Dogs I Have Met: And the People They Found
10 best books like Dogs I Have Met: And the People They Found (Ken Foster): DogTown: Tales of Rescue, Rehabilitation, and Redemption, A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life, Shelter Dogs, Lost and Found: Dogs, Cats, and Everyday Heroes at a Country Animal Shelter, Shelter Dogs: Amazing Stories of Adopted Strays, Best Friends: The True Story of the World's Most Beloved Animal Sanctuary, Tales from a Dog Catcher, Dog Heroes of September 11th: A Tribute to America's Search and Rescue Dogs, One at a Time: A Week in an American Animal Shelter, One Dog at a Time: Saving the Strays of Helmand - An Inspiring True Story
| Author | Stefan Bechtel |
| ISBN | 1426205627 |
From Marley and Me to Temple Grandin’s groundbreaking books to Cesar Millan’s television show, America’s many millions of pet owners eagerly seek new insights into animal behavior, and one of the most popular sources of compelling stories and practical advice is DogTown, the National Geographic...
| Author | Steven Kotler |
| ISBN | 1608190021 |
Steven Kotler was forty years old and facing an existential crisis—which made him not too different from just about every other middle-aged guy in Los Angeles. Then he met Joy, a woman devoted to the cause of canine rescue. "Love me, love my dogs," was her rule, and not having any better ideas, Steven...
| Author | Traer Scott |
| ISBN | 1858943523 |
This is a wonderful photography book of dogs who've unfortunately found themselves inside of animal shelters. The expressions on their faces are more than merely cute, they're magical and seem to be able to silently speak a thousand words about their life and current predicament. I can't say enough...
Elizabeth Hess, a journalist and former art critic, walked into the Columbia Greene Animal Shelter in upstate New York looking for a new dog. Touched by the animals' plight and the dedication of the workers, she began to volunteer at the shelter on a regular basis. In Lost and Found, Hess brings you behind...
| Author | Peg Kehret |
| ISBN | 0807573361 |
Shelter Dogs is a wonderful collection of 8 different stories of dogs that were given up for adoption to an animal shelter. Many of these dogs were hard to place due to age, size, fear, or blindness. Each dog has a remarkable story of what became of them after they were finally taken to a new home.
My...
| Author | Samantha Glen |
| ISBN | 1575667355 |
"Sinjin the badly burned black cat. . .who survived to welcome others home Victor the abandoned Australian Shepherd mix. . . the capo among dogs Tyson and Tommy, two tiny black kittens. . .who had something to teach us all
Discover Best Friends A Place Where Every Animal Is Safe. . .Loved. . .And...
| Author | Lisa Duffy-Korpics |
| ISBN | 1599214989 |
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I received Tales from a Dog Catcher as part of a book giveaway from Goodreads. I had forgotten I'd requested it and, to be honest, had low expectations.
Tales from a Dog Catcher is a collection of essays recounting the author's experiences...
Dog Heroes of September 11th: A Tribute to America's Search and Rescue Dogs
| Author | Nona Kilgore Bauer |
| ISBN | 1593789998 |
I think I had tears in my eyes the whole way through. So many service dogs came to the rescue- not only searching for live victims, but also giving comfort to all the firemen, policemen, volunteers, clean up crews who worked tirelessly to find their colleagues and other people. The dogs recovered hundreds...
| Author | Diane Leigh |
| ISBN | 0972838708 |
"People sometimes ask, in light of the devastating and important issues that face us in our modern times, why the homeless animal issue is important, why we should be concerned about it...The homeless animal problem is a reflection of a society that has lost touch with other living beings, with the natural...
In a remote outpost of Now Zad, in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan, Pen Farthing and his troop of young Royal Marines survive frequent engagements with the Taliban and forge links with the local community. Pen's tour of duty will change his life forever, but for entirely unexpected reasons ...
Appalled...
| Author | Terri Crisp |
| ISBN | 0671522787 |
This is the one book that got me involved in animal rescue back in 1998 when I first read it. Written after the devastation of Hurricane Andrew in south Florida, it highlights the hard work and total frustration that animal rescue workers endure to try to save even one terrified animal left behind in the...
