With Your Cat|author=Jackie Strachan|rating=3.5

|summary=Most dog owners will confess that even after a lifetime of ownership there Cats love to play. It is one dog who holds written in their heartDNA. Often From kittenhood onward, an innate curiosity about the close bond has been forged because of world around them spurs cats to view everything as a potential plaything. For cats, the dog’s ill healthdesire to play helps them to hone their hunting skills. For cat owners, although it never seems provides an opportunity to be completely onebond with a much-sided: an interdependence develops loved pet and dog create special moments that are entertaining to both cat and human seem to exist as onealike. The dog who stole my heart was a Rhodesian Ridgeback - If you are stuck for ideas for Thomasina Price it was Buffy the Lakeland Terrier. She had a traumatic start games to lifeplay with your cat, found hiding in a shop doorway in Blackpool she was taken in by a young womanor would simply like to try something new, but she, in turn contracted ovarian cancer and at the age then 50 Games To Play With Your Cat provides plenty of two Buffy came to what was at least her third home when she was fostered by Thomasina Price’s sisterinspiration.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780883722</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melissa WarehamLeask_Miracle|title=Rescuing GusMiracle: The extraordinary dog that refused to die|author=Amanda Leask

|genre=Children's Non-FictionPets|summary=Melissa Wareham was ''convinced'' that she must be adopted: how could someone like Amanda Leask has been obsessed with dogs all her who ''loved'life and it' s been an obsession which needs the world and a lot of its attitudes to dogs have been born to parents who, well, wouldn't have them in change for the house? better. She wasn't even that convinced when her mother produced her birth certificate. Melissa wouldn't be able to have a dog until she had a home of her own but in s not daunted by the meantime obstacles: she got a job at Battersea Dogs' Home and it was there s simply determined to do all that she met Gus. He wasn't in possibly can to make the first flush of youth and his breath was world a weapon of mass destructionbetter place for dogs. Amanda lives with her husband Tobias, but he son Kyle and Melissa bonded more than twenty rescue and when he was very poorly - he had kennel cough - she took him homesled dogs near Inverness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849418179</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jill Hucklesby|title=Little Lost Hedgehog (RSPCA Fiction)|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Grace Fallon was out in her garden one eveningVery nice, doing what she did every night - making certain that her pet rabbits were fed, watered and safe. When she saw a movement in the flower bed she went to investigate and found a baby hedgehog - or a hoglet as theyyou're correctly calledprobably thinking. Wisely she didnWouldn't attempt we all like to touch the animal but told her parents and then kept watch from inside the househave that sort of lifestyle? But hold on a minute. When the hoglet reappeared and looked rather distressed her mother rang 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). 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_Train|title=Dog on a Train: The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs with ForewordSpecial Delivery|author=Kate Prendergast

|summary=I think itIt's fair one of those mornings for Boy: late out of bed he grabs at his hat and hurtles out of the house to say that youcatch his train - only he drops his hat as he goes through the door and Dog chases after him with the hat in his mouth. They head to the tube station (Dog doesn're not even going t forget to pick this book up unless you're a dog lover. If you've always yearned for a cat and shudder wait at the thought of early morning walks zebra crossing) with boy just twenty or so yards in the rain then this front, but Dog is definitely no losing ground as he has to find someone to carry him on the book for youescalator. But - if you know, or are known by a dog then itHe misses Boy's the equivalent of that massive hamper of chocolate delights train and has to a chocoholic. Only a magazine like wait for the ''New Yorker'' could raid its archives and produce such a massive compendium of humournext one, illustrations, essays, fiction, poems and cartoons about dogs, or but remembers his manners well enough to stand up so that an old lady can have a cast of writers which could put many a bookshop to shamehis seat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>043402239X</amazonuk>Will he catch up with boy when he reaches London Kings Cross?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike HenleyMattinson_Labrador|title=One Dog The Labrador Handbook: The definitive guide to training and His Mancaring for your Labrador|author=Pippa Mattinson|rating=4.5

