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[[Category:New Reviews|Pets]] __NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1780724047|title=A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs|author=Kate PredergastPeter 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=Dog on Worzel goes for a Train: The Special DeliveryWalk. Will you come too?|author=Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje

|summary=ItWhen 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 one of those mornings for Boy: late out of bed he grabs at his hat a bit better now and hurtles out of the house to catch his train - only he drops his hat as something which 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 really enjoys is losing ground as he has to find someone to carry him on the escalatorgoing for a walk. He misses Boy It's train not just a case of attaching a lead and has to wait heading for the next one, but remembers his manners well enough your favourite spot - there are a lot of other things to stand up so that an old lady can have his seatthink about first. Will he catch up with boy when he reaches London Kings Cross?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646083</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pippa MattinsonHainsworth_Gina|title=The Labrador Handbook: The definitive guide Talking to training and caring for your LabradorGina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth

|genre=PetsGraphic Novels|summary=In 2014 about 16% ''This is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the length of all pedigree puppies registered the country, Brighton to Grimsby, to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with the Kennel Club were Labradors - some mange and that's with over 200 breeds to choose fromone working eye. TheyWhy not? The first night at home, Gina – the dog – eats something she shouldn're one of the most respected breeds t and with good reason - causes a mess, so it's not a great as gundogsstart, brilliant in but then begin the show ring and a wonderful part tribulations of the family to boot. Author Pippa Mattinson is a zoologist training, status and founder of The Gundog Trustbehaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. She supports modernAnd then, science-based dog training methods - but her passion is the life with Gina begins to feel like too much – ''I felt weird about helping people to enjoy their dogsyou because you were always there. If My thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, as if I was in love.'re looking for advice about Labradors' Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, her husband, she is going two children and two cats – gets to be difficult to betterform the family they and Gina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785030914</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew PerrisIngram_Kammie|title=Beautiful Dogs Postcard Book: 30 Postcards of Champion Breeds to Keep or SendConversations with Kammie|author=Annie Ingram

|genre=PetsHumour|summary=If you're looking for It was something of a present relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for a dog lover, ''Beautiful Dogs'' might fit the bill. It's long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a book level of thirty postcards, which you can either send food! walk! or keep in the bookplay!. You might expect do require extensive training to find the more usual breeds - Labradorsbecome fluent, Retrievers and the like - but instead most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you'll find more exotic breeds such as the Bedlington Terrier and the Bologneseall you have to do is listen. There's just Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the one dog or bitch on each card and Andrew Perris has managed pair have allowed us to give us an excellent view share some of the animal whilst allowing it to look completely naturaltheir conversations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401660</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ellie LaksMattinson_Puppy|title=My Gentle Barn: where animals heal and children learn to hopeChoosing the Perfect Puppy|author=Pippa Mattinson

|genre=AutobiographyHome and Family|summary=As If you have ever, for even a child Ellie Laks was abusedfleeting moment, but not only did she suffer at the hands of her abuserthought about getting a puppy, she also had to endure parental indifference to what was happening you really ought to herread this book. Her only relief came through animals - Too many people are carried away in the heat of the moment and ''must'' have a particular breed and even go ahead without any thought about the consequences. They then she had have to cope when live with the animals were taken from herproblems which ''might'' have been avoided for a decade or more. As The puppy and the adult dog also has to live with an adult she discovered that she had a real talent for healing animals owner who might not be able to accommodate his needs. [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go- and that they helped her to heal tooauthor on matters dog related: she talks sense. In She doesn't try to talk you out of getting a brilliant leap of intuition particular breed or any puppy: she realised that if simply presents the animals could help her facts and allows you to heal 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 therapymake your own decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584883</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pippa MattinsonPickles_Worzel|title=The Happy Puppy Handbook: Your Definitive Guide to Puppy Care Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend?|author=Catherine Pickles and Early TrainingChantal Bourgonje|rating=4.5

