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|summary=Readers come I struggle to books for strange reasons resist a book about dogs, but I dondid wonder why this one was so ''thin''t think : given that I've ever before picked up never encountered a bookdog who wasn't interesting or important - and probably both, looked at the title and being intrigued not by what I was suggested but by how anyone could think differentlyexpecting a massive tome. But ''A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs Never Lie About Love'' is actually ''a statement rich compendium of the obvious to me. Iworld've lived with s most significant and around beloved dogs for most of my life '' and I know that dogs are incapable of pretenceit's certainly a rich treasure trove. IWe begin with Peter J Conradi've never met a dog I couldn't trusts four collies: if it doesn't like meCloudy, it will tell me so straight awaySky. Bradley and Max. It will not attempt to trick meThey're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogs, but what comes over is Conradi's love for each and every one of them. I only wish knew that I could say the same about most of the humans I encounterwas in safe hands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099740613</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Cavill1787112926|title=Canine PerspectivesWorzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too?|author=Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|rating=35|genre=PetsFor Sharing|summary=David Cavill has spent much of his adult life around dogs, with the Finnish Spitz holding When we [[Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|last met Worzel Woolface]] he was a special place in his heartrather frightened dog who had difficulty meeting people. Amongst other things - he was founder of the Animal Care College, worked as He's a senior manager at Battersea Dogs' Home, judging bit better now and advising on the selection, care and training of pedigree and mongrel dogs - something which he wrote really enjoys is going for a regular column for ''Our Dogs'' newspaper and ''Dogs Monthly''walk. It's these not just a case of attaching a lead and other articles which heading for your favourite spot - there are reproduced here and as there's a time span lot of fifteen years they allow the reader other things to see what has changed and - probably more importantly - what hasn'tthink about first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468104780</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam HayHainsworth_Gina|title=Archie the Guide Dog Puppy: Hero in TrainingTalking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth

|genre=Children's Non-FictionGraphic Novels|summary=I don't often pick up 'This is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a non-fiction book for dog – so drove the length of the 7+ age groupcountry, find it riveting reading and informative about a subject with which I'm already familiarBrighton to Grimsby, but that was the case to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with ''Archie: Hero in Training''some mange and one working eye. Archie is a puppy destined to be a guide Why not? The first night at home, Gina – the dog for – eats something she shouldn't and causes a blind person and hemess, so it's just one story in not a book about great start, but then begin the pups-in-tribulations of training, the working status and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. And then, the adults who have guide dogs, or struggle life with Gina begins to learn the techniques - or even what happens to the dogs who donfeel like too much – 't turn out to be what's neededI felt weird about you because you were always there. ThereMy thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, as if I was in love.'s a full range as well as information about what a guide dog costs - and it's not cheap!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033053792X< Slowly, 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|authorisbn=Matt WhymanIngram_Kammie|title=Pig in the MiddleConversations with Kammie|author=Annie Ingram|rating=4.5|genre=PetsHumour|summary=It was something of a relief when I'm so pleased I read this bookencountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. It's only the occasional writer who grabs You see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me by the short for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and curlies with his observation not just on a level of human naturefood! walk! or play!. You do require extensive training to become fluent, but accomplished children's writer Matt Whyman not only grabbed me, but sold me on most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and all you have to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the mini-pigs as wellpair have allowed us to share some of their conversations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444711466</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gordon GriceMattinson_Puppy|title=The Book of Deadly AnimalsChoosing the Perfect Puppy|author=Pippa Mattinson