|summary=Oberon is a Labrador In 2014 about 16% of all pedigree puppies registered with a pedigree as long as your arm the Kennel Club were Labradors - and ''One Dog and His Man'' is his story about what itthat's like living with the man he generously refers over 200 breeds to as ''The Bosschoose from. They'', about life in general and the ways re one of the world. Think of him most respected breeds and with good reason - great as the canine equivalent of the parliamentary sketch writergundogs, there to highlight brilliant in the idiosyncrasies of human life show ring and bring a gentle humour wonderful part of the family to situations which might otherwise be taken far too seriouslyboot. Before you wonder how this Author Pippa Mattinson is possible - how a dog can write a book - let me remind you that dogs are very intelligent animalszoologist and founder of The Gundog Trust. After allShe supports modern, dogs and their humans might go to what are laughingly called 'science-based dog training classes', methods - but ither passion is about helping people to enjoy their dogs. If you's the humans who are trainedre looking for advice about Labradors, not the dogsshe is going to be difficult to better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471660354</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie CollinsPerris_Dogs|title=Tricks and Games To Teach Your DogBeautiful Dogs Postcard Book: How 30 Postcards of Champion Breeds to Turn Your Much-Loved Pet into an Accomplished PerformerKeep or Send|author=Andrew Perris

|summary=Over If you're looking for a present for a lifetime of owning dogsdog lover, from Beautiful Dogs might fit 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 bebill. People say that theyIt're not great conversationalists (personally I'd disagree) but they have s a tremendous willingness to please and they love to have fun with you. Sophie Collins has put together a collections book of tricks and games thirty postcards, which you can teach your dog either send or keep in the book. You might expect to find the more usual breeds - Labradors, Retrievers and they range from the ''sit''like - but instead, you''stay'' ll find more exotic breeds such as the Bedlington Terrier and ''down'' of basic training through to quite complicated tasks and agility trainingthe Bolognese. There's something there for every size just the one dog or bitch on each card and every ageAndrew Perris has managed to give us an excellent view of the animal whilst allowing it to look completely natural.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005696</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill AbramsonLaks_Gentle|title=The Puppy DiariesMy Gentle Barn: Living with a Dog Named Scout where animals heal and children learn to hope|author=Ellie Laks|rating=4.5

|summary=Jill Abramson had As a dog whom child, Ellie Laks was abused, but not only did she adored - a White West Highland by suffer at the name hands of Buddy her abuser, she also had to endure parental indifference to what was happening to her. Her only relief came through animals - and after his death even then she wasn't certain that she wanted another doghad to cope when the animals were taken from her. Would As an adult, she bond with the newcomer? Would discovered that she always be comparing the pup with his predecessor? But - times change had a real talent for healing animals - and in 2009 Jill and that they helped her husband Henry brought home to heal too. In a Golden Retriever by brilliant leap of intuition, she realised that if the name of Scout. Over animals could help her to heal they could do the following year Abramson wrote a column about raising Scout same for the New York Times website others and it's this column which forms so the basis for 'The Puppy Diaries: Living With Gentle Barn was born - a place where animals were brought as a Dog Named Scout'place of safety and where disadvantaged children and special needs groups could use as therapy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444720635</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon BarnesMattinson_Happy|title=How The Happy Puppy Handbook: Your Definitive Guide to be a BAD BirdwatcherPuppy Care and Early Training|author=Pippa Mattinson

|genre=Home and FamilyPets|summary=''Look out Unfortunately far too many people acquire puppies because of the windowaww... 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 puppy into your home - into your life - requires about the same level of planning as moving home and the best guide which I''<br>''See ve seen to preparing for a birdpuppy and the early stages of living with one is Pippa Mattinson''<br>''Enjoy s The Happy Puppy Handbook. Do get itwell in advance.If you''<br>''Congratulations. You are now re only thinking about getting a puppy it might even put you off - but then it will be well worth the cover price if it saves you a birdwatchergreat deal of expense and even more heartache.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780720866</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffrey MassonRosenfelt_Puppy|title=Dogs Never Lie About LoveThe Puppy Express: Why Your Dog Will Always Love You More Than Anyone ElseOn the road with 25 rescue dogs . . . what could go wrong?|author=David Rosenfelt|rating=34.5