|summary=Unfortunately far too many people acquire puppies because of the I'd like you to meet Worzel, but you'aww..ll need to do exactly what I say.Worzel is quite a big dog, but that doesn't mean that he' factors fierce, or even very brave. They look gorgeousIn fact, cuddlyhe's frightened, cute - rather like an animated soft toy - and there little as you are people who ''have, he's frightened of you. He' d like to have one. Now. The reality is meet you though: can you see that bringing a puppy into your home - into your life - requires about nose just poking out from the same level side of planning as moving home and the best guide which Isofa? Now he've seen to preparing for a puppy s peering over the cushion - and the early stages of living with one is Pippa Mattinsonfinally, he's The Happy Puppy Handbook. Do get it well in advance. If yourisking leaving that very safe place he're only thinking about getting a puppy it might even put you off - but then it will be well worth s found, behind the cover price if it saves you a great deal of expense and even more heartachesofa.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091957265</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Rosenfeltinstagram_dogs|title=The Puppy Express: On the road with 25 rescue dogs . . . what could go wrong?Dogs on Instagram|author=@dogsofinstagram|rating=43.5

|summary=If youI're moving home from Southern California with twenty five rescue m a sucker for dogs how, : I can''exactly'' do you do it? Add t walk past one in that these are mostly elderly the street without stopping and having a conversation, sometimes without bothering to speak to the owners, so a book of pictures of dogs who've already had too much change and trauma in their lives and it's obvious that crating them and flying them across country isn't was going to workbe right up my street. They couldn't all go together The wildly popular @dogs_of_instagram, run by Ahmed El Shourbagy and his wife Ashley and the trip would take about twenty launched just four years ago gives us this book of over four hours with all the changes - and thathundred photographs of dogs. Originally I had no intention of reviewing it: in fact I wasn's before you t even ''begin'' intending to think about read the prohibitive cost. In the end the answer was book, just to have a convoy of three motorhomesquick flick through, but within five minutes I was showing other people in the office the addition picture of nine helpers and just about non-stop driving across the continentWeimaraner riding a bicycle. Fun, eh?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751553522</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=I am Cat (mini edition)Prendergast_Digger|authortitle=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 Dog on the chase. Cats are, as always, a bit more secretive, but [[:CategoryDigger: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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805078</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Katz|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 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>}} {{newreviewTricky Incident|author=Stanley Coren|title=Do Dogs Dream?: Nearly Everything Your Dog Wants You to KnowKate Prendergast|rating=4.5

|summary=If you love dogs this book is an absolute gem. ItI's not m going to explain to tell you how to feed or train your dog. There's no advice on first aid or when you should seek advice from a story about Dog, Man, Lady and the vetPup. What you get are seventy two essays on subjects which dog lovers ponder They all work onan industrial site - in fact, each one just two or three pages long Dog and written Man live there in terms a caravan and Man drives the sort of digger which is dreamed about by boys large and small. Lady and the layman can understand. IPup run the snack bar and one day as they've opened re all having something to eat, the book at random Pup goes missing. Man and found Lady search everywhere but it'Why Do Dogs Touch Noses?s Dog', 'Do Dogs Recognize Themselves s sharp ears which finally track him down - caught in a Mirror?' and 'Why Do Puppies Sleep in branch over a Pile?' Therefast-flowing stream. And it's nothing there that Dog who works out how to rescue him. I needed 88 words to tell you absolutely ''have'' to know so that you can keep story, but Kate Prendergast does it without using a dog as he should be kept but by the time that you've finished you will know him single one - and she tells it in a lot betterfar more engaging way than I could ever manage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393338126</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 wouldns not daunted by the obstacles: she't be able s simply determined to have a dog until do all that she had possibly can to make the world a home of better place for dogs. Amanda lives with her own but in the meantime she got a job at Battersea Dogshusband Tobias, son Kyle and more than twenty rescue and sled dogs near Inverness. Very nice, you' Home and it was there that she met Gusre probably thinking. He wasnWouldn't in the first flush we all like to have that sort of youth and his breath was lifestyle? But hold on a weapon of mass destruction, but he and Melissa bonded and when he was very poorly - he had kennel cough - she took him homeminute.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849418179</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?

