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[[Category:New Reviews|Pets]]__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ellie Laks1780724047|title=My Gentle Barn: where animals heal A Dictionary of Interesting and children learn to hopeImportant Dogs|author=Peter J Conradi|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyPets|summary=As I struggle to resist a child Ellie Laks was abusedbook about dogs, but not only I did she suffer at the hands of her abuserwonder why this one was so ''thin'': given that I've never encountered a dog who wasn't interesting or important - and probably both, she also had to endure parental indifference to what I was happening to herexpecting a massive tome. Her only relief came through animals - But ''A Dictionary of Interesting and even then she had to cope when Important Dogs'' is actually ''a rich compendium of the animals were taken from herworld's most significant and beloved dogs'' and it's certainly a rich treasure trove. As an adult she discovered that she had a real talent 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 healing animals - each and that they helped her to heal tooevery one of them. In a brilliant leap of intuition she realised I knew that if the animals could help her to heal they could do the same for others and so the Gentle Barn I was born - a place where animals were brought as a place of safety and where disadvantaged children and special needs groups could use as therapyin safe hands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584883</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pippa Mattinson1787112926|title=The Happy Puppy Handbook: Your Definitive Guide to Puppy Care Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too?|author=Catherine Pickles and Early TrainingChantal Bourgonje|rating=4.5|genre=PetsFor Sharing|summary=Unfortunately far too many 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 acquire puppies because of the ''aww...'' factor. They look gorgeous, cuddly, cute - rather like an animated soft toy - and there are people who He''have'' to have one. Now. The reality is that bringing s a puppy into your home - into your life - requires about the same level of planning as moving home bit better now and the best guide something which I've seen to preparing he really enjoys is going for a puppy and the early stages of living with one is Pippa Mattinson's The Happy Puppy Handbookwalk. Do get it well in advance. If youIt're only thinking about getting s not just a case of attaching a puppy it might even put you off lead and heading for your favourite spot - but then it will be well worth the cover price if it saves you there are a great deal lot of expense and even more heartacheother things to think about first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091957265</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David RosenfeltHainsworth_Gina|title=The Puppy Express: On the road with 25 rescue dogs . . . what could go wrong?Talking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth

|genre=PetsGraphic Novels|summary=If you're moving home from Southern California with twenty five rescue dogs how, 'This is what happened.'exactly'' do you do it An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the length of the country, Brighton to Grimsby, to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and one working eye. Why not? Add in that these are mostly elderly dogs whoThe first night at home, Gina – the dog – eats something she shouldn've already had too much change and trauma in their lives t and causes a mess, so it's obvious that crating them not a great start, but then begin the tribulations of training, status and flying them across country isn't going to work. They couldn't behaviour all humans must go together and through with their dogs. And then, the trip would take about twenty four hours life with all the changes - and that's before you even 'Gina begins to feel like too much – 'begin'' to think I felt weird about the prohibitive costyou because you were always there. In the end the answer was a convoy of three motorhomesMy thoughts were taken over by you, the addition of nine helpers and just about non-stop driving across the continentI felt sick, as if I was in love. '' FunSlowly, eh?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751553522<however, everyone – our artist/amazonuk>author, her husband, two children and two cats – gets to form the family they and Gina all would have wanted.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Ingram_Kammie|title=I am Cat (mini edition)Conversations with Kammie|author=Jackie MorrisAnnie Ingram

|genre=Emerging ReadersHumour|summary=You're always supposed to tell It was something of a relief when a dog is dreaming – the twitching limbs I encountered Annie Ingram and jerking joints allegedly proving the sleeping Fido is imagining himself on the chaseher cocker spaniel Kammie. Cats are, as alwaysYou see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for a bit more secretive, but [[:Categorylong time:Jackie Morris|Jackie Morris]] offers evidence here that they dogs are more perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a level of food! walk! or less thinking the same thing – even the domestic moggyplay!. You do require extensive training to become fluent, curled up but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and closed in, all you have to do is picturing a different self – one sleeking through snows, relaxing on the savannah or alertly moving through its territorylisten. It's a very pleasant view into Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the mindset pair have allowed us to share some of catstheir conversations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805078</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon KatzMattinson_Puppy|title=The Dog Nobody LovedChoosing the Perfect Puppy|author=Pippa Mattinson|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyHome and Family|summary=When we first meet Jon Katz he's not in If you have ever, for even a fleeting moment, thought about getting a good place: his marriage of thirty-five years was breaking up and he was close puppy, you really ought to a nervous breakdownread this book. He didnToo many people are carried away in the heat of the moment and 't need 'must'' have a particular breed and go ahead without any more problemsthought about the consequences. He particularly They then have to live with the problems which ''didnmight't'' need have been avoided for a young rescue decade or more. The puppy and the adult dog, a Rottweiler/Shepherd mix, who'd been living wild, also has to contend live with and an owner who might not be able to upset the fragile equilibrium of the life he lived with accommodate his animals needs. [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go-to author on Bedlam Farmmatters dog related: she talks sense. Frieda was near feral but devoted She doesn't try to her rescuer, Maria Wulf and it was Maria who was at the centre talk you out of this conundrum. Katz was spectacularly disconnected from getting a particular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the world - facts and Maria was the only person to whom he seemed able to talk, but to connect with Maria he had allows you to connect with Frieda toomake your own decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091957443</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stanley CorenPickles_Worzel|title=Do Dogs DreamWorzel says hello! Will you be my friend?: Nearly Everything Your Dog Wants You to Know|author=Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|rating=4.5

