The Possibility Dogs: What a Handful of "Unadoptables" Taught Me About Service, Hope, and Healing
10 best books like The Possibility Dogs: What a Handful of "Unadoptables" Taught Me About Service, Hope, and Healing (Susannah Charleson): For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend, A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher, Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet, No Buddy Left Behind: Bringing U.S. Troops' Dogs and Cats Safely Home from the Combat Zone, How to Behave So Your Dog Behaves, Pukka's Promise: The Quest for Longer-Lived Dogs, 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, One Dog at a Time: Saving the Strays of Helmand - An Inspiring True Story, Lucky Dog: How Being a Veterinarian Saved My Life
| Author | Patricia B. McConnell |
| ISBN | 0345477146 |
The last book I read by her was all about communicating with your dog, with much emphasis on how humans act around dogs and why some of what we do is just plain wrong. The subject of this book was dogs and emotion.
There has been a lot of debate over the years as to whether or not dogs (and other non-human...
| Author | Sue Halpern |
| ISBN | 1594487200 |
A layabout mutt turned therapy dog leads her owner to a new understanding of the good life.
At loose ends with her daughter leaving home and her husband on the road, Sue Halpern decided to give herself and Pransky, her under-occupied Labradoodle, a new leash—er, lease—on life by getting...
| Author | John Bradshaw |
| ISBN | 1452652031 |
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,...
| Author | Terri Crisp |
| ISBN | 0762773863 |
"No Buddy Left Behind: Bringing U.S. Troops' Dogs and Cats Safely Home from the Combat Zone", was such a wonderful audio book experience. Pet lovers everywhere will be able to relate to the lost, lonely, empty feeling that most likely would hit us if we had to leave the country and also leave behind our...
| Author | Sophia Yin |
| ISBN | 0793806445 |
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...
| Author | Ted Kerasote |
| ISBN | 1469258773 |
When Ted Kerasote was ready for a new dog after losing his beloved Merle — who died too soon, as all our dogs do — he knew that he would want to give his puppy Pukka the longest life possible. But how to do that? So much has changed in the way we feed, vaccinate, train, and live with our dogs from even a decade...
| Author | American College of Veterinary Behaviorists |
| ISBN | 0547738919 |
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...
| Author | Cat Warren |
| ISBN | 1451667310 |
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...
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 | Sarah Boston |
| ISBN | 1770893512 |
What happens when a veterinary surgical oncologist (laymen’s term: cancer surgery doctor) thinks she has cancer herself? Enter Sarah Boston: a vet who suspects a suspicious growth in her neck is thyroid cancer. From the moment she uses her husband’s portable ultrasound machine to investigate...
| Author | Leslie McDevitt |
| ISBN | 7818926941 |
I loved this book. The whole book is about reframing how you work with your dog, specifically in agility classes.
I have started using some of her techniques with my distracted, reactive dog and after a few days of me focusing on connecting with him and raising my rate of reinforcement there is...
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...
| Author | Nick Trout |
| ISBN | 0767931971 |
A book guaranteed to touch anyone who has ever had a beloved pet…
From instant New York Times bestseller, Dr. Nick Trout comes another touching and heartfelt story from the front lines of veterinary medicine—the story of two dogs who forever changed the way he thought about...
| Author | Jennifer Arnold |
| ISBN | 1400068886 |
A stirring, inspiring book with the power to change the way we understand and communicate with our dogs.
Few people are more qualified to speak about the abilities and potential of dogs than Jennifer Arnold, who for the past twenty years has trained service dogs for people with physical disabilities...
| 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 | Jim Gorant |
| ISBN | 1592407315 |
The author of the New York Times bestseller The Lost Dogs shares the heartwarming tale of one plucky, unwanted pit bull who achieved international celebrity.
Today, Wallace is a champion. But in the summer of 2005, he was living in a shelter, a refugee from a suspicious pit bull–breeding...
A Dog Named Boo: How One Dog and One Woman Rescued Each Other--and the Lives They Transformed Along the Way
She thought she was rescuing an abandoned puppy. Turns out, he was rescuing her.
The last thing Lisa Edwards needed was a new dog. But when she came across an abandoned litter on Halloween, her heart went out to the runt who walked into walls and couldn't steady his feet. Lisa—healing from past...
| 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 | John W. Pilley |
| ISBN | 0544102576 |
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,...
| Author | Kim Kavin |
| ISBN | 0764165267 |
When journalist Kim Kavin decided that she wanted a puppy, she did what millions of people do every year: clicked on an online photo and submitted an application. She had no idea that the adorable brindle puppy—advertised as healthy and near her home in New Jersey—was actually a last-minute rescue...
| Author | Sharron Kahn Luttrell |
| ISBN | 1451686234 |
“A heartwarming and utterly charming story about empathy, hope, and letting go. Weekends with Daisy shows us how loving a dog can make us all a little more human.” —Lisa Genova, NYT bestselling author of Still Alice and Love, Anthony
“Moving… with candor that will win over readers.”...
| Author | Ken Foster |
| ISBN | 1592287492 |
Disaster-prone writer and reluctant dog rescuer Ken Foster finds himself adopting an ever-growing collection of stray dogs, from a beagle abandoned in a New York City dog run to a pit bull in a Mississippi truck stop. Their circumstances offer a grounding counterpoint to his own misfortunes: the shock...
Trident K9 Warriors: My Tale from the Training Ground to the Battlefield with Elite Navy SEAL Canines
| Author | Mike Ritland |
| ISBN | 1250024986 |
As Seen on "60 Minutes"!
As a Navy SEAL during a combat deployment in Iraq, Mike Ritland saw a military working dog in action and instantly knew he'd found his true calling. Ritland started his own company training and supplying dogs for the SEAL teams, U.S. Government, and Department of Defense....