{{Frontpage|isbn=Mattinson_Labrador|title=The Labrador Handbook: The definitive guide to training and caring for your Labrador|author=Pippa Mattinson|rating=4.5|genre=Pets|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'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 family to boot. Author Pippa Mattinson is a zoologist 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're looking for advice about Labradors, she is going to be difficult to better.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike HenleyPerris_Dogs|title=One Dog and His ManBeautiful Dogs Postcard Book: 30 Postcards of Champion Breeds to Keep or Send|author=Andrew Perris

|summary=Oberon is If you're looking for a Labrador with present for a pedigree as long as your arm and ''One Dog and His Man'' is his story about what it's like living with the man he generously refers to as ''The Boss''dog lover, about life in general and the ways of Beautiful Dogs might fit the worldbill. Think It's a book of him as the canine equivalent of the parliamentary sketch writerthirty postcards, there to highlight the idiosyncrasies of human life and bring a gentle humour to situations which might otherwise be taken far too seriously. Before you wonder how this is possible - how a dog can write a either send or keep in the book - let me remind you that dogs are very intelligent animals. After all, dogs and their humans You might go expect to what are laughingly called 'dog training classes'find the more usual breeds - Labradors, Retrievers and the like - but itinstead, you'll find more exotic breeds such as the Bedlington Terrier and the Bolognese. There's just the humans who are trained, not one dog or bitch on each card and Andrew Perris has managed to give us an excellent view of the dogsanimal whilst allowing it to look completely natural.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471660354</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie CollinsLaks_Gentle|title=Tricks My Gentle Barn: where animals heal and Games To Teach Your Dog: How children learn to Turn Your Much-Loved Pet into an Accomplished Performerhope|author=Ellie Laks|rating=4.5

|summary=Over As a lifetime child, Ellie Laks was abused, but not only did she suffer at the hands of owning dogsher abuser, from the small she also had to endure parental indifference to what was happening to her. Her only relief came through animals - and nippy Jack Russells even then she had to cope when the large and loving Rhodesian Ridgebacksanimals were taken from her. As an adult, I've learned she discovered that the more you do with your dog she had a real talent for healing animals - the more you interact - the better your dog will be. People say and that they're not great conversationalists (personally I'd disagree) but they have a tremendous willingness helped her to please and they love to have fun with youheal too. Sophie Collins has put together In a collections brilliant leap of tricks and games which you can teach your dog and intuition, she realised that if the animals could help her to heal they range from could do the ''sit'', ''stay'' same for others and ''down'' so the Gentle Barn was born - a place where animals were brought as a place of basic training through to quite complicated tasks safety and agility training. There's something there for every size where disadvantaged children and every agespecial needs groups could use as therapy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005696</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill AbramsonMattinson_Happy|title=The Happy Puppy DiariesHandbook: Living with a Dog Named Scout Your Definitive Guide to Puppy Care and Early Training|author=Pippa Mattinson|rating=4.5

|summary=Jill Abramson had a dog whom she adored Unfortunately far too many people acquire puppies because of the aww... factor. They look gorgeous, cuddly, cute - a White West Highland by the name of Buddy rather like an animated soft toy - and after his death she wasn't certain there are people who have to have one. Now. The reality is that she wanted another dog. Would she bond with the newcomer? Would she always be comparing the pup with his predecessor? But bringing a puppy into your home - times change into your life - and in 2009 Jill and her husband Henry brought home a Golden Retriever by requires about the name same level of Scout. Over planning as moving home and the following year Abramson wrote best guide which I've seen to preparing for a column about raising Scout for puppy and the New York Times website and itearly stages of living with one is Pippa Mattinson's this column which forms the basis for 'The Happy Puppy Diaries: Living With Handbook. Do get it well in advance. If you're only thinking about getting a Dog Named Scout'puppy it might even put you off - but then it will be well worth the cover price if it saves you a great deal of expense and even more heartache.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444720635</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 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>