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[[Category:New Reviews|Pets]]==Pets==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1780724047|authortitle=Anne Fine A Dictionary of Interesting and Ruth BrownImportant Dogs|titleauthor=RugglesPeter J Conradi|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingPets|summary=Every dog owner has known I struggle to resist a dog like Rugglesbook about dogs, but I did wonder why this one was so ''thin'': theygiven that I're so good at escaping from where ever they are that theyve never encountered a dog who wasn're generally known as Houdinit interesting or important - and probably both, I was expecting a massive tome. Ruggles had it all worked out, from the opportunist hop over the fence aided by But ''A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs'' is actually ''a pile rich compendium of newspapers, a bucket and the rabbit hutch to who would snitch on him if he met them (unaccompanied) in the park. The dog lady knows him well world's most significant and whilst you wouldnbeloved dogs't quite call them friends ' and it's obvious that Ruggles knows when hecertainly 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 met his match love for each and hops every one of them. I knew that I was in the van without complaintsafe hands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392064</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexandra Horowitz1787112926|title=Inside of Worzel goes for a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell Walk. Will you come too?|author=Catherine Pickles and KnowChantal Bourgonje

|genre=PetsFor Sharing|summary=I've long been aware that our two dogs have methods of communication which are far more subtle than anything When we [[Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|last met Worzel Woolface]] he was a mere human can musterrather frightened dog who had difficulty meeting people. They sense exactly how we are feeling – He's a slight change in the atmosphere bit better now and they will be alertsomething which he really enjoys is going for a walk. The reactions to It's not just a frown or case of attaching a smile, laughter or tears lead and heading for your favourite spot - there are all different and they're capable of communicating with us in ways which have no need a lot of words. For a while I thought it was our dogs who were special (well, ''obviously'' they are…) but I've noticed other dogs communicating with each other and with humans and the more that I see the more that I wonder why they are referred things to as 'dumb animals'think about first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184737347X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick WadleyHainsworth_Gina|title=Man + DogTalking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth

|summary=Throughout my life It was something of a relief when I've lived encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with dogs humans and not just on a level of food! walk! or deeply regretted the fact that I lacked a canine companionplay!. Watching a dog – or better stillYou do require extensive training to become fluent, the interaction between but most dogs – is infinitely better than anything on television will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and it's sheer joy all you have to see how man do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and dog interacts and how, so often, they hold a mirror up the pair have allowed us to each othershare some of their conversations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1564785521</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona Louise Bate Mattinson_Puppy|title=GusChoosing the Perfect Puppy|author=Pippa Mattinson|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersHome and Family|summary=Gus is If you have ever, for even a fleeting moment, thought about getting a beaglepuppy, who stands upright with his tail held high and in you really ought to read this delightful little book he tells us about his day. He shares his garden with Too many people are carried away in the heat of the moment and ''must'' have a couple of tortoises called Dido particular breed and Hector, but only in summer as they disappear in wintergo ahead without any thought about the consequences. HeThey then have to live with the problems which 's 'might'' have been avoided for a decade or more. The puppy and the adult dog also has to live with an owner who loves might not be able to accommodate his comfort and we see him having his tummy tickled, snoozing, curled up in a chair and making artistic designs needs. [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go-to author on a white duvet with his muddy pawsmatters dog related: she talks sense. HeShe doesn's always alert though – t try to talk you out of getting a particular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the facts and squirrel knows when it's best allows you to make himself scarce, as do some plump pigeonsyour own decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312357</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=www.dogfriendly.co.uk Pickles_Worzel|title=Dog Friendly Pubs, Beaches and Days Out: Your Comprehensive Guide to Dog Friendly Pubs, Beaches Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend?|author=Catherine Pickles and Days Out Chantal Bourgonje|rating=35