|summary=Readers come to books for strange reasons but I donIf you't think re moving home from Southern California with twenty-five rescue dogs how, exactly, do you do it? Add in that Ithese are mostly elderly dogs who've ever before picked up a book, looked at the title already had too much change and trauma in their lives and being intrigued not by what was suggested but by how anyone could think differently. it'Dogs Never Lie About Loves obvious that crating them and flying them across the country isn' is a statement of the obvious t going to mework. IThey couldn've lived t all go together and the trip would take about twenty-four hours with all the changes - and around dogs for most of my life and I know that dogs are incapable of pretence's before you even begin to think about the prohibitive cost. I've never met In the end, the answer was a dog I couldn't trust: if it doesn't like meconvoy of three motorhomes, it will tell me so straight away. It will not attempt to trick me. I only wish that I could say the same addition of nine helpers and just about most of non-stop driving across the humans I encountercontinent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099740613</amazonuk>Fun, eh?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David CavillMorris_Iamcat|title=Canine PerspectivesI am Cat (mini edition)|author=Jackie Morris|rating=34

|summary=David Cavill has spent much of his adult life around dogs, with 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 Finnish Spitz holding a special place in his heartchase. Amongst other things - he was founder of the Animal Care CollegeCats are, worked as always, a senior manager at Battersea Dogs' Homebit more secretive, judging and advising on but Jackie Morris offers evidence here that they are more or less thinking the same thing – even the selectiondomestic moggy, care curled up and training of pedigree and mongrel dogs - he wrote closed in, is picturing a regular column for ''Our Dogs'' newspaper and ''Dogs Monthly''different self – one sleeking through snows, relaxing on the savannah or alertly moving through its territory. It's these and other articles which are reproduced here and as there's a time span very pleasant view into the mindset of fifteen years they allow the reader to see what has changed and - probably more importantly - what hasn'tcats.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468104780</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam HayKatz_Dog|title=Archie the Guide The Dog Puppy: Hero in TrainingNobody Loved|author=Jon Katz|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionPets|summary=I donWhen we first meet Jon Katz he't often pick up s not in a nongood place: his marriage of thirty-fiction book for the 7+ age group, find it riveting reading five years was breaking up and informative about he was close to a subject with which Inervous breakdown. He didn't need any more problems. He particularly 'm already familiar, but that was the case with 'didn'Archie: Hero in Trainingt''. Archie is a puppy destined to be need a guide young rescue dog for , a blind person and he's just one story in a book about the pups-in-training, the working dogsRottweiler/Shepherd mix, the adults who have guide dogs'd been living wild, or struggle to learn contend with and to upset the fragile equilibrium of the techniques - or even what happens 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 dogs who don't turn out to be what's neededcentre of this conundrum. There's a full range as well as information about what a guide dog costs Katz was spectacularly disconnected from the world - and it's not cheap!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033053792X</amazonuk>Maria was the only person to whom he seemed able to talk, but to connect with Maria he had to connect with Frieda too.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt WhymanCoren_Dogs|title=Pig in the MiddleDo Dogs Dream?: Nearly Everything Your Dog Wants You to Know|author=Stanley Coren

|summary=I'm so pleased I read If you love dogs this bookis an absolute gem. It's only the occasional writer who grabs me by the short and curlies with his observation of human nature, but accomplished childrennot going to explain to you how to feed or train your dog. There's writer Matt Whyman not only grabbed me, but sold me no advice on first aid or when you should seek advice from the minivet. What you get are seventy-pigs as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444711466</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gordon Grice|title=The Book of Deadly Animals|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Animals and humans have long mixedtwo essays on subjects which dog lovers ponder on, even though the each one has almost always proven capable of being lethal to just two or three pages long and written in terms which the otherlayman can understand. Many scientists in I've opened the past decided animals killing humans were aberrant, book at random and that the real animal knew it was second best to humansfound ''Why Do Dogs Touch Noses?'', having been saved ''Do Dogs Recognize Themselves in the Ark, a Mirror?'' and respected our dominion over them. Even now, it seems, there are opinions that creatures attacking mankind are somehow rogue 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>