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[[Category:New Reviews|Pets]]==Pets==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malcolm Gladwell1780724047|title=The Big New Yorker Book A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs with Foreword|author=Peter J Conradi|rating=54

|summary=I think itstruggle to resist a book about dogs, but I did wonder why this one was so ''thin''s fair to say : given that youI're not even going to pick this book up unless you're ve never encountered a dog lover. If youwho wasn've always yearned for t interesting or important - and probably both, I was expecting a cat and shudder at the thought of early morning walks in the rain then this is definitely no the book for youmassive tome. But - if you know, or are known by a dog then it's the equivalent 'A Dictionary of that massive hamper Interesting and Important Dogs'' is actually ''a rich compendium of chocolate delights to a chocoholic. Only a magazine like the world's most significant and beloved dogs'New Yorker'and it' could raid its archives and produce such s certainly a massive compendium of humourrich treasure trove. We begin with Peter J Conradi's four collies: Cloudy, illustrations, essays, fiction, poems Sky. Bradley and cartoons about Max. They're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogs, or have a cast but what comes over is Conradi's love for each and every one of writers which could put many a bookshop to shamethem. I knew that I was in safe hands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>043402239X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Henley1787112926|title=One Dog Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too?|author=Catherine Pickles and His ManChantal Bourgonje|rating=45|genre=PetsFor Sharing|summary=Oberon is a Labrador with a pedigree as long as your arm When we [[Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend? by Catherine Pickles and ''One Dog and His Man'' is his story about what it's like living with the man Chantal Bourgonje|last met Worzel Woolface]] he generously refers to as ''The Boss'', about life in general and the ways of the worldwas a rather frightened dog who had difficulty meeting people. Think of him as the canine equivalent of the parliamentary sketch writer, there to highlight the idiosyncrasies of human life He's a bit better now and bring something which he really enjoys is going for a gentle humour to situations which might otherwise be taken far too seriouslywalk. Before you wonder how this is possible - how It's not just a dog can write case of attaching a book lead and heading for your favourite spot - let me remind you that dogs there are very intelligent animals. After all, dogs and their humans might go a lot of other things to what are laughingly called 'dog training classes', but it's the humans who are trained, not the dogsthink about first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471660354</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie CollinsHainsworth_Gina|title=Tricks and Games To Teach Your Dog: How Talking to Turn Your Much-Loved Pet into an Accomplished PerformerGina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth|rating=4.5|genre=PetsGraphic Novels|summary=Over ''This is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a lifetime dog – so drove the length of owning dogsthe country, Brighton to Grimsby, from the small to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and nippy Jack Russells to one working eye. Why not? The first night at home, Gina – the large dog – eats something she shouldn't and loving Rhodesian Ridgebackscauses a mess, Iso it've learned that s not a great start, but then begin the more you do tribulations of training, status and behaviour all humans must go through with your dog - the more you interact - the better your dog will betheir dogs. People say that theyAnd then, the life with Gina begins to feel like too much – ''re not great conversationalists (personally I'd disagree) but they have a tremendous willingness to please and they love to have fun with felt weird about you because youwere always there. Sophie Collins has put together a collections of tricks and games which My thoughts were taken over by you can teach your dog , and they range from the ''sitI felt sick, as if I was in love.'' Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, her husband, ''stay'' two children and ''down'' of basic training through two cats – gets to quite complicated tasks form the family they and agility trainingGina all would have wanted. There's something there for every size and every age.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005696</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill AbramsonIngram_Kammie|title=The Puppy Diaries: Living Conversations with a Dog Named Scout Kammie|author=Annie Ingram

|genre=PetsHumour|summary=Jill Abramson had It was something of a dog whom she adored 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 White West Highland by the name long time: dogs are perfectly capable of Buddy - communicating with humans and after his death she wasn't certain that she wanted another dognot just on a level of food! walk! or play!. Would she bond with the newcomer? Would she always You do require extensive training to become fluent, but most dogs will be comparing the pup with his predecessor? But - times change - perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and in 2009 Jill all you have to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and her husband Henry brought home a Golden Retriever by the name pair have allowed us to share some of Scout. Over the following year Abramson wrote a column about raising Scout for the New York Times website and it's this column which forms the basis for 'The Puppy Diaries: Living With a Dog Named Scout'their conversations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444720635</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon BarnesMattinson_Puppy|title=How to be a BAD BirdwatcherChoosing the Perfect Puppy|author=Pippa Mattinson

