One Nation Under Dog: Adventures in the New World of Prozac-Popping Puppies, Dog-Park Politics, and Organic Pet Food
10 best books like One Nation Under Dog: Adventures in the New World of Prozac-Popping Puppies, Dog-Park Politics, and Organic Pet Food (Michael Schaffer): DogTown: Tales of Rescue, Rehabilitation, and Redemption, Dog Heroes of September 11th: A Tribute to America's Search and Rescue Dogs, Dogs I Have Met: And the People They Found, Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior Evolution, The Dog Who Loved Too Much: Tales, Treatments and the Psychology of Dogs, The Modern Dog: How Dogs Fit into Our Society, Culture, and Our Personal and Emotional Lives, Show Dog: The Charmed Life and Trying Times of a Near-Perfect Purebred, From Baghdad to America: Life Lessons from a Dog Named Lava, Schemers, Dog, Inc.: The Uncanny Inside Story of Cloning Man's Best Friend
| 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...
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 | 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...
Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior Evolution
| Author | Raymond Coppinger |
| ISBN | 0684855305 |
Marking the first time that dogs have been explained in such detail by eminent researchers, "Dogs" is a work of wide appeal, as absorbing as it is enlightening. Drawing on insight gleaned from forty-five years of raising, training, and studying the behaviors of dogs worldwide, Lorna and Raymond Coppinger...
| 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,...
The Modern Dog: How Dogs Fit into Our Society, Culture, and Our Personal and Emotional Lives
| Author | Stanley Coren |
| ISBN | 1416593683 |
Dogs are invented creatures -- invented by humans, who have been shaping the lives of these four-legged companions for more than 14,000 years. However, we often forget that, just as dogs live in our world, we live in theirs. "The Modern Dog" is a look at our coevolution, interpreting both canine and human...
This is a great book for anyone entertaining the idea of showing their dog and has very, very deep pockets. Having grown up spending just about every bloody weekend at a dog show from infancy to about age 12 - (my father bred herding/working dogs)...well let's just say this book offers the insight, costs,...
| 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 | Bill Pronzini |
| ISBN | 0765318199 |
A new Nameless Detective story from the 2008 Mystery Writers of America Grand Master...
A locked room mystery that goes from stolen books to stolen lives and the hunt for a phantom stalker with a penchant for pouring acid to make his point give Nameless and his partner Jake more than enough work to earn...
Dog, Inc.: The Uncanny Inside Story of Cloning Man's Best Friend
| Author | John Woestendiek |
| ISBN | 1583333916 |
What Stiff did for the dead and Fast Food Nation did for the burger, Dog, Inc. does for the stranger-than-fiction world of commercial dog cloning.
It all began with a pit bull named Booger. Former Miss Wyoming Bernann McKinney was so distraught over the death of her dog, whom she regarded as her...
| 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...
| Author | Ceiridwen Terrill |
| ISBN | 1451634811 |
Part Wild is the unforgettable story of Ceiridwen Terrill's journey with a creature whose heart is divided between her bond to one woman and her need to roam free. When Terrill adopts a wolfdog—part husky, part gray wolf—named Inyo to be her protector and fellow traveler, she is drawn to Inyo’s...
| Author | Jon Katz |
| ISBN | 0812974344 |
In a nation where our love of dogs keeps growing and dog ownership has reached an all-time high, confusion about dogs and their behavioral problems is skyrocketing. Many dogs are out of control, untrained, chewing up furniture, taking medication for anxiety, and biting millions of people a year.
Now,...
| Author | Jon Franklin |
| ISBN | 0805090770 |
A man and puppy exhumed from a 12,000-year-old grave sends a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer on a journey to the dogs
Of all the things hidden in plain sight, dogs are one of the most enigmatic. They are everywhere but how much do we really know about where they came from and what...
| Author | Allegra Huston |
| ISBN | 1416551573 |
When Allegra Huston was four years old, her mother was killed in a car crash. Soon afterward, she was introduced to an intimidating man wreathed in cigar smoke -- the legendary film director John Huston -- with the words, "This is your father." So began an extraordinary odyssey: from the magical Huston...
| Author | Jan Fennell |
| ISBN | 0060089466 |
In The Dog Listener Jan Fennell shares her revolutionary insight into the canine world and its instinctive language that has enabled her to bring even the most delinquent of dogs to heel. This easy-to-follow guide draws on Jan's countless case histories of problem dogs—from biters and barkers to...
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...
