One at a Time: A Week in an American Animal Shelter
10 best books like One at a Time: A Week in an American Animal Shelter (Diane Leigh): DogTown: Tales of Rescue, Rehabilitation, and Redemption, 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, No Dogs in Heaven?: Scenes from the Life of a Country Veterinarian, The Social Lives of Dogs: The Grace of Canine Company, Dogs I Have Met: And the People They Found
| 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 | 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 | Robert T. Sharp |
| ISBN | 0786715243 |
For the millions of animal enthusiasts in America, here's a heartwarming collection of tales by veterinarian Robert Sharp that relate the joys and misadventures of being an animal doctor in small-town U.S.A. With humor and compassion, No Dogs in Heaven? portrays the great and not-so-great characteristics...
| Author | Elizabeth Marshall Thomas |
| ISBN | 0743422368 |
In this sequel to her illuminating bestseller The Hidden Life of Dogs, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas profiles the canines in her own household to show how dogs have comfortably adapted to life with their human owners -- and with each other. A classically trained anthropologist, she answers questions...
| Author | Ken Foster |
| ISBN | 1599211297 |
Ken Foster knows that a dog can change a person's life. And that several dogs can change even more. For The Dogs Who Found Me, the author appeared in major media interviews such as NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and received hundreds of letters and stories about other karmic canine rescues. Many of these...
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...
| Author | Cathy Scott |
| ISBN | 0470228512 |
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, many animals had to fend for themselves because their owners lost them or were unable to care for them. In Pawprints of Katrina: Pets Saved and Lessons Learned, Cathy Scott documents her experience working with the Best Friends Animal Society triage center to...
| Author | Nathan J. Winograd |
| ISBN | 0979074304 |
This book was ridiculous. This is a book to make the public feel better by blaming someone else. His entire premise was that shelter workers want to kill animals. Don't feel bad about getting rid of your pet, it's not your fault if he has to be put down, it's those unscrupulous shelter workers! Working in...
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...
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 | Emily Yoffe |
| ISBN | 1582345651 |
"The best dog books are as much about people as they are about dogs, and What the Dog Did is one of the best."—Jon Katz, author of The Dogs of Bedlam Farm
Dave Barry meets The Secret Lives of Dogs in Emily Yoffe's funny and insightful look at all things canine. Filled with adventures of heroic dogs,...
| Author | Meg Daley Olmert |
| ISBN | 0306817365 |
Nothing turns a baby's head more quickly than the sight or sound of an animal. This fascination is driven by the ancient chemical forces that first drew humans and animals together. It is also the same biology that transformed wolves into dogs and skittish horses into valiant comrades that would carry...
Blind Hope: An Unwanted Dog and the Woman She Rescued
| Author | Kim Meeder |
| ISBN | 1601422806 |
An unwanted dog. An emotional rescue.
Two lives forever changed.
Laurie's dreams had been shattered before she came to work at Crystal Peaks Youth Ranch—the ranch of rescued dreams—where broken horses and broken children encounter healing every day. In an attempt to soothe...
| 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 | Dana Jennings |
| ISBN | 0385532830 |
A must-read for every dog lover—a short, tender, and uplifting tale of a cancer survivor and the life lessons shared with him by his beloved family dog.
Our dogs come into our lives as “just the family pet,” but before we know it they become drinking buddies and fuzzy shrinks, playmates...
| Author | Sharon Sakson |
| ISBN | 1593500386 |
Being a dog lover, I'm already very familiar with the emotional upside of being around dogs, but this book took it a step further by suggesting that the ancient relationship between man and dog is evolving beyond companionship and emotional well-being.
As a former puppy-raiser for guide dogs,...