Just Gus: A Rescued Dog and the Woman He Loved
| Author | Laurie Williams |
| ISBN | 0975561812 |
Gus was a lucky dog. Injured and abandoned, he could have become another of the 7 million animals euthanized every year. Then Stephanie Williams entered the picture. A successful journalist, she had been diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer at the age of 30. On medical leave and living alone, she...
| Author | Melinda Roth |
| ISBN | 0312331045 |
Go to any unpopulated or abandoned area in any given urban setting, and you'll find them. Thousands and thousands of wild dogs-abandoned to disease, starvation, and inevitable death-are leading short and brutal lives in the no-man's-land between domestication and wildness, byproducts of the human...
| Author | Nicholas Dodman |
| ISBN | 0553375261 |
Do you have a problem pooch?
What do you do with a dog who attacks the telephone whenever it rings? Or one who chases imaginary rabbits down imaginary holes? Or one who is terrified of
microblinds...or turns into Cujo every time company arrives?
In this warm, compassionate,...
| Author | Jay Kopelman |
| ISBN | 1400138752 |
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
-E.B. White
This was an inspiring follow up to (From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava), tracing Jay Kopelman and his transplanted dog Lava’s transition back to civilian life in the US. Unlike the first...
| Author | Megan McMorris |
| ISBN | 1580051634 |
They may be known as man's best friend, but as the writers in this poignant, funny, and dramatic collection know, there's no gender divide when it comes to canines. Whether walking down the street, gathering at the dog park, hitting the open road, or spending one too many nights together on the couch in...
A Rare Breed of Love: The True Story of Baby and the Mission She Inspired to Help Dogs Everywhere
| Author | Jana Kohl |
| ISBN | 1416564039 |
When you meet Baby, the first thing you notice is her limp. She only has three legs, you see -- she lost one following years of mistreatment at a puppy mill. But spend a little more time with Baby and her irrepressible "Ma," Jana Kohl, and you'll hear the story of how this gentle creature has gone from puppy-mill...
| Author | The Bark |
| ISBN | 1400050537 |
Dogs have been our muses, our mentors, and our playful and noble co-pilots. They’ve had a profound influence on us as healers and spiritual guides, and also as co-workers, helping to guide, hunt, herd, search, and rescue. Our bond with dogs is deep and unbreakable, and there’s no better source a...
| Author | Jon Katz |
| ISBN | 0375760555 |
In an increasingly fragmented and disconnected society, dogs are often treated not as pets, but as family members and human surrogates. The New Work of Dogs profiles a dozen such relationships in a New Jersey town, like the story of Harry, a Welsh corgi who provides sustaining emotional strength for...
| Author | Stanley Coren |
| ISBN | 1439189218 |
"For Christmas the woman who would become my wife bought me a dog—a little terrier. The next year her Christmas gift to me was a shotgun. Most of the people in my family believe that those two gifts were not unrelated." So begins Born to Bark, the charming new memoir by psychologist and beloved dog...
| Author | Carol Bradley |
| ISBN | 0470447583 |
A compelling true story of one dog's rescue from a Pennsylvania puppy millThis touching narrative uses the poignant makeover of Gracie, a sickly Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, to tell the story of America's hidden puppy mills-commercial kennels that breed dogs in horrific living conditions and...
| Author | Glenn Plaskin |
| ISBN | 1599952548 |
For families and animal lovers everywhere, Katie Up and Down the Hall is the transcendent tale of how three generations of strangers and an astutely intelligent dog create their own little family in a waterside community along the Hudson River.
It all begins with a random meeting between a...
| Author | Bruce Goldstein |
| ISBN | 1568583842 |
To Bruce Goldstein-an edgy, twenty-something New Yorker trying to make his mark in advertising-just waking up in the morning was an ordeal. Underemployed and recently dumped, he was well into the downward spiral of bipolar disorder. Even with therapy, lithium, Paxil, Wellbutrin, and Prozac, he...
| Author | Steve Duno |
| ISBN | 0312600496 |
The moving story of the author’s adopted Rottweiler mix, Lou, a free-thinking heroic dog who changed his life forever Born of guard dogs on a secret marijuana farm in Mendicino County, Lou truly was one dog in a million. On the winter day that the ailing, tick-infested feral pup was rescued by...
| Author | Ted Kerasote |
| ISBN | 0547386087 |
Since the publication of the best-selling Merle’s Door, Ted Kerasote has received thousands of e-mails asking two questions: “Have you gotten another dog?” and “Are you writing a new book?” Pukka: The Pup After Merle answers both, in the most heartwarming way.
Told in Pukka’s...