|summary=If I'd like you love dogs this book is an absolute gem. It's not going to explain to meet Worzel, but you how 'll need to feed or train your do exactly what I say. Worzel is quite a big dog. There, but that doesn't mean that he's no advice on first aid fierce, or when you should seek advice from the veteven very brave. What you get are seventy two essays on subjects which dog lovers ponder onIn fact, each one just two or three pages long and written in terms which the layman can understand. Ihe've opened the book at random s frightened, and found 'Why Do Dogs Touch Noses?'little as you are, 'Do Dogs Recognize Themselves in a Mirror?' and 'Why Do Puppies Sleep in a Pile?' Therehe's nothing there that frightened of you absolutely ''have'. He' d like to know so that meet you though: can keep a dog as you see that nose just poking out from the side of the sofa? Now he should be kept but by 's peering over the time cushion - and finally, he's risking leaving that youvery safe place he've finished you will know him a lot betters found, behind the sofa.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393338126</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomasina Priceinstagram_dogs|title=Goodnight Buffy: Loving a Lakeland TerrierDogs on Instagram|author=@dogsofinstagram

|summary=Most dog owners will confess that even after I'm a lifetime of ownership there is sucker for dogs: I can't walk past one dog who holds their heart. Often in the close bond has been forged because of street without stopping and having a conversation, sometimes without bothering to speak to the dog’s ill healthowners, although it never seems so a book of pictures of dogs was going to be completely one-sided: an interdependence develops right up my street. The wildly popular @dogs_of_instagram, run by Ahmed El Shourbagy and dog his wife Ashley and human seem to exist as onelaunched just four years ago gives us this book of over four hundred photographs of dogs. The dog who stole my heart was a Rhodesian Ridgeback - for Thomasina Price Originally I had no intention of reviewing it was Buffy : in fact I wasn't even intending to read the Lakeland Terrier. She had a traumatic start book, just to life, found hiding in have a shop doorway in Blackpool she was taken in by a young womanquick flick through, but she, within five minutes I was showing other people in turn contracted ovarian cancer and at the age office the picture of two Buffy came to what was at least her third home when she was fostered by Thomasina Price’s sisterthe Weimaraner riding a bicycle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780883722</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melissa WarehamPrendergast_Digger|title=Rescuing GusDog on a Digger: The Tricky Incident|author=Kate Prendergast|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionPets|summary=Melissa Wareham was I''convinced'' that she must be adopted: how could someone like her who ''loved'' dogs have been born m going to parents whotell you a story about Dog, Man, wellLady and the Pup. They all work on an industrial site - in fact, wouldn't have them Dog and Man live there in a caravan and Man drives the house? She wasn't even that convinced when her mother produced her birth certificatesort of digger which is dreamed about by boys large and small. Melissa wouldnLady and the Pup run the snack bar and one day as they't be able re all having something to have a dog until she had a home of her own but in eat, the meantime she got a job at Battersea Dogs' Home Pup goes missing. Man and Lady search everywhere but it was there that she met Gus. He wasn't s Dog's sharp ears which finally track him down - caught in the first flush of youth and his breath was a weapon of mass destructionbranch over a fast-flowing stream. And it's Dog who works out how to rescue him. I needed 88 words to tell you that story, but he Kate Prendergast does it without using a single one - and Melissa bonded and when he was very poorly - he had kennel cough - she took him hometells it in a far more engaging way than I could ever manage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849418179</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malcolm GladwellStrachan_50Cat|title=The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs with Foreword50 Games to Play With Your Cat|author=Jackie Strachan