|summary=If I'm going out for the day d like you to meet Worzel, but you'll need to enjoy myself do exactly what I want my dogs with mesay. It's not just that I enjoy their companyWorzel is quite a big dog, but I donthat doesn't like leaving them in the house for too longmean that he's fierce, or even very brave. Ideas for days out In fact, he's frightened, and little as you are always welcome, he's frightened of you. ItHe's good d like to know about pubs meet you though: can you see that are not going to frown as you get to nose just poking out from the side of the door and if wesofa? Now he're heading to s peering over the coast I like to know which beaches we can use cushion - and if there are any restrictions. finally, he's risking leaving that very safe place he'Pubss found, Beaches and Days Out'' aims to fill a hole! How does it do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956045952</amazonuk>behind the sofa.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=www.dogfriendly.co.uk instagram_dogs|title=Dog Friendly Camping and Caravan Sites: Your Comprehensive Guide to Dog Friendly Camping and Caravan SitesDogs on Instagram|author=@dogsofinstagram|rating=23.5

|summary=If youI're going camping or caravanning itm a sucker for dogs: I can's not always easy t walk past one in the street without stopping and having a conversation, sometimes without bothering to speak to take your the owners, so a book of pictures of dogs with youwas going to be right up my street. Some sites don't allow dogs; others have restrictions on breedsThe wildly popular @dogs_of_instagram, size or number run by Ahmed El Shourbagy and his wife Ashley and launched just four years ago gives us this book of over four hundred photographs of dogs, whilst others make a charge. YouOriginally I had no intention of reviewing it: in fact I wasn're then faced with wondering whether there will be somewhere t even intending to exercise the dogs and how easy it will be to get rid of read thebook, er, deposits! ''Dog Friendly Camping and Caravan Sites: Your Comprehensive Guide just to Dog Friendly Camping and Caravan Sites'' is an answer to thishave a quick flick through, but it's nowhere near as comprehensive as within five minutes I was showing other people in the office the picture of the title would suggestWeimaraner riding a bicycle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956045936</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=www.dogfriendly.co.ukPrendergast_Digger|title=Dog Friendly Hotelson a Digger: The Tricky Incident|author=Kate Prendergast|rating=3.5

|summary=I have two big dogs'm going to tell you a story about Dog, Man, Lady and the Pup. They're Rhodesian Ridgebacks – quietall work on an industrial site - in fact, well-behaved Dog and Man live there in a caravan and Man drives the sort of digger which is dreamed about by boys large and small. Lady and friendly dogs – the Pup run the snack bar and one day as they're familyall having something to eat, the Pup goes missing. IMan and Lady search everywhere but it's Dog've no wish to put them s sharp ears which finally track him down - caught in kennels so that I can go on holiday any more than most families would want to put the children in kennels for the same purposea branch over a fast-flowing stream. But finding somewhere which doesnAnd it't just tolerate my dogs but actively makes them welcome is not easys Dog who works out how to rescue him. I've found hotels which say 'Dogs Welcome' but when needed 88 words to tell you enquire they actually mean that you can bring story, but Kate Prendergast does it without using a single one small dog which must never be left alone - and for which they'll make she tells it in a charge. That's why this book is such a relieffar more engaging way than I could ever manage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956045928</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma DoddStrachan_50Cat|title=I Don't Want A Cool 50 Games to Play With Your Cat|author=Jackie Strachan|rating=45|genre=For SharingPets|summary=Emma Dodd's [[I Don't Want Cats love to play. It is written in their DNA. From kittenhood onward, an innate curiosity about the world around them spurs cats to view everything as a Posh Dog by Emma Dodd|previous book]] saw her turning her nose up posh dogspotential plaything. For cats, the desire to play helps them to hone their hunting skills. Here she doesn't want a cool For catowners, it provides an opportunity to bond with a treat her like a fool much-loved pet and create special moments that are entertaining to both catand human alike. There If you are all sorts of other cats she doesn't wantstuck for ideas for games to play with your cat, until she gets or would simply like to the type try something new, then 50 Games To Play With Your Cat provides plenty of cat she can call her owninspiration.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184616950X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lady Annabel GoldsmithLeask_Miracle|title=CopperMiracle: A Dog's LifeThe extraordinary dog that refused to die|author=Amanda Leask