|genre=Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary=Animals and humans If you have long mixedever, for even though the one has almost always proven capable of being lethal a fleeting moment, thought about getting a puppy, you really ought to the otherread this book. Many scientists Too many people are carried away in the past decided animals killing humans were aberrant, heat of the moment and ''must'' have a particular breed and that go ahead without any thought about the real animal knew it was second best consequences. They then have to humans, having live with the problems which ''might'' have been saved in the Ark, and respected our dominion over themavoided for a decade or more. Even now, it seems, there are opinions that creatures attacking mankind are somehow rogue The puppy and need destroyingthe adult dog also has to live with an owner who might not be able to accommodate his needs. But where [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is the wrong in an animal behaving as its nature compels it? my go-to author on matters dog related: she talks sense. Similarly, the human wandering around the wilderness, She doesn't try to talk you out of getting a particular breed or even any puppy: she simply presents the idiot woman feeding a black bear her facts and allows you to make your own toddler's honey-dripping hand (true story - what the bear thought of the taste of honeyed fingers we don't know) is just the same in reverse - humans behaving as only humans candecisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919675</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom RyanPickles_Worzel|title=Following Atticus: How a little dog led one man on a journey of rediscovery to the top of the world Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend?|author=Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|rating=45

|summary=Tom Ryan I'd like you to meet Worzel, but you'll need to do exactly what I say. Worzel is quite a middle-agedbig dog, stressed journalistbut that doesn't mean that he's fierce, running his own newspaperor even very brave. In fact, the he''Undertoad'' in Newburyport in America. His life is full of political intrigues s frightened, and mayoral electionslittle as you are, boardroom deals and subterfuge and his life is full he's frightened of challengesyou. He doesn't need a dog. He doesnd like to meet you though: can you see that nose just poking out from the side of the sofa? Now he't even particularly want a dogs peering over the cushion - and finally, but when a miniature schnauzer enters his life one dayhe's risking leaving that very safe place he's found, everything changesbehind the sofa.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141048972</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Betty G Birneyinstagram_dogs|title=Humphrey's World of Pets|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The verb to pet means to cosset, pay loving attention to, to have loving, touching time with. It might as well mean to have in your household while spending a lot of money Dogs on, and being duty-bound and beholden to. Fish (which you can't even properly pet, of course) need a permanent power supply for their water's thermometer. Chinchillas need a special sand for their bathing in. There's even pet-friendly detergents for washing out your hamster cages. Wherever you look there's time and money expenditure in owning a pet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571270263</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewInstagram|author=Tom Cox|title=Talk to the Tail: Adventures in Cat Ownership and Beyond@dogsofinstagram|rating=43.5

|summary=Are you I'm a cat person weaned on [[Deweysucker for dogs: The True Story of I can't walk past one in the street without stopping and having a World-famous Library Cat by Vicki Myron and Brett Witter|Dewey conversation, sometimes without bothering to speak to the library cat]]owners, or Marilyn Edwards' rural tales or Doreen Tovey's precious Siamese stories? Do you enjoy cosy, slightly twee reminiscences so a book of pictures of much loved felines? If so, look away now… 'Talk dogs was going to the Tail' is that rare bird: a cat eulogy written by a manbe right up my street. As such it features rather more incidents involving fightsThe wildly popular @dogs_of_instagram, bottom washing, urine stained rugs run by Ahmed El Shourbagy and his wife Ashley and feline sexual exploits than your average launched just four years ago gives us this book about cats. O.Kof over four hundred photographs of dogs. Originally I had no intention of reviewing it: in fact Iwasn'm exaggerating slightlyt even intending to read the book, just to have a quick flick through, but reader be warned; within five minutes I was showing other people in the office the picture of the mad cat man is Weimaraner riding a different beast to the mad cat woman. It's less furry babies and more furry nightmaresbicycle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184737817X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denis O'ConnorPrendergast_Digger|title=Paw Tracks at Owl CottageDog on a Digger: The Tricky Incident|author=Kate Prendergast|rating=3.5