|summary=I think it's fair Cats love to say that you're not even going play. It is written in their DNA. From kittenhood onward, an innate curiosity about the world around them spurs cats to pick this book up unless you're view everything as a dog loverpotential plaything. If you've always yearned for a cat and shudder at For cats, the thought of early morning walks in the rain then this is definitely no the book for youdesire to play helps them to hone their hunting skills. But - if you knowFor cat owners, or are known by a dog then it's the equivalent of that massive hamper of chocolate delights provides an opportunity to bond with a chocoholic. Only a magazine like the ''New Yorker'' could raid its archives much-loved pet and produce such a massive compendium of humour, illustrations, essays, fiction, poems create special moments that are entertaining to both cat and cartoons about dogshuman alike. If you are stuck for ideas for games to play with your cat, or have a cast would simply like to try something new, then 50 Games To Play With Your Cat provides plenty of writers which could put many a bookshop to shameinspiration.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>043402239X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike HenleyLeask_Miracle|title=One Dog and His ManMiracle: The extraordinary dog that refused to die|author=Amanda Leask

|summary=Oberon is a Labrador Amanda Leask has been obsessed with a pedigree as long as your arm dogs all her life and ''One Dog and His Man'' is his story about what it's like living with been an obsession which needs the man he generously refers to as ''The Boss'', about life in general world and the ways a lot of its attitudes to dogs to change for the worldbetter. Think of him as She's not daunted by the canine equivalent of the parliamentary sketch writer, there obstacles: she's simply determined to do all that she possibly can to highlight make the idiosyncrasies of human life and bring world a gentle humour to situations which might otherwise be taken far too seriouslybetter place for dogs. Before you wonder how this is possible - how a dog can write a book - let me remind you that Amanda lives with her husband Tobias, son Kyle and more than twenty rescue and sled dogs are very intelligent animalsnear Inverness. After allVery nice, dogs and their humans might go to what are laughingly called you'dog training classesre probably thinking. Wouldn', but it's the humans who are trained, not the dogst we all like to have that sort of lifestyle? But hold on a minute.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471660354</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie CollinsPrendergast_Train|title=Tricks and Games To Teach Your Dogon a Train: The Special Delivery|author=Kate Prendergast|rating=5|genre=Pets|summary=It's one of those mornings for Boy: How late out of bed he grabs at his hat and hurtles out of the house to Turn Your Muchcatch his train -Loved Pet into 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't forget to wait at the zebra crossing) with boy just twenty or so yards in front, but Dog is losing ground as he has to find someone to carry him on the escalator. He misses Boy's train and has to wait for the next one, but remembers his manners well enough to stand up so that an Accomplished Performerold lady can have his seat. Will he catch up with boy when he reaches London Kings Cross?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Mattinson_Labrador|title=The Labrador Handbook: The definitive guide to training and caring for your Labrador|author=Pippa Mattinson|rating=4.5

|summary=Over a lifetime In 2014 about 16% of owning dogs, from all pedigree puppies registered with the small Kennel Club were Labradors - and nippy Jack Russells that's with over 200 breeds to choose from. They're one of the large most respected breeds and loving Rhodesian Ridgebacks, I've learned that the more you do with your dog good reason - great as gundogs, brilliant in the more you interact - show ring and a wonderful part of the better your dog will befamily to boot. People say that they're not great conversationalists (personally I'd disagree) but they have Author Pippa Mattinson is a tremendous willingness to please zoologist and they love to have fun with youfounder of The Gundog Trust. Sophie Collins has put together a collections of tricks and games which you can teach your She supports modern, science-based dog and they range from the ''sit'', ''stay'' and ''down'' of basic training through methods - but her passion is about helping people to quite complicated tasks and agility trainingenjoy their dogs. ThereIf you's something there re looking for every size and every ageadvice about Labradors, she is going to be difficult to better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005696</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill AbramsonPerris_Dogs|title=The Puppy DiariesBeautiful Dogs Postcard Book: Living with a Dog Named Scout 30 Postcards of Champion Breeds to Keep or Send|author=Andrew Perris