|summary=''Look out If you have ever, for even a fleeting moment, thought about getting a puppy, you really ought to read this book. Too many people are carried away in the heat of the window.moment and ''<br>must''See have a birdparticular breed and go ahead without any thought about the consequences. They then have to live with the problems which ''<br>might''Enjoy ithave been avoided for a decade or more. The puppy and the adult dog also has to live with an owner who might not be able to accommodate his needs.''<br>''Congratulations [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go-to author on matters dog related: she talks sense. You are now She doesn't try to talk you out of getting a birdwatcherparticular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the facts and allows you to make your own decisions.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780720866</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffrey MassonPickles_Worzel|title=Dogs Never Lie About Love: Why Your Dog Worzel says hello! Will Always Love You More Than Anyone Elseyou be my friend?|author=Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|rating=3.5

|summary=Readers come I'd like you to books for strange reasons meet Worzel, but I donyou't think that ll need to do exactly what I've ever before picked up say. Worzel is quite a bookbig dog, looked at the title and being intrigued not by what was suggested but by how anyone could think differently. that doesn'Dogs Never Lie About Lovet mean that he' is a statement of the obvious to mes fierce, or even very brave. IIn fact, he've lived with and around dogs for most of my life s frightened, and I know that dogs little as you are incapable , he's frightened of pretenceyou. I've never met a dog I couldn't trust: if it doesnHe't d like me, it will tell me so straight away. It will not attempt to trick me. I only wish meet you though: can you see that I could say nose just poking out from the same about most side of the humans I encountersofa? Now he's peering over the cushion - and finally, he's risking leaving that very safe place he's found, behind the sofa.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099740613</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Cavillinstagram_dogs|title=Canine PerspectivesDogs on Instagram|author=@dogsofinstagram|rating=3.5

|summary=David Cavill has spent much of his adult life around I'm a sucker for dogs, with : I can't walk past one in the Finnish Spitz holding street without stopping and having a special place in his heart. Amongst other things - he was founder of conversation, sometimes without bothering to speak to the Animal Care Collegeowners, worked as so a senior manager at Battersea Dogs' Homebook of pictures of dogs was going to be right up my street. The wildly popular @dogs_of_instagram, judging run by Ahmed El Shourbagy and advising on the selection, care his wife Ashley and training launched just four years ago gives us this book of over four hundred photographs of pedigree and mongrel dogs - he wrote a regular column for ''Our Dogs'' newspaper and ''Dogs Monthly''. ItOriginally I had no intention of reviewing it: in fact I wasn's these and t even intending to read the book, just to have a quick flick through, but within five minutes I was showing other articles which are reproduced here and as there's a time span people in the office the picture of fifteen years they allow the reader to see what has changed and - probably more importantly - what hasn'tWeimaraner riding a bicycle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468104780</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam HayPrendergast_Digger|title=Archie the Guide Dog Puppy: Hero in Training|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I don't often pick up a non-fiction book for the 7+ age group, find it riveting reading and informative about on a subject with which I'm already familiar, but that was the case with ''ArchieDigger: Hero in Training''. Archie is a puppy destined to be a guide dog for a blind person and he's just one story in a book about the pups-in-training, the working dogs, the adults who have guide dogs, or struggle to learn the techniques - or even what happens to the dogs who don't turn out to be what's needed. There's a full range as well as information about what a guide dog costs - and it's not cheap!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033053792X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Tricky Incident|author=Matt Whyman|title=Pig in the MiddleKate Prendergast|rating=4.5

|summary=I'm so pleased I read this bookgoing to tell you a story about Dog, Man, Lady and the Pup. It's only They all work on an industrial site - in fact, Dog and Man live there in a caravan and Man drives the occasional writer who grabs me sort of digger which is dreamed about by boys large and small. Lady and the short Pup run the snack bar and curlies with his observation of human natureone day as they're all having something to eat, the Pup goes missing. Man and Lady search everywhere but accomplished childrenit's Dog's writer Matt Whyman not only grabbed mesharp ears which finally track him down - caught in a branch over a fast-flowing stream. And it's Dog who works out how to rescue him. I needed 88 words to tell you that story, but sold me on the miniKate Prendergast does it without using a single one -pigs as welland she tells it in a far more engaging way than I could ever manage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444711466</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gordon GriceStrachan_50Cat|title=The Book of Deadly Animals|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Animals and humans have long mixed, even though the one has almost always proven capable of being lethal to the other. Many scientists in the past decided animals killing humans were aberrant, and that the real animal knew it was second best 50 Games to humans, having been saved in the Ark, and respected our dominion over them. Even now, it seems, there are opinions that creatures attacking mankind are somehow rogue and need destroying. But where is the wrong in an animal behaving as its nature compels it? Similarly, the human wandering around the wilderness, or even the idiot woman feeding a black bear her 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 can.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919675</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPlay With Your Cat|author=Tom Ryan|title=Following Atticus: How a little dog led one man on a journey of rediscovery to the top of the world Jackie Strachan|rating=45

