Kategoria BISAC: Pets >> Essays & Narratives

When another hunter intentionally kills his hunting dog during a pheasant hunt in North Dakota, P.J. Sanders's grief is immense. It takes eighteen months before he and his wife, Cindy, decide to open their hearts and their home to another dog.

This time, though, Sanders decides to go for a heartier breed-something able to hunt with him throughout the frigid Wisconsin winters. He finds a breeder of German Wirehaired Pointers and, a few months later, a young puppy named Josie joins the family.

As Sanders goes through the process of transforming Josie into a hunting dog, he is struck...

At just a few months old, Kalli arrived in her forever home-determined to train her new owners, Laura and Marc Abbott, to be perfect humans.

Brilliant, fearless, and displaying little patience for the antics of other dogs, she was always a spaniel with a mind of her own. Even in the face of obedience classes, the calculating canine was constantly plotting her next move, working the system in any way she possibly could.

But it wasn't just Laura and Marc's lives that Kalli changed forever. As a certified therapy dog, she helped teenage girls with substance abuse problems-and...

As he grows into an enormous ninety-pound dog with a huge personality, Simba cements the bond between two families and enriches their lives in countless ways.

When the family moves from San Francisco to New York, the author is charged with bringing Simba to the family's new home, so he and his best friend, Erick, load the old hound into the back...

One dog being mistreated is one too many-so when a group of volunteers encounters a hoarder who is driving a bus crammed with over one hundred huskies and German shepherds, more than half of which are pregnant, they vow to do whatever it takes to rescue them.

"Angels on a School Bus" tells the remarkable story of this 2008 canine rescue, one of the largest operations in the United States, which took place in Butte, Montana. Camp Husky and its volunteers are a testament to the amazing impact a group of dedicated individuals can have when they work together and refuse to give up, no...

Everyone from five to ninety- five who has ever owned a dog must have wondered at times just how their pets think. What do they think about? What do they think about us, the humans? If only they could talk and tell us their thoughts All dogs are individuals just like humans, with different personalities to match. We can get some idea about how they feel, but it's just guesswork.
Barry and Pam have had many canine friends through their family life, and it's these dogs that enlighten us about human behaviour. Their first dogs were inseparable because they were brother and sister...