|summary=Jill Abramson had If you're looking for a present for a dog whom she adored - lover, Beautiful Dogs might fit the bill. It's a White West Highland by book of thirty postcards, which you can either send or keep in the name of Buddy book. You might expect to find the more usual breeds - Labradors, Retrievers and after his death she wasnthe like - but instead, you't certain that she wanted another dog. Would she bond with ll find more exotic breeds such as the newcomer? Would she always be comparing the pup with his predecessor? But - times change - and in 2009 Jill Bedlington Terrier and her husband Henry brought home a Golden Retriever by the name of ScoutBolognese. Over There's just the following year Abramson wrote a column about raising Scout for one dog or bitch on each card and Andrew Perris has managed to give us an excellent view of the New York Times website and animal whilst allowing it's this column which forms the basis for 'The Puppy Diaries: Living With a Dog Named Scout'to look completely natural.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444720635</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffrey MassonLaks_Gentle|title=Dogs Never Lie About LoveMy Gentle Barn: Why Your Dog Will Always Love You More Than Anyone Elsewhere animals heal and children learn to hope|author=Ellie Laks|rating=34.5

|summary=Readers come to books for strange reasons but I don't think that I've ever before picked up As a bookchild, looked Ellie Laks was abused, but not only did she suffer at the title and being intrigued not by hands of her abuser, she also had to endure parental indifference to what was suggested but by how anyone could think differentlyhappening to her. 'Dogs Never Lie About Love' is a statement of Her only relief came through animals - and even then she had to cope when the obvious to meanimals were taken from her. I've lived with and around dogs As an adult, she discovered that she had a real talent for most of my life healing animals - and I know that dogs are incapable of pretencethey helped her to heal too. I've never met In a dog I couldn't trust: brilliant leap of intuition, she realised that if it doesn't like me, it will tell me so straight away. It will not attempt the animals could help her to trick me. I only wish that I heal they could say do the same about most for others and so the Gentle Barn was born - a place where animals were brought as a place of the humans I encountersafety and where disadvantaged children and special needs groups could use as therapy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099740613</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David CavillMattinson_Happy|title=Canine PerspectivesThe Happy Puppy Handbook: Your Definitive Guide to Puppy Care and Early Training|author=Pippa Mattinson|rating=34.5

|summary=David Cavill has spent much Unfortunately far too many people acquire puppies because of his adult life around dogs, with the Finnish Spitz holding a special place in his heartaww... factor. Amongst other things - he was founder of the Animal Care CollegeThey look gorgeous, worked as a senior manager at Battersea Dogs' Homecuddly, judging cute - rather like an animated soft toy - and advising on 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 selection, care and training same level of pedigree planning as moving home and mongrel dogs - he wrote the best guide which I've seen to preparing for a regular column for ''Our Dogs'' newspaper puppy and the early stages of living with one is Pippa Mattinson''Dogs Monthly''s The Happy Puppy Handbook. Do get it well in advance. ItIf you's these and other articles which are reproduced here and as there's 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 time span great deal of fifteen years they allow the reader to see what has changed expense and - probably even more importantly - what hasn'theartache.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468104780</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam HayRosenfelt_Puppy|title=Archie the Guide Dog The PuppyExpress: Hero in TrainingOn the road with 25 rescue dogs . . . what could go wrong?|author=David Rosenfelt

|genre=Children's Non-FictionPets|summary=I donIf you't often pick up a nonre moving home from Southern California with twenty-fiction book for the 7+ age groupfive rescue dogs how, exactly, find do you do it riveting reading ? Add in that these are mostly elderly dogs who've already had too much change and trauma in their lives and informative about a subject with which Iit'm already familiar, but s obvious that was crating them and flying them across the case with country isn't going to work. They couldn'Archie: Hero in Training't all go together and the trip would take about twenty-four hours with all the changes - and that's before you even begin to think about the prohibitive cost. Archie is In the end, the answer was a puppy destined convoy of three motorhomes, the addition of nine helpers and just about non-stop driving across the continent. 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 be tell when a guide dog for is dreaming – the twitching limbs and jerking joints allegedly proving the sleeping Fido is imagining himself on the chase. Cats are, as always, a blind person 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Katz_Dog|title=The Dog Nobody Loved|author=Jon Katz|rating=4|genre=Pets|summary=When we first meet Jon Katz he's just one story not in a book about the pupsgood place: his marriage of thirty-in-trainingfive 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, the working dogsa Rottweiler/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 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 vet. What you get are seventy-two essays on subjects which dog lovers ponder on, each one just two or three pages long and written in terms which the occasional writer who grabs me by layman can understand. I've opened the short book at random and curlies with his observation of human naturefound ''Why Do Dogs Touch Noses?'', but accomplished children''Do Dogs Recognize Themselves in a Mirror?'' and ''Why Do Puppies Sleep in a Pile?'' There's writer Matt Whyman not only grabbed me, nothing there that you absolutely ''have'' to know so that you can keep a dog as he should be kept but sold me on by the mini-pigs as welltime that you've finished you will know him a lot better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444711466</amazonuk>