Pukka's Promise: The Quest for Longer-Lived Dogs

10 best books like Pukka's Promise: The Quest for Longer-Lived Dogs (Ted Kerasote): Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs, The Possibility Dogs: What a Handful of "Unadoptables" Taught Me About Service, Hope, and Healing, Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet, Dog Heroes of September 11th: A Tribute to America's Search and Rescue Dogs, How to Behave So Your Dog Behaves, Decoding Your Dog: The Ultimate Experts Explain Common Dog Behaviors and Reveal How to Prevent or Change Unwanted Ones, What the Dog Knows: The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs, Out of Harm's Way, Mine!: A Practical Guide to Resource Guarding in Dogs, Reaching the Animal Mind: Clicker Training and What It Teaches Us About All Animals

AuthorCaroline Knapp
ISBN0385317018
At the age of 36, Caroline Knapp, author of the acclaimed bestseller Drinking: A Love Story, found herself confronted with a monumental task: redefining her world.

She had faced the loss of both her parents, given up a twenty-year relationship with alcohol, and, as she writes, "I was wandering...
AuthorSusannah Charleson
An inspiring story that shows how dogs can be rescued, and can rescue in return.

With her critically acclaimed, bestselling first book, Scent of the Missing, Susannah Charleson was widely praised for her unique insight into the kinship between humans and dogs, as revealed through her work...
AuthorJohn Bradshaw
ISBN1452652031
Dogs have been mankind's faithful companions for tens of thousands of years, yet today they are regularly treated as either pack-following wolves or furry humans. The truth is, dogs are neither—and our misunderstanding has put them in serious crisis.

What dogs really need is a spokesperson,...
Dog Heroes of September 11th: A Tribute to America's Search and Rescue Dogs
AuthorNona Kilgore Bauer
ISBN1593789998
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...
AuthorSophia Yin
ISBN0793806445
How to Behave So Your Dog Behaves takes a scientifically sound yet practical approach to explaining dog behavior and training theory, and then shows you how to apply these concepts so you can train your dog to be well behaved. Written by one of the leading veterinary behaviorists in the country, this...
AuthorAmerican College of Veterinary Behaviorists
ISBN0547738919
More than ninety percent of dog owners consider their pets to be members of their family. But often, despite our best intentions, we are letting our dogs down by not giving them the guidance and direction they need. Unwanted behavior is the number-one reason dogs are relinquished to shelters...
AuthorCat Warren
ISBN1451667310
A firsthand exploration of the fascinating world of “working dogs”—who seek out missing persons, sniff for explosives in war zones, and locate long-dead remains—through the experiences of a journalist and her canine companion, an incorrigible pup named Solo.

Cat Warren is a university...
AuthorTerri Crisp
ISBN0671522787
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...
AuthorJean Donaldson
ISBN0970562942
This is an excellent consise book describing what resource guarding (RG) is and the myths and fallacies around it. This is a great resource for a person looking to have a deep understanding of RG and an appreciation for the many steps involved in helping the dog and the human find a safe way to live with it....
AuthorKaren Pryor
ISBN0743297768
From the founder of “clicker” training, the widely praised humane approach to shaping animal behavior, comes a fascinating book—part memoir, part insight into how animals and people think and behave.

A celebrated pioneer in the field of no-punishment animal training, Karen Pryor...
AuthorSuzanne Clothier
Akin to Monty Roberts's The Man Who Listens to Horses and going light-years beyond The Hidden Life of Dogs, this extraordinary book takes a radical new direction in understanding our life with canines and offers us astonishing new lessons about our pets. From changing the misbehaviors and habits that...
AuthorJay Kopelman
ISBN1400138752
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...
AuthorJon Katz
ISBN0375760555
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...
AuthorPatricia B. McConnell
ISBN1891767143
Excellent overview of what goes into adopting a rescue dog.

Such a helpful Book. The authors give us a really solid introduction to the many things involved when bringing a rescue dog home, everything from house training to dealing with fears. Even though they tackle some really serious issues,...
AuthorStanley Coren
ISBN1439189218

"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...
AuthorJohn W. Pilley
ISBN0544102576
A New York Times Bestseller

The amazing story of a very smart Border collie who is redefining animal intelligence.

Chaser has a way with words. She knows over a thousand of them—more than any other animal of any species except humans. In addition to common nouns like house, ball,...
Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain
AuthorMartha Sherrill
ISBN1594201242
How one man's consuming passion for dogs saved a legendary breed from extinction and led him to a difficult, more soulful way of life in the wilds of Japan's remote snow country

As Dog Man opens, Martha Sherrill brings us to a world that Americans know very little about-the snow country of Japan...
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