|summary=Tom Ryan 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 middle-aged, stressed journalist, running his own newspaperpotential plaything. For cats, the ''Undertoad'' in Newburyport in Americadesire to play helps them to hone their hunting skills. His life is full of political intrigues and mayoral electionsFor cat owners, boardroom deals it provides an opportunity to bond with a much-loved pet and subterfuge create special moments that are entertaining to both cat and his life is full of challenges. He doesn't need a doghuman alike. He doesn't even particularly want a dogIf you are stuck for ideas for games to play with your cat, but when a miniature schnauzer enters his life one dayor would simply like to try something new, everything changesthen 50 Games To Play With Your Cat provides plenty of inspiration.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141048972</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Betty G BirneyLeask_Miracle|title=Humphrey's World of Pets|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Miracle: 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 on, and being duty-bound and beholden extraordinary dog that refused 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>}} {{newreviewdie|author=Tom Cox|title=Talk to the Tail: Adventures in Cat Ownership and BeyondAmanda Leask

|summary=Are you Amanda Leask has been obsessed with dogs all her life and it's been an obsession which needs the world and a cat person weaned on [[Dewey: The True Story 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|Dewey the library cat]], or Marilyn Edwards' rural tales or Doreen Toveyobstacles: she's precious Siamese stories? Do you enjoy cosy, slightly twee reminiscences of much loved felines? If so, look away now… 'Talk simply determined to do all that she possibly can to make the Tail' is that rare bird: world a cat eulogy written by a manbetter place for dogs. As such it features rather more incidents involving fights, bottom washingAmanda lives with her husband Tobias, urine stained rugs son Kyle and feline sexual exploits more than your average book about catstwenty rescue and sled dogs near Inverness. O.KVery nice, you're probably thinking. IWouldn'm exaggerating slightly, but reader be warned; the mad cat man is t we all like to have that sort of lifestyle? But hold on a different beast to the mad cat woman. It's less furry babies and more furry nightmaresminute.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184737817X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denis O'ConnorPrendergast_Train|title=Paw Tracks at Owl CottageDog on a Train: The Special Delivery|author=Kate Prendergast|rating=3.5

|summary=It'Paw Tracks s one of those mornings for Boy: late out of bed he grabs at Owl Cottage' is his hat and hurtles out of the story of four pedigree Maine Coon cats which house to catch his train - only he drops his hat as he goes through the author door and Dog chases after him with the hat in his wife acquired after moving back mouth. They head to a cottage where they had previously lived. This is the sequel tube station (Dog doesn't forget to a volume called 'Paw Tracks 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 Moonlightescalator. He misses Boy', which I have not read, s train and which features their first cat Toby Jug. Apparentlyhas to wait for the next one, on but remembers his demise, they had sold the cottage; but now, a little more advanced in years, they buy it again, and do extensive renovations before deciding manners well enough to stand up so that it's ready for another catan old lady can have his seat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849016402</amazonuk>Will he catch up with boy when he reaches London Kings Cross?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Megan RixMattinson_Labrador|title=The Puppy That Came For Christmas Labrador Handbook: The definitive guide to training and Stayed Forevercaring for your Labrador|author=Pippa Mattinson|rating=4.5

|summary=Megan Rix and husband Ian took on two massive challenges at the same time. Their failure to conceive a child became something In 2014 about 16% of an issue all pedigree puppies registered with Megan being, as she herself said 'north of forty'. Time was passing quickly and it looked as though IVF was the only option if they Kennel Club were to have the longLabradors -for child. Itand that's time-consuming and traumaticwith over 200 breeds to choose from. At They're one of the same time most respected breeds and with good reason - great as gundogs, brilliant in the couple became involved with show ring and a charity which provides helper dogs for people with disabilitieswonderful part of the family to boot. Puppies come to Author Pippa Mattinson is a family for six months to do their basic training zoologist and then move onfounder of The Gundog Trust. And that was how EmmaShe supports modern, a soft, sweetscience-based dog training methods -natured, adorable puppy came into but her passion is about helping people to enjoy their livesdogs. PredictablyIf you're looking for advice about Labradors, they fell in love with hershe is going to be difficult to better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951062</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vicki Myron and Brett WitterPerris_Dogs|title=Dewey's Nine LivesBeautiful Dogs Postcard Book: The Legacy 30 Postcards of the Small-town Library Cat Who Inspired MillionsChampion Breeds to Keep or Send|author=Andrew Perris