|summary=I'Paw Tracks at Owl Cottage' is m going to tell you a story about Dog, Man, Lady and the Pup. They all work on an industrial site - in fact, Dog and Man live there in a caravan and Man drives the story sort of four pedigree Maine Coon cats digger which the author is dreamed about by boys large and his wife acquired after moving back to a cottage where they had previously livedsmall. This is Lady and the sequel to a volume called 'Paw Tracks in Pup run the Moonlightsnack bar and one day as they're all having something to eat, which I have not read, the Pup goes missing. Man and Lady search everywhere but it's Dog's sharp ears which features their first cat Toby Jugfinally track him down - caught in a branch over a fast-flowing stream. ApparentlyAnd it's Dog who works out how to rescue him. I needed 88 words to tell you that story, on his demise, they had sold the cottage; but now, Kate Prendergast does it without using a little more advanced in years, they buy it again, single one - and do extensive renovations before deciding that she tells it's ready for another catin a far more engaging way than I could ever manage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849016402</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Megan RixStrachan_50Cat|title=The Puppy That Came For Christmas and Stayed Forever50 Games to Play With Your Cat|author=Jackie Strachan|rating=45

|summary=Megan Rix and husband Ian took on two massive challenges at the same time. Their failure Cats love to conceive a child became something of an issue with Megan being, as she herself said 'north of forty'play. Time was passing quickly and it looked as though IVF was the only option if they were to have the long-for child. It's time-consuming and traumaticis written in their DNA. At From kittenhood onward, an innate curiosity about the same time the couple became involved with world around them spurs cats to view everything as a charity which provides helper dogs for people with disabilitiespotential plaything. Puppies come For cats, the desire to a family for six months play helps them to do hone their basic training and then move onhunting skills. And that was how EmmaFor cat owners, it provides an opportunity to bond with a soft, sweetmuch-naturedloved pet and create special moments that are entertaining to both cat and human alike. If you are stuck for ideas for games to play with your cat, adorable puppy came into their lives. Predictablyor would simply like to try something new, they fell in love with herthen 50 Games To Play With Your Cat provides plenty of inspiration.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951062</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vicki Myron and Brett WitterLeask_Miracle|title=Dewey's Nine LivesMiracle: The Legacy of the Small-town Library Cat Who Inspired Millionsextraordinary dog that refused to die|author=Amanda Leask

|summary=Having read [[Dewey: The True Story Amanda Leask has been obsessed with dogs all her life and it's been an obsession which needs the world and a lot of a World-famous Library Cat its attitudes to dogs to change for the better. She's not daunted by Vicki Myron and Brett Witter|Deweythe obstacles: The Small-town Library-cat Who Touched the World]] and having thoroughly enjoyed reading about that delightful catshe's escapades in Spencer Library, I was intrigued simply determined to discover do all that she possibly can to make the authorworld a better place for dogs. Amanda lives with her husband Tobias, Vicki Myronson Kyle and more than twenty rescue and sled dogs near Inverness. Very nice, had written a follow up book entitled Deweyyou's Nine Livesre probably thinking. At first I thought this might hold many more stories about Dewey but it turned out Wouldn't we all like to have that this was a collection sort of short stories each featuring lifestyle? But hold on a different exceptional cat. All of their owners had been so moved after reading about Dewey that they felt compelled to contact Vicki and share their stories. Dewey's Nine Lives is a tribute to cats and their owners everywhereminute.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847378560</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judith SummersPrendergast_Train|title=Dog on a Train: The Badness of King GeorgeSpecial Delivery|author=Kate Prendergast