|genre=HumourPets|summary=Copper was one of Amanda Leask has been obsessed with dogs all her life and it's been an obsession which needs the world and a litter lot of its attitudes to dogs born to a stray bitch and who was 'adopted' by Lady Annabel Goldsmith - or might it be change for the other way round?. Here he tells his story in his own words as transcribed for him by his ownerbetter. HeShe's got his own priorities – and obedience is not one of them – along with a roving spirit. Itdaunted by the obstacles: she's perhaps fortunate simply determined to do all that he's she possibly can to make the world a dog as this allows better place for dogs. Amanda lives with her husband Tobias, son Kyle and more than twenty rescue and sled dogs near Inverness. Very nice, you to call him 'cheeky' and 'charming're probably thinking. If he was a human being Wouldn'randy' and 'arrogant' would be two t we all like to have that sort of the first words which came to mindlifestyle? But hold on a minute.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751538205</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily GravettPrendergast_Train|title=Dogs|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=We don't know who it is who tells us that they love dogs, well not to start with, but the narrator is adamant. They love big dogs and small dogs – and we see a glorious Great Dane, all legs and inquisitive face with Dog on a delicate Chihuahua nestled between his paws. You don't know who will have the best of it but that Chihuahua looks pretty fearsome.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230704220</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTrain: The Special Delivery|author=Gene Weingarten and Michael S Williamson (Photographer)|title=Old DogsKate Prendergast

|summary=As a reviewer I see a lot It's one of books those mornings for Boy: late out of bed he grabs at his hat and whilst I read I'm usually wondering about who I'll pass hurtles out of the book on house to when I've finished catch his train - only he drops his hat as he goes through the door and Dog chases after him with the reviewhat in his mouth. Will it be a friend, They head to the local library or one of our schools? Ittube station (Dog doesn's a part of my reviewing process t forget to think about where wait at the book will sit most happily. With ''Old Dogs'' I was only a few pages zebra crossing) with boy just twenty or so yards in before I was considering whether it should live front, but Dog is losing ground as he has to find someone to carry him on my bedside table or in the main bookshelvesescalator. The bedside table wonHe misses Boy's train and has to wait for the next one, but remembers his manners well enough to stand up so that an old lady can have his seat. Easily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1416534997</amazonuk>Will he catch up with boy when he reaches London Kings Cross?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew ColeMattinson_Labrador|title=Will Work The Labrador Handbook: The definitive guide to training and caring for Nutsyour Labrador|author=Pippa Mattinson|rating=34.5

|summary=The intrepid adventurer faces a most daunting challengeIn 2014 about 16% of all pedigree puppies registered with the Kennel Club were Labradors - and that's with over 200 breeds to choose from. Girding his loins in anticipation They're one of achieving his goal, he leaps into action, hellthe most respected breeds and with good reason -bent only on successgreat as gundogs, never fearing brilliant in the show ring and a wonderful part of the inherent dangerfamily to boot. With death-defying stunts Author Pippa Mattinson is a zoologist and leaps aplentyfounder of The Gundog Trust. She supports modern, he needs science-based dog training methods - but her passion is about helping people to use any vehicles he finds in his path, untold balancing skills, nerve-racking whippy plastic stick things, and an awful lot moreenjoy their dogs. Finally his litheIf you're looking for advice about Labradors, muscular frame lands near his target, and he sits back and eats his nutsshe is going to be difficult to better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007279574</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eric NakagawaPerris_Dogs|title=I Can Has Cheezburger Beautiful Dogs Postcard Book: 30 Postcards of Champion Breeds to Keep or Send|author=Andrew Perris

