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The Social Lives of Dogs: The Grace of Canine Company

10 best books like The Social Lives of Dogs: The Grace of Canine Company (Elizabeth Marshall Thomas): Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs, Shelter Dogs, Lost and Found: Dogs, Cats, and Everyday Heroes at a Country Animal Shelter, Shelter Dogs: Amazing Stories of Adopted Strays, Dog Heroes of September 11th: A Tribute to America's Search and Rescue Dogs, How the Dog Became the Dog: From Wolves to Our Best Friends, Dogs I Have Met: And the People They Found, 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, On Talking Terms with Dogs: Calming Signals

Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs
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...
Shelter Dogs
AuthorTraer Scott
ISBN1858943523
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...
Lost and Found: Dogs, Cats, and Everyday Heroes at a Country Animal Shelter
AuthorElizabeth Hess
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...
Shelter Dogs: Amazing Stories of Adopted Strays
AuthorPeg Kehret
ISBN0807573361
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...
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...
How the Dog Became the Dog: From Wolves to Our Best Friends
AuthorMark Derr
ISBN1590207009
How the Dog Became the Dog posits that dog was an evolutionary inevitability in the nature of the wolf and its human soul mate.


The natural temperament and social structure of humans and wolves are so similar that as soon as they met on the trail they recognized themselves in each other. Both...
Dogs I Have Met: And the People They Found
AuthorKen Foster
ISBN1599211297
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...
One at a Time: A Week in an American Animal Shelter
AuthorDiane Leigh
ISBN0972838708
"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...
One Dog at a Time: Saving the Strays of Helmand - An Inspiring True Story
AuthorPen Farthing
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...
On Talking Terms with Dogs: Calming Signals
AuthorTurid Rugaas
ISBN1929242360
One of our all time best selling books is now in its second edition with three additional chapters, color photos and descriptive captions. Turid Rugaas is a noted expert on canine body language, notably "calming signals" which are signals dogs give to other dogs and humans to denote stress and to attempt...
Bones Would Rain from the Sky: Deepening Our Relationships with Dogs
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...
Canine Body Language: A Photographic Guide Interpreting the Native Language of the Domestic Dog
AuthorBrenda Aloff
ISBN1929242352
So, I had to send this back. Library and their rigid rules about due dates and such. Maybe I'll get it again. Maybe I won't. But I should do this book some justice.

It was really quite interesting. You'd think it might be dated, that there might be something revolutionary that's happened in the...
The Dog Who Loved Too Much: Tales, Treatments and the Psychology of Dogs
AuthorNicholas Dodman
ISBN0553375261
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
AuthorStanley Coren
ISBN1416593683
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...
A Rare Breed of Love: The True Story of Baby and the Mission She Inspired to Help Dogs Everywhere
AuthorJana Kohl
ISBN1416564039
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...
Dog is My Co-Pilot: Great Writers on the World's Oldest Friendship
AuthorThe Bark
ISBN1400050537
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...
Dogs Never Lie About Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs
AuthorJeffrey Moussaieff Masson
ISBN0609802011
Great read! I liked when he mentioned his dog looking at him with a "long, rueful gaze," and when he wrote that "dogs return love so fiercely, so openly, so unambivalently" (that it's hard not to return the sentiment). I've seen lot's of emotion in dogs, I feel like sometimes they are more emotional than...
The New Work of Dogs: Tending to Life, Love, and Family
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...
The Dog's Mind: Understanding Your Dog's Behavior
AuthorBruce Fogle
ISBN0876055137
"Quite simply this is an excellent book. It is well-written, with snatches of dry humour. It should be mandatory reading for anybody who keeps a dog or has intentions of so doing." -R. W. F. Poole, Daily TelegraphHow do dogs perceive the world about them? How do they see, hear, learn, relate to their owners?...
What the Dog Did: Tales from a Formerly Reluctant Dog Owner
AuthorEmily Yoffe
ISBN1582345651
"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,...
Getting Started: Clicker Training for Dogs
AuthorKaren Pryor
ISBN1890948217
From the author of Don't Shoot the Dog!, this book & two SitStay clickers are a must have for those learning clicker training. Clicker training is not about the clicker or about the food. It is about the reinforcement presented with correct timing in such a way that information is communicated between...
You Are a Dog: Life Through the Eyes of Man's Best Friend
AuthorTerry Bain
ISBN1400052424
A hilarious, captivating commentary that gives us--finally--a true dog’s-eye view of the world.

• The Sofa: “The sofa is Position One. The sofa makes you feel as if you are with your people even when your people are gone.”

• The Toilet: “The advantage of drinking from...
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