|summary=Having read [[Dewey: The True Story of If you're looking for a present for a World-famous Library Cat by Vicki Myron and Brett Witter|Dewey: The Small-town Library-cat Who Touched dog lover, Beautiful Dogs might fit the World]] and having thoroughly enjoyed reading about that delightful catbill. It's escapades a book of thirty postcards, which you can either send or keep in Spencer Library, I was intrigued the book. You might expect to discover that find the authormore usual breeds - Labradors, Vicki MyronRetrievers and the like - but instead, had written a follow up book entitled Deweyyou's Nine Lives. At first I thought this might hold many ll find more stories about Dewey but it turned out that this was a collection of short stories each featuring a different exceptional cat. All of their owners had been so moved after reading about Dewey that they felt compelled to contact Vicki exotic breeds such as the Bedlington Terrier and share their storiesthe Bolognese. DeweyThere's Nine Lives is a tribute just the one dog or bitch on each card and Andrew Perris has managed to give us an excellent view of the animal whilst allowing it to cats and their owners everywherelook completely natural.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847378560</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judith SummersLaks_Gentle|title=The Badness of King George|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=People know how to get round meMy Gentle Barn: they offer me a book where animals heal and then say 'It's about a dog' and like Pavlov's canine I say 'Oh, lovely'. And so it was with The Badness of King George. George is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and I have children learn to quibble with the title – superb as it is – because George is not bad. If anything he's badly done by as Judith Summers, plagued by empty nest syndrome when her son goes to university, decides to foster rescue dogs. Poor George has absolutely no idea what she's let him in for. And nor has Judith.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141046473</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewhope|author=Axel Scheffler|title=How to Keep a Pet SquirrelEllie Laks|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 guide to obtaining 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>}} {{newreview|author=Steve Duno|title=Last Dog On The Hill|rating=5

|summary=Driving through northern California Steve Duno found As a puppy by child, Ellie Laks was abused, but not only did she suffer at the side hands of the roadher abuser, she also had to endure parental indifference to what was happening to her. He was fleaHer only relief came through animals -bitten, tic infested, emaciated and suffering even then she had to cope when the animals were taken from her. As an infection. His father was adult, she discovered that she had a Rottweiler and his mother a German Shepherd real talent for healing animals - both were guard dogs at the local marijuana farm. When Steve whistled the dog came to him and it's no exaggeration that they helped her to say that in that moment his life changedheal too. He'd always wanted In a dogbrilliant leap of intuition, but hadn't been able she realised that if the animals could help her to have one heal they could do the same for others and so the Gentle Barn was born - a place where animals were brought as a child. There was a moment's indecision at the side place of the road – safety and where disadvantaged children and then Lou became Steve's dogspecial needs groups could use as therapy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330520024</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Finden and Linda Watson-BrownMattinson_Happy|title=Casper the Commuting CatThe Happy Puppy Handbook: The True Story of the Cat Who Rode the Bus Your Definitive Guide to Puppy Care and Stole Our Hearts|rating=4|genre=Pets|summary=In 2009 as Susan Finden set out to catch the bus from the bus stop opposite her house in Plymouth she noticed her cat Casper watching her. Afraid he would follow her across the busy road she urged the bus driver to move off quickly. But when the bus driver told her that ''the only thing you've got to worry about is that you're sitting in his seat,'' Susan finally had the answer to where Casper disappeared to each day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857200089</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewEarly Training|author=Anne Fine and Ruth Brown|title=RugglesPippa Mattinson