|summary=If you're looking for a present for a dog lover, Beautiful Dogs might fit the bill. It'I Can Has Cheezburger'', is s a clever and witty anthology of some book of thirty postcards, which you can either send or keep in the book. You might expect to find the best pictures more usual breeds - Labradors, Retrievers and captions from the fantastic [http://icanhascheezburger.com/ lolcats website] of like - but instead, you'll find more exotic breeds such as the same name. The site has been growing in popularity in recent months, Bedlington Terrier and so it was inevitable that a book would soon hit the shelvesBolognese. Choosing which pics There's just the one dog or bitch on each card and Andrew Perris has managed to include in the book could not have been give us an easy task, and some excellent view of the old favourites are there, alongside some less well known onesanimal whilst allowing it to look completely natural.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340977574</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Turid RugaasLaks_Gentle|title=On Talking Terms With DogsMy Gentle Barn: Calming Signalswhere animals heal and children learn to hope|author=Ellie Laks|rating=34.5

|summary=I've long been aware that my two Rhodesian Ridgebacks can communicate with each other in ways far more subtle than any human being can muster. A glanceAs a child, Ellie Laks was abused, a tilt of but not only did she suffer at the head or a flick hands of the tongue her abuser, she also had to endure parental indifference to what was happening to her. Her only relief came through animals - and even then she had to cope when the message is received animals were taken from her. As an adult, she discovered that she had a real talent for healing animals - and understoodthat they helped her to heal too. Our older dog is known as Rosie Glare. I don't know what In a brilliant leap of intuition, she realised that if the facial expression does animals could help her to heal they could do the same for others and so the younger dog, but it certainly puts me in my Gentle Barn was born - a place where animals were brought as a placeof safety and where disadvantaged children and special needs groups could use as therapy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954803213</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Turid RugaasMattinson_Happy|title=What Do I Do When... My Dog Pulls?The Happy Puppy Handbook: Your Definitive Guide to Puppy Care and Early Training|author=Pippa Mattinson

|summary=If you ask dog owners what problems they Unfortunately far too many people acquire puppies because of the aww... factor. They look gorgeous, cuddly, cute - rather like an animated soft toy - and there are people who have to have with their pets you can be certain one. Now. The reality is that some will come up time bringing a puppy into your home - into your life - requires about the same level of planning as moving home and time again. Failure the best guide which I've seen to return when called is common, as is intrusive barking but preparing for a puppy and the early stages of living with one that comes up most often is the failure to walk properly on Pippa Mattinson's The Happy Puppy Handbook. Do get it well in advance. If you're only thinking about getting a lead. It puppy it might not seem to be a major problem if even put you have a small dog off - but for those of us with big dogs – I have two Rhodesian Ridgebacks – then it can will be well worth the cover price if it saves you a major and dangerous problem, particularly in frosty weather. If my two dogs decided to pull there is no way that I could control their combined weight great deal of 75kg - expense and most of it is solid muscleeven more heartache.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954803205</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rex HarperRosenfelt_Puppy|title=An Eagle in The Puppy Express: On the Airing Cupboardroad with 25 rescue dogs . . . what could go wrong?|author=David Rosenfelt|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyPets|summary=We first met Rex Harper in [[An Otter on the Aga]] where he told us of If you're moving home from Southern California with twenty-five rescue dogs how he and his wife, Julie worked first to help injured or abused animals and then founded their own animal sanctuary. It was a book of laughterexactly, sadness at the way do you do it? Add in that some people will treat animals and gratitude that there these are people like Rex mostly elderly dogs who've already had too much change and Julie who devote trauma in their lives and it's obvious that crating them and flying them across the country isn't going to the welfare of animalswork. At the end of ''Otter'They couldn' t all go together and the sanctuary had been taken over by trip would take about twenty-four hours with all the RSPCA changes - and that''An Eagle in s before you even begin to think about the prohibitive cost. In the end, the Airing Cupboard'' takes up where ''Otter'' finished and looks at answer was a year in convoy of three motorhomes, the life addition of a wardennine helpers and just about non-stop driving across the continent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755318021</amazonuk>Fun, eh?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Newbery and Catherine Rayner Morris_Iamcat|title=Posy I am Cat (mini edition)|author=Jackie Morris|rating=54|genre=For SharingPets|summary=IYou've got re always supposed to tell when a new best friend. She's called Posy. Posy dog is a kitten dreaming – the twitching limbs and her fur jerking joints allegedly proving the sleeping Fido is that wonderful mixture of black, brown and cream that we call tabbyimagining himself on the chase. Under her tummyCats are, all four paws and her face look as though they've been dipped in always, a bowl of creambit more secretive, whichbut Jackie Morris offers evidence here that they are more or less thinking the same thing – even the domestic moggy, knowing Posycurled up and closed in, is quite possiblepicturing a different self – one sleeking through snows, relaxing on the savannah or alertly moving through its territory. SheIt's still finding out about a very pleasant view into the world, you seemindset of cats.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843629909</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graeme SimsKatz_Dog|title=The Dog WhispererNobody Loved|author=Jon Katz|rating=4.5