|genre=AutobiographyPets|summary=People know how to get round me: they offer me a book and then say 'It's about a dog' one of those mornings for Boy: late out of bed he grabs at his hat and like Pavlov's canine I say 'Oh, lovely'. And so it was with The Badness hurtles out of King George. George is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel the house to catch his train - only he drops his hat as he goes through the door and I have to quibble Dog chases after him with the title – superb as it is – because George is not badhat in his mouth. If anything heThey head to the tube station (Dog doesn's badly done by t forget to wait at the zebra crossing) with boy just twenty or so yards in front, but Dog is losing ground as Judith Summers, plagued by empty nest syndrome when her son goes he has to university, decides find someone to foster rescue dogscarry him on the escalator. Poor George has absolutely no idea what sheHe misses Boy's let him in train and has to wait forthe next one, but remembers his manners well enough to stand up so that an old lady can have his seat. And nor has Judith.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141046473</amazonuk>Will he catch up with boy when he reaches London Kings Cross?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Axel SchefflerMattinson_Labrador|title=How to Keep a Pet Squirrel|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=So, how do you keep a pet squirrel? Well, the simple answer is that you don't. They're wild animals and not at all suitable for keeping in captivity, but accepted thinking didn't always run that way. It was whilst he was dipping into ''The Children's Encyclopaedia'' of 1910 that Axel Scheffler came across a small but indispensible Labrador Handbook: The definitive guide to obtaining training and caring for your pet squirrel. His inventive mind came up with these beautiful illustrations to accompany the text and if you're looking for an amusing gift for an animal-loving adult then this book could well be the answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571255981</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewLabrador|author=Steve Duno|title=Last Dog On The HillPippa Mattinson|rating=4.5

|summary=Driving through northern California Steve Duno found a puppy by the side In 2014 about 16% of all pedigree puppies registered with the road. He was fleaKennel Club were Labradors -bitten, tic infested, emaciated and suffering that's with over 200 breeds to choose from an infection. His father was a Rottweiler They're one of the most respected breeds and his mother a German Shepherd with good reason - both were guard dogs at great as gundogs, brilliant in the local marijuana farm. When Steve whistled show ring and a wonderful part of the dog came family to him boot. Author Pippa Mattinson is a zoologist and it's no exaggeration to say that in that moment his life changedfounder of The Gundog Trust. He'd always wanted a She supports modern, science-based dog, training methods - but hadn't been able her passion is about helping people to have one as a childenjoy their dogs. There was a momentIf you's indecision at the side of the road – and then Lou became Steve's dogre looking for advice about Labradors, she is going to be difficult to better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330520024</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Finden and Linda Watson-BrownPerris_Dogs|title=Casper the Commuting CatBeautiful Dogs Postcard Book: The True Story 30 Postcards of the Cat Who Rode the Bus and Stole Our HeartsChampion Breeds to Keep or Send|author=Andrew Perris

|summary=In 2009 as Susan Finden set out to catch If you're looking for a present for a dog lover, Beautiful Dogs might fit the bus from bill. It's a book of thirty postcards, which you can either send or keep in the bus stop opposite her house in Plymouth she noticed her cat Casper watching herbook. Afraid he would follow her across the busy road she urged the bus driver You might expect to move off quickly. But when find the bus driver told her that ''more usual breeds - Labradors, Retrievers and the only thing like - but instead, you've got to worry about is that you're sitting in his seat,'ll find more exotic breeds such as the Bedlington Terrier and the Bolognese. There' Susan finally had s just the answer one dog or bitch on each card and Andrew Perris has managed to where Casper disappeared give us an excellent view of the animal whilst allowing it to each daylook completely natural.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857200089</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Laks_Gentle|authortitle=Anne Fine My Gentle Barn: where animals heal and Ruth Brownchildren learn to hope|titleauthor=RugglesEllie Laks

|summary=I've long been aware that our two dogs have methods As a child, Ellie Laks was abused, but not only did she suffer at the hands of communication which are far more subtle than anything a mere human can musterher 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 animals were taken from her. They sense exactly how we are feeling – As an adult, she discovered that she had a slight change in the atmosphere real talent for healing animals - and that they will be alerthelped her to heal too. The reactions to In a frown or a smilebrilliant leap of intuition, laughter or tears are all different she realised that if the animals could help her to heal they could do the same for others and they're capable of communicating with us in ways which have no need of words. For so the Gentle Barn was born - a while I thought it was our dogs who place where animals were special (well, ''obviously'' they are…) but I've noticed other dogs communicating with each other brought as a place of safety and with humans where disadvantaged children and the more that I see the more that I wonder why they are referred to special needs groups could use as 'dumb animals'therapy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184737347X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick WadleyMattinson_Happy|title=Man + DogThe Happy Puppy Handbook: Your Definitive Guide to Puppy Care and Early Training|author=Pippa Mattinson

