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[[Category:New Reviews|Pets]]==Pets==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona Louise Bate 1780724047|title=Gus|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Gus is a beagle, who stands upright with his tail held high and in this delightful little book he tells us about his day. He shares his garden with a couple A Dictionary of tortoises called Dido Interesting and Hector, but only in summer as they disappear in winter. He's a dog who loves his comfort and we see him having his tummy tickled, snoozing, curled up in a chair and making artistic designs on a white duvet with his muddy paws. He's always alert though – and squirrel knows when it's best to make himself scarce, as do some plump pigeons.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312357</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewImportant Dogs|author=www.dogfriendly.co.uk |title=Dog Friendly Pubs, Beaches and Days Out: Your Comprehensive Guide to Dog Friendly Pubs, Beaches and Days Out Peter J Conradi|rating=34

|summary=If I'm going out for the day struggle to enjoy myself resist a book about dogs, but I want my dogs with me. Itdid wonder why this one was so ''thin''s not just : given that I enjoy their company've never encountered a dog who wasn't interesting or important - and probably both, but I donwas expecting a massive tome. But ''A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs'' is actually ''t like leaving them in a rich compendium of the house for too long. Ideas for days out are always welcome. Itworld's good to know about pubs that are not going to frown as you get to the door most significant and if webeloved dogs''re heading to the coast I like to know which beaches we can use and if there are any restrictionsit's certainly a rich treasure trove. We begin with Peter J Conradi''Pubss four collies: Cloudy, Beaches Sky. Bradley and Days OutMax. They're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogs, but what comes over is Conradi' aims to fill a hole! s love for each and every one of them. How does it do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956045952</amazonuk>I knew that I was in safe hands.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787112926|authortitle=wwwWorzel goes for a Walk.dogfriendly.co.uk Will you come too?|titleauthor=Dog Friendly Camping and Caravan Sites: Your Comprehensive Guide to Dog Friendly Camping Catherine Pickles and Caravan SitesChantal Bourgonje|rating=2.5|genre=PetsFor Sharing|summary=If When we [[Worzel says hello! Will yoube my friend? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|last met Worzel Woolface]] he was a rather frightened dog who had difficulty meeting people. He're s a bit better now and something which he really enjoys is going camping or caravanning itfor a walk. It's not always easy to take your dogs with you. Some sites don't allow dogs; others have restrictions on breeds, size or number just a case of dogs, whilst others make attaching a charge. You're then faced with wondering whether lead and heading for your favourite spot - there will be somewhere to exercise the dogs and how easy it will be to get rid are a lot of the, er, deposits! ''Dog Friendly Camping and Caravan Sites: Your Comprehensive Guide other things to Dog Friendly Camping and Caravan Sites'' is an answer to this, but it's nowhere near as comprehensive as the title would suggestthink about first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956045936</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=www.dogfriendly.co.ukHainsworth_Gina|title=Dog Friendly HotelsTalking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth|rating=34.5|genre=PetsGraphic Novels|summary=I have two big dogs''This is what happened. They're Rhodesian Ridgebacks – quiet, well-behaved and friendly dogs – and they're family. I've no wish to put them in kennels An artist decided she needed a dog – so that I can go on holiday any more than most families would want to put drove the children in kennels for length of the same purposecountry, Brighton to Grimsby, to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and one working eye. But finding somewhere which doesnWhy not? The first night at home, Gina – the dog – eats something she shouldn't just tolerate my and causes a mess, so it's not a great start, but then begin the tribulations of training, status and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs but actively makes them welcome is not easy. IAnd then, the life with Gina begins to feel like too much – 've found hotels which say 'Dogs Welcome' but when I felt weird about you because you enquire they actually mean that were always there. My thoughts were taken over by you can bring one small dog which must never be left alone , and for which theyI felt sick, as if I was in love.''ll make a charge. That's why this book is such a reliefSlowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, her husband, two children and two cats – gets to form the family they and Gina all would have wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956045928</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma DoddIngram_Kammie|title=I Don't Want A Cool CatConversations with Kammie|author=Annie Ingram

|genre=For SharingHumour|summary=Emma Dodd's [[It was something of a relief when I Don't Want a Posh Dog by Emma Dodd|previous book]] saw encountered Annie Ingram and her turning her nose up posh dogscocker spaniel Kammie. Here she doesn't want a cool catYou see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for a treat her like long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a fool catlevel of food! walk! or play!. There are You do require extensive training to become fluent, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and all sorts of other cats she doesn't want, until she gets you have to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the type pair have allowed us to share some of cat she can call her owntheir conversations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184616950X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lady Annabel GoldsmithMattinson_Puppy|title=Copper: A Dog's LifeChoosing the Perfect Puppy|author=Pippa Mattinson|rating=4.5|genre=HumourHome and Family|summary=Copper was one of If you have ever, for even a fleeting moment, thought about getting a litter puppy, you really ought to read this book. Too many people are carried away in the heat of dogs born to a stray bitch the moment and who was 'adopted' by Lady Annabel Goldsmith - or might it be must'' have a particular breed and go ahead without any thought about the other way round?consequences. Here he tells his story in his own words as transcribed They then have to live with the problems which ''might'' have been avoided for him by his ownera decade or more. He's got his own priorities – The puppy and obedience is the adult dog also has to live with an owner who might not one of them – along with a roving spiritbe able to accommodate his needs. It's perhaps fortunate that he's a [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go-to author on matters dog as this allows you to call him 'cheeky' and 'charming'related: she talks sense. If he was a human being She doesn'randy' and 'arrogant' would be two t try to talk you out of getting a particular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the first words which came facts and allows you to mindmake your own decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751538205</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily GravettPickles_Worzel|title=DogsWorzel says hello! Will you be my friend?|author=Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje

|genre=For SharingPets|summary=We donI'd like you to meet Worzel, but you'll need to do exactly what I say. Worzel is quite a big dog, but that doesn't know who it is who tells us mean that they love dogshe's fierce, or even very brave. In fact, he's frightened, and little as you are, well not he's frightened of you. He'd like to start withmeet you though: can you see that nose just poking out from the side of the sofa? Now he's peering over the cushion - and finally, but he's risking leaving that very safe place he's found, behind the narrator is adamantsofa.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=instagram_dogs|title=Dogs on Instagram|author=@dogsofinstagram|rating=3. They love big 5|genre=Pets|summary=I'm a sucker for dogs : I can't walk past one in the street without stopping and small having a conversation, sometimes without bothering to speak to the owners, so a book of pictures of dogs – and we see a glorious Great Danewas going to be right up my street. The wildly popular @dogs_of_instagram, all legs run by Ahmed El Shourbagy and inquisitive face with a delicate Chihuahua nestled between his pawswife Ashley and launched just four years ago gives us this book of over four hundred photographs of dogs. You donOriginally I had no intention of reviewing it: in fact I wasn't know who will even intending to read the book, just to have a quick flick through, but within five minutes I was showing other people in the best office the picture of it but that Chihuahua looks pretty fearsomethe Weimaraner riding a bicycle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230704220</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gene Weingarten and Michael S Williamson (Photographer)Prendergast_Digger|title=Old DogsDog on a Digger: The Tricky Incident|author=Kate Prendergast

|summary=As a reviewer I see a lot of books and whilst I read I'm usually wondering going to tell you a story about who I'll pass Dog, Man, Lady and the book Pup. They all work on to when I've finished an industrial site - in fact, Dog and Man live there in a caravan and Man drives the reviewsort of digger which is dreamed about by boys large and small. Will it be a friend, Lady and the Pup run the local library or snack bar and one of our schools? Itday as they's a part of my reviewing process re all having something to think about where eat, the book will sit most happilyPup goes missing. With Man and Lady search everywhere but it's Dog'Old Dogs's sharp ears which finally track him down - caught in a branch over a fast-flowing stream. And it' s Dog who works out how to rescue him. I was only needed 88 words to tell you that story, but Kate Prendergast does it without using a few pages single one - and she tells it in before a far more engaging way than I was considering whether it should live on my bedside table or in the main bookshelves. The bedside table won. Easilycould ever manage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1416534997</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew ColeStrachan_50Cat|title=Will Work for Nuts50 Games to Play With Your Cat|author=Jackie Strachan|rating=3.5

|summary=The intrepid adventurer faces a most daunting challengeCats love to play. Girding his loins It is written in anticipation of achieving his goaltheir DNA. From kittenhood onward, he leaps into action, hell-bent only on success, never fearing an innate curiosity about the inherent dangerworld around them spurs cats to view everything as a potential plaything. With death-defying stunts and leaps aplentyFor cats, he needs the desire to play helps them to use any vehicles he finds in his path, untold balancing hone their hunting skills. For cat owners, nerveit provides an opportunity to bond with a much-racking whippy plastic stick things, loved pet and create special moments that are entertaining to both cat and an awful lot morehuman alike. Finally his litheIf you are stuck for ideas for games to play with your cat, muscular frame lands near his targetor would simply like to try something new, and he sits back and eats his nutsthen 50 Games To Play With Your Cat provides plenty of inspiration.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007279574</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eric NakagawaLeask_Miracle|title=I Can Has Cheezburger Miracle: The extraordinary dog that refused to die|author=Amanda Leask

|summary=Amanda Leask has been obsessed with dogs all her life and it''I Can Has Cheezburger'', is s been an obsession which needs the world and a clever and witty anthology of some lot of its attitudes to dogs to change for the best pictures and captions from better. She's not daunted by the fantastic [httpobstacles://icanhascheezburger.com/ lolcats website] of she's simply determined to do all that she possibly can to make the same nameworld a better place for dogs. The site has been growing in popularity in recent monthsAmanda lives with her husband Tobias, son Kyle and so it was inevitable that a book would soon hit the shelvesmore than twenty rescue and sled dogs near Inverness. Very nice, you're probably thinking. Choosing which pics Wouldn't we all like to include in the book could not have been an easy task, and some that sort of the old favourites are there, alongside some less well known oneslifestyle? But hold on a minute.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340977574</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Turid RugaasPrendergast_Train|title=On Talking Terms With DogsDog on a Train: Calming SignalsThe Special Delivery|author=Kate Prendergast|rating=3.5

|summary=IIt've long been aware that my two Rhodesian Ridgebacks can communicate s one of those mornings for Boy: late out of bed he grabs at his hat and hurtles out of the house to catch his train - only he drops his hat as he goes through the door and Dog chases after him with each other the hat in ways far more subtle than any human being can musterhis mouth. A glance, a tilt of the They head or a flick of to the tongue and tube station (Dog doesn't forget to wait at the message zebra crossing) with boy just twenty or so yards in front, but Dog is received and understood. Our older dog is known losing ground as Rosie Glarehe has to find someone to carry him on the escalator. I donHe misses Boy't know what the facial expression does s train and has to wait for the younger dognext one, but it certainly puts me in my placeremembers his manners well enough to stand up so that an old lady can have his seat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954803213</amazonuk>Will he catch up with boy when he reaches London Kings Cross?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Turid RugaasMattinson_Labrador|title=What Do I Do When... My Dog Pulls?The Labrador Handbook: The definitive guide to training and caring for your Labrador|author=Pippa Mattinson