|summary=Graeme Sims is rightly proud of all that When we first meet Jon Katz he's achieved not in life. After a catastrophic business collapse (at the age good place: his marriage of fifty) which thirty-five years was none of his fault, breaking up and he and his wife Maureen made the decision was close to move to rural Devon, but on the eve of their departure he encountered a stray dognervous breakdown. He didn't need any more problems. Annie was He particularly ''didn't'' need a young rescue dog, a Rottweiler/Shepherd mix, who'd been living wild, to contend with and to change his upset the fragile equilibrium of the life in ways that he couldn't imaginelived with his animals on Bedlam Farm. From being unemployable he Frieda was near feral but devoted to become a shepherdher rescuer, presenter Maria Wulf and it was Maria who was at the centre of demonstrations in a theme park and dog trainerthis conundrum. Graeme Sims 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 discovered that he was capable of communicating to connect with dogs and could understand what they were telling himFrieda too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755316983</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna QuindlenCoren_Dogs|title=Life with BeauDo Dogs Dream?: A Tale of a Nearly Everything Your Dog and His Family Wants You to Know|author=Stanley Coren

|summary=BristolIf you love dogs this book is an absolute gem. It's Beauregard Buchanan, Beau not going to explain to you how to his family and friends, is an old feed or train your dog when we first meet him. Whilst Anna Quindlen is at the vetThere's collecting his prescription Beau is sleeping no advice on first aid or when you should seek advice from the rug 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 foyerlayman can understand. The rug smells. Beau smells I've opened the book at random and he has little sight or hearingfound ''Why Do Dogs Touch Noses?'', but then he's nearly fifteen years old. He's reached that stage Do Dogs Recognize Themselves in an older doga Mirror?'' and 's life when there's no point Why Do Puppies Sleep in his going to see the vet (he certainly doesna Pile?'' There't want to go s nothing there ever again, after what happened to his prostate…) and the next house call will be the last.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091921228</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview |title=The Loved Dog|author=Tamar Geller|genre=Pets|rating=4|summary=People tell me that Iyou absolutely ''have'm fortunate in my dogs: they're usually well-behaved and a pleasure to be around despite the fact know so that they're really rather big. In much the same way that Gary Player hit the nail on the head when he said that the harder you can keep a dog as he practiced the luckier he got, well-mannered dogs are generally the product of an assiduous training regime. In the past it was thought that this could only should be achieved by dominating the dog kept but by brute force if necessary and with the aid of such implements of torture as the choke chain. The one area in which I was fortunate is time that once I saw the size and strength of you've finished you will know him a fully-grown Rhodesian Ridgeback I knew that I had no hope of physically dominating the dog. I would have to find some other method of traininglot better. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091922259</amazonuk>