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April is Pet First Aid Awareness Month |
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VETERINARY CARE AND HEALTH |
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by Bruce Fogle presents the history, grooming, training, and showing of canines while emphasizing basic nursing, first aid, and breeding. ANF 636.7 F656 |
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by Bruce R. Coston
A small-town veterinarian shares some of the more colorful and poignant cases of his career with animals and their owners. ANF 636.089 C842 |
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by Nick Trout
An insider's perspective on twenty-four hours in his career as a veterinary surgeon offers engaging anecdotes about pets and their owners and the unique blend of cutting-edge technology, old-fashioned instinct, and caring that comprise veterinary medicine today. |
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by Cynthia M. Kahn
Combines the expertise of more than two hundred veterinary specialists, in an in-depth reference for pet owners that addresses a full spectrum of caregiver concerns for dogs, cats, and exotics. |
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by David Alderton
An essential family reference guide to caring for the most popular pets and breeds, including small mammals, birds, and more. |
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by Louise Murray
A comprehensive guide to quality health care for pets covers everything pet owners need to know about their pets' health. Practical advice on how to select the right veterinary care, how to evaluate a veterinary practice, how to cope with health care costs, pet insurance, and more. |
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by Marty Becker
Offers a thorough overview of getting and caring for a canine companion, including finding the right dog for one's family, treating health issues, solving behavioral problems, saving money on dog products and much more. |
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by Mary R. Burch
Learn about the ten test items of the CGC (Canine good citizen) test and how to teach your dog the skills needed to pass them; accepting a friendly stranger; sitting politely for petting; appearance and grooming; walking on a loose leash; walking through a crowd; sit and down on command and staying in place; coming when called; reaction to another dog or distractions; supervised separation. |
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by Debra Horwitz
A team of top researchers, scientists and veterinarians offer this definitive guide to canine behavior, explaining the most effective training methods and offering advice on socialization, housetraining, diet and exercise and how to resolve a variety of behavioral problems. |
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by John Bradshaw
A renowned anthrozoologist shows how humans can live in harmony with their canine friends, explaining why positive reinforcement is a more effective way to control behavior and how to weigh a dog's unique personality against the stereotypes of its breed. |
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by Brian Hare
Reveals how canine pets have significantly higher levels of intelligence than previously believed, demonstrating how domestication has rendered dogs friendlier and better able to communicate and problem-solve. |
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by Sarah Hodgson
A fun, friendly guide to smoothly integrating a puppy into your life and home describes popular breeds of dogs and includes advice on training, socialization, housebreaking, health care, nutrition and exercise. |
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by Victoria Stilwell
The host of Animal Planet's It's Me or the Dog helps explain what your dog is truly thinking and saying based on the latest research on canine language and behavior and provides training tips for changing your pet's problem behavior.
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by Kate Perry
An animal behavior expert helps dog owners develop a personalized training system to solve particular canine problems, from housebreaking to socialization, based on their dog's unique personality traits and to ultimately create a fun, loving and respectful atmosphere based on trust. |
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by Cat Warren
The author presents a firsthand exploration into the world of working dogs, as well as canine intelligence and training, as she and her German shepherd, Solo, work with forensic anthropologists, detectives and dog handlers to find the bodies of the missing. |
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THE BOND BETWEEN PETS AND PEOPLE |
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by Jessica Vogelsang
In a moving memoir, a veterinarian, mother, and big-time dog person, shares how she, with the help of three dogs, makes it through adolescence, veterinary school and the early years of motherhood, learning valuable lessons in empathy and understanding along the way. |
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by Dean R. Koontz
The best-selling suspense author presents a tribute to his late golden retriever. He describes his family's adoption of a retired service animal, the numerous lessons he learned throughout their relationship, and the family's grief upon her passing. |
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by Jack Canfield
A collection of inspirational wisdom for cat and dog lovers presents a series of poignant, lovingly told anecdotes guaranteed to warm the heart of any pet owner. |
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by David DiBenedetto
Inspired by "Garden & Gun" magazine's popular "Good Dog" column, a collection of true stories celebrating the unique relationship between humans and their canine companions includes contributions by Jon Meacham, Roy Blount Jr., Dominique Browning, and P.J. O'Rourke. |
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by Donald McCaig
After 25 years raising sheepdogs (and writing eloquently about dogs), McCaig and his family decide to participate in the World Sheepdog Trials. In Wales. Getting there is half the fun. |
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by Robert Weintraub
Describes the story of the unbreakable bond that developed between a Royal Air Force technician and a fiercely loyal purebred pointer named Judy, who met in an internment camp during World War II, where the pair became a symbol of hope to the other prisoners.
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by Vint Virga
A distinguished veterinarian and animal behaviorist outlines a series of case studies with domestic and exotic animals that demonstrate how perceiving the world from the perspectives of animals can enrich human appreciation for life, improve relationships and reorder personal values. |
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by Gary Kurz
.After the intense, unexpected grief he experienced following the loss of his own companions, animal lover and biblical scholar Gary Kurz set out to prove that there are indeed pets in Paradise.
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by Moira Anderson Allen
A book dealing with grief due to pet loss, plus a chapter on how to find a lost pet. |
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by Jon Katz
An uplifting meditation on coping with the loss of an animal who has enriched one's life, sharing observations on such topics as the ways in which people grieve for their pets, related philosophical questions and the process of letting go. |
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by Wallace Sife
A cherished pet gives you boundless, unconditional love and occupies a special place in your routine, your home, and your heart. When your pet dies, that warm, special place becomes a sad, empty space. This book helps you understand. |
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by Mary Oliver
Celebrates the canine companions who have enriched (Oliver's) world, exploring how they have accompanied her walks, inspired her work and served as life guides. |
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by Sue Halpern
Traces the story of a layabout Labradoodle-turned-therapy dog and his purpose-seeking owner, who pursued certification and delightedly discovered the pint-sized pooch's talents at a public nursing home, where residents benefited from warm and whimsical shared encounters. |
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by Carmela Ciuraru
A collection of poetic works pays tribute to the canine companion and includes such pieces as Margaret Cavendish's barking chorus of hunting beagles and Jane Kenyon's verse on her grinning and nuzzling dog on a drizzly afternoon. |
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by Dave Barry
Barry shows how to age gracefully, taking cues from his beloved and highly intelligent dog, Lucy. |
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by David Rosenfelt
A couple encounters unanticipated challenges while transporting more than two dozen rescue dogs from southern California to their new home in Maine. |
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by Maya Gottfried
Sixteen masterfully expressive portraits of dogs are combined with sixteen enchanting poems, each providing the unique personality of a dog that begs to be patted, tickled, scratched, or ruffled, but most of all, to be your friend. |
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by Patricia MacLachlan
As though written from a dog's point-of-view, dogs of all shapes, sizes, and ages explain what it is like to be a canine, how they see things around them, why they do what they do, and how they feel about the world in which they live in general through accessible verse, enhanced with full-color illustrations. |
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by Amy Hempel
An entertaining anthology of poetry, written from the canine point of view, encompasses the contributions of William Wegman, Rick Bass, Susan Minot, Edward Albee, John Irving, Cynthia Heimel, Thom Gunn, and other notable writers. |
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