|summary=If I'm going out for Unfortunately far too many people acquire puppies because of the day to enjoy myself I want my dogs with meaww... factor. It's not just that I enjoy their companyThey look gorgeous, cuddly, but I don't cute - rather like leaving them in the house for too longan animated soft toy - and there are people who have to have one. Ideas for days out are always welcomeNow. It's good to know The reality is that bringing a puppy into your home - into your life - requires about pubs that are not going to frown the same level of planning as you get to the door moving home and if we're heading to the coast best guide which I like 've seen to know which beaches we can use preparing for a puppy and if there are any restrictionsthe early stages of living with one is Pippa Mattinson's The Happy Puppy Handbook. Do get it well in advance. If you''Pubs, Beaches and Days Out'' aims to fill re only thinking about getting a hole! How does puppy it might even put you off - but then it will be well worth the cover price if it do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956045952</amazonuk>saves you a great deal of expense and even more heartache.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rosenfelt_Puppy|title=wwwThe Puppy Express: On the road with 25 rescue dogs .dogfriendly.co.uk what could go wrong?|titleauthor=Dog Friendly Camping and Caravan Sites: Your Comprehensive Guide to Dog Friendly Camping and Caravan SitesDavid Rosenfelt|rating=24.5

|summary=If you're going camping or caravanning moving home from Southern California with twenty-five rescue dogs how, exactly, do you do it? Add in that these are mostly elderly dogs who've already had too much change and trauma in their lives and it's not always easy obvious that crating them and flying them across the country isn't going to take your dogs with youwork. Some sites donThey couldn't allow dogs; others have restrictions on breeds, size or number of dogs, whilst others make a charge. You're then faced all go together and the trip would take about twenty-four hours with wondering whether there will be somewhere to exercise all the dogs changes - and how easy it will be that's before you even begin to get rid of think about the prohibitive cost. In theend, erthe answer was a convoy of three motorhomes, deposits! ''Dog Friendly Camping and Caravan Sites: Your Comprehensive Guide to Dog Friendly Camping the addition of nine helpers and Caravan Sites'' is an answer to this, but it's nowhere near as comprehensive as just about non-stop driving across the title would suggestcontinent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956045936</amazonuk>Fun, eh?

 {{newreview|author=www.dogfriendly.co.uk|title=Dog Friendly Hotels|rating=3.5|genre=Pets|summary=I have two big dogs. They're Rhodesian Ridgebacks – quiet, well-behaved and friendly dogs – and they're family. I've no wish to put them 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 purpose. But finding somewhere which doesn't just tolerate my dogs but actively makes them welcome is not easy. I've found hotels which say 'Dogs Welcome' but when you enquire they actually mean that you can bring one small dog which must never be left alone and for which they'll make a charge. That's why this book is such a relief.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956045928</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma DoddMorris_Iamcat|title=I Don't Want A Cool am Cat|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Emma Dodd's [[I Don't Want a Posh Dog by Emma Dodd|previous book]] saw her turning her nose up posh dogs. Here she doesn't want a cool cat, a treat her like a fool cat. There are all sorts of other cats she doesn't want, until she gets to the type of cat she can call her own.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184616950X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview(mini edition)|author=Lady Annabel Goldsmith|title=Copper: A Dog's LifeJackie Morris

