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This updated edition of Pet Loss and Human Emotion is a step-by-step guide to leading clients through this special kind of grief. Includes resources and a section on pet loss and natural disasters.

As society accepts that grieving over the death of a loved one is not only normal, but healthy and necessary, grieving over the loss of a pet is often seen differently. Expressed feelings often go unvalidated when in truth, pet loss is a unique form of grief that can be quite intense and debilitating, increasing an individual's vulnerability to subsequent stress and leaving them...

Penny was a scared, tired, and hungry dog when someone from an animal shelter found her in the city park. She was one of the lucky ones and was placed with a loving and devoted rescue group. But that is just the beginning of her story.

Penny the Pibble is the true story of animal rescue and adoption. Penny is one of the unwanted breeds who have a hard time finding a home. Lucky for her, Penny finds a family willing to take a chance on her. Not only does she gain a great family, she gets a strange new sister to boot

In Without Animals Life Is Not Worth Living, eco-philosopher Freya Mathews livens up her theme - that the company of animals is indispensable to human existence - by way of the story of an anarchic but irresistible pig.

'In this captivating story of a pig and a philosopher, Freya takes up the narratival mode of exposition that has recently engaged philosophers. Her account of Pookie tells of a human person's love across a huge species boundary. Few pigs have been so fondly and respectfully brought into print. Freya's philosophical commitment to truth leads her into...

Did you ever look into the eyes of an animal and wonder if they could understand you? Have you ever fantasized about how great it would be for you to understand what they thought? In this fascinating book Gerald Bunch relates his journey from Naval Officer/engineer/left-brained empiricist to intuitive animal communicator.

He explains that intuitive communication is a capability we are all born with and we can each re-learn. In sharing many of the conversations he has had with various species, he takes us into the world as experienced by animals. He describes how we can deepen the bond...

Did you ever look into the eyes of an animal and wonder if they could understand you? Have you ever fantasized about how great it would be for you to understand what they thought? In this fascinating book Gerald Bunch relates his journey from Naval Officer/engineer/left-brained empiricist to intuitive animal communicator.

He explains that intuitive communication is a capability we are all born with and we can each re-learn. In sharing many of the conversations he has had with various species, he takes us into the world as experienced by animals. He describes how we can deepen the bond...

Our animals show us unconditional love in its purest form.

They are our most loyal companions, constantly navigating our energy to support our needs. This is something Pamela Robins experienced on a profound level when she was faced with a relentless series of major life challenges, including the death of her mother, her own cancer diagnosis, a divorce, and letting go of her life as she knew it in order to find herself.

Her animals were instrumental in getting her through it all. Recognizing how hard they were working to comfort and heal her, Pamela...

Our animals show us unconditional love in its purest form.

They are our most loyal companions, constantly navigating our energy to support our needs. This is something Pamela Robins experienced on a profound level when she was faced with a relentless series of major life challenges, including the death of her mother, her own cancer diagnosis, a divorce, and letting go of her life as she knew it in order to find herself.

Her animals were instrumental in getting her through it all. Recognizing how hard they were working to comfort and heal her, Pamela worried...

This is the story of Sophie, a rough-coated Collie who was a certified therapy dog for over twelve years. You will learn about her remarkable life, the lives she touched, and the lessons both she and I learned. This book is also a tribute to all people and their pets that do therapy work, and it will be an inspiration to dog owners everywhere.

Sophie . . . Best Friends Are Forever is meant to honor Sophie's memory and to make people realize how important it is to give back in this world. With Sophie, every day was a new beginning and started with a clean slate. In her work, she also...

Mary's poems capture the essence of the changing of the seasons and focuses on the beautiful nature enveloping our surroundings. Mary's writing invokes feelings of joyfulness and sometimes reflects our fleeting moods of sadness. Her poems are like ocean waves in which we can surf from the peak of feeling happy to the shore of feeling warm contentment.

Mary Margaret uses poems to express the inner spirit's ability to bring about joyful feelings of daily renewal. She would like the reader to contemplate nature's beautiful gifts.

As you open this book of poetry, allow the...

This volume looks first at the main zoonoses affecting pigs and how they can be controlled. It then reviews the latest research on aspects of meat quality such as flavour, colour,...

This volume looks at pig breeding and nutrition. Part 1 starts by reviewing advances in mapping and exploiting the pig genome and its implications for molecular breeding techniques,...

This volume looks at animal health and welfare. Part 1 reviews the main diseases affecting pigs as well as ways of managing diseases and boosting pig immune function. Part 2 reviews...