|summary=I've long been aware that our two dogs have methods Unfortunately far too many people acquire puppies because of communication which are far more subtle than anything a mere human can musterthe aww... factor. They sense exactly how we look gorgeous, cuddly, cute - rather like an animated soft toy - and there are feeling – people who have to have one. Now. The reality is that bringing a slight change in puppy into your home - into your life - requires about the atmosphere same level of planning as moving home and they will be alert. The reactions the best guide which I've seen to preparing for a frown or a smile, laughter or tears are all different puppy and they're capable the early stages of communicating living with us one is Pippa Mattinson's The Happy Puppy Handbook. Do get it well in ways which have no need of wordsadvance. For If you're only thinking about getting a while I thought puppy it might even put you off - but then it was our dogs who were special (will be well, ''obviously'' they are…) but I've noticed other dogs communicating with each other worth the cover price if it saves you a great deal of expense and with humans and the more that I see the even more that I wonder why they are referred to as 'dumb animals'heartache.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184737347X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick WadleyRosenfelt_Puppy|title=Man + DogThe Puppy Express: On the road with 25 rescue dogs . . . what could go wrong?|author=David Rosenfelt

|summary=I have two big dogs. TheyIf you're Rhodesian Ridgebacks – quietmoving home from Southern California with twenty-five rescue dogs how, exactly, well-behaved and friendly do you do it? Add in that these are mostly elderly dogs – and they're family. Iwho've no wish to put them already had too much change and trauma in kennels so their lives and it's obvious that I can go on holiday any more than most families would want to put the children in kennels for crating them and flying them across the same purpose. But finding somewhere which doesncountry isn't just tolerate my dogs but actively makes them welcome is not easygoing to work. IThey couldn've found hotels which say t all go together and the trip would take about twenty-four hours with all the changes - and that'Dogs Welcome' but when s before 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 chargeeven begin to think about the prohibitive cost. That's why this book is such In the end, the answer was a reliefconvoy of three motorhomes, the addition of nine helpers and just about non-stop driving across the continent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956045928</amazonuk>Fun, eh?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma DoddMorris_Iamcat|title=I Don't Want A Cool am Cat(mini edition)|author=Jackie Morris

|summary=As You're always supposed to tell when a reviewer I see a lot of books dog is dreaming – the twitching limbs and whilst I read I'm usually wondering about who I'll pass jerking joints allegedly proving the book sleeping Fido is imagining himself on to when I've finished the reviewchase. Will it be Cats are, as always, a friendbit more secretive, but Jackie Morris offers evidence here that they are more or less thinking the same thing – even the local library domestic moggy, curled up and closed in, is picturing a different self – one sleeking through snows, relaxing on the savannah or one of our schools? alertly moving through its territory. It's a part very pleasant view into the mindset of my reviewing process to think about where the book will sit most happily. With ''Old Dogs'' I was only a few pages in before I was considering whether it should live on my bedside table or in the main bookshelves. The bedside table won. Easilycats.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1416534997</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew ColeKatz_Dog|title=Will Work for Nuts|rating=3.5|genre=Pets|summary=The intrepid adventurer faces a most daunting challenge. Girding his loins in anticipation of achieving his goal, he leaps into action, hell-bent only on success, never fearing the inherent danger. With death-defying stunts and leaps aplenty, he needs to use any vehicles he finds in his path, untold balancing skills, nerve-racking whippy plastic stick things, and an awful lot more. Finally his lithe, muscular frame lands near his target, and he sits back and eats his nuts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007279574</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDog Nobody Loved|author=Eric Nakagawa|title=I Can Has Cheezburger Jon Katz

|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'I Can Has Cheezburgert need any more problems. He particularly ''didn't''need a young rescue dog, is a clever and witty anthology of some of the best pictures and captions from the fantastic [http:Rottweiler//icanhascheezburger.com/ lolcats website] of the same name. The site has Shepherd mix, who'd been growing in popularity in recent monthsliving wild, to contend with and so it was inevitable that a book would soon hit the shelves. Choosing which pics to include in upset the book could not have been an easy task, and some fragile equilibrium 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've long been aware that my two Rhodesian Ridgebacks can communicate life he lived with each other in ways far more subtle than any human being can musterhis animals on Bedlam Farm. A glanceFrieda was near feral but devoted to her rescuer, a tilt of Maria Wulf and it was Maria who was at the head or a flick centre of this conundrum. Katz was spectacularly disconnected from the tongue world - and Maria was the message is received and understood. Our older dog is known as Rosie Glare. I don't know what the facial expression does only person to whom he seemed able to the younger dogtalk, but it certainly puts me in my placeto connect with Maria he had to connect with Frieda too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954803213</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Turid RugaasCoren_Dogs|title=What Do I Do When... My Dogs Dream?: Nearly Everything Your Dog Pulls?Wants You to Know|author=Stanley Coren

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