|summary=The intrepid adventurer faces You're always supposed to tell when a most daunting challengedog is dreaming – the twitching limbs and jerking joints allegedly proving the sleeping Fido is imagining himself on the chase. Girding his loins in anticipation of achieving his goalCats are, he leaps into actionas always, hell-bent only on successa bit more secretive, never fearing but Jackie Morris offers evidence here that they are more or less thinking the same thing – even the inherent danger. With death-defying stunts domestic moggy, curled up and leaps aplenty, he needs to use any vehicles he finds closed in his path, untold balancing skillsis picturing a different self – one sleeking through snows, nerve-racking whippy plastic stick things, and an awful lot morerelaxing on the savannah or alertly moving through its territory. Finally his lithe, muscular frame lands near his target, and he sits back and eats his nutsIt's a very pleasant view into the mindset of cats.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007279574</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eric NakagawaKatz_Dog|title=I Can Has Cheezburger The Dog Nobody Loved|author=Jon Katz

|summary=When we first meet Jon Katz he''I Can Has Cheezburger'', is s not in a clever and witty anthology of some of the best pictures and captions from the fantastic [httpgood place://icanhascheezburger.com/ lolcats website] his marriage of the same name. The site has been growing in popularity in recent months, thirty-five years was breaking up and so it he was inevitable that close to a book would soon hit the shelvesnervous breakdown. Choosing which pics to include in the book could not have been an easy task, and some of the old favourites are there, alongside some less well known ones.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340977574</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Turid Rugaas|title=On Talking Terms With Dogs: Calming Signals|rating=3.5|genre=Pets|summary=I He didn've long been aware that my two Rhodesian Ridgebacks can communicate with each other in ways far t need any more subtle than any human being can musterproblems. A glance, a tilt of the head or a flick of the tongue and the message is received and understood. Our older dog is known as Rosie Glare. I donHe particularly ''didn't know what the facial expression does to the younger '' need a young rescue dog, but it certainly puts me in my place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954803213<a Rottweiler/amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Turid Rugaas|title=What Do I Do When... My Dog Pulls?|rating=4.5|genre=Pets|summary=If you ask dog owners what problems they have with their pets you can be certain that some will come up time and time again. Failure to return when called is commonShepherd mix, who'd been living wild, as is intrusive barking but the one that comes up most often is the failure to walk properly on a lead. It might not seem to be a major problem if you have a small dog but for those of us contend with big dogs – I have two Rhodesian Ridgebacks – it can be 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 upset the fragile equilibrium of 75kg - and most of it is solid muscle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954803205</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rex Harper|title=An Eagle in the Airing Cupboard|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=We first met Rex Harper in [[An Otter on the Aga]] where life he told us of how he and lived with his wife, Julie worked first to help injured or abused animals and then founded their own animal sanctuaryon Bedlam Farm. It Frieda was a book of laughternear feral but devoted to her rescuer, sadness at the way that some people will treat animals Maria Wulf and gratitude that there are people like Rex and Julie it was Maria who devote their lives to the welfare of animals. At the end of ''Otter'' the sanctuary had been taken over by the RSPCA and ''An Eagle in the Airing Cupboard'' takes up where ''Otter'' finished and looks was at a year in the life of a warden.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755318021</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Linda Newbery and Catherine Rayner |title=Posy |rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I've got a new best friend. She's called Posy. Posy is a kitten and her fur is that wonderful mixture centre of black, brown and cream that we call tabbythis conundrum. Under her tummy, all four paws and her face look as though they've been dipped in a bowl of cream, which, knowing Posy, is quite possible. She's still finding out about Katz was spectacularly disconnected from the world, you see.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843629909</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Graeme Sims|title=The Dog Whisperer|rating=4.5|genre=Pets|summary=Graeme Sims is rightly proud of all that he's achieved in life. After a catastrophic business collapse (at the age of fifty) which - and Maria was none of his fault, he and his wife Maureen made the decision only person to move whom he seemed able to rural Devontalk, but on the eve of their departure he encountered a stray dog. Annie was to change his life in ways that connect with Maria he couldn't imagine. From being unemployable he was had to become a shepherd, presenter of demonstrations in a theme park and dog trainer. Graeme Sims had discovered that he was capable of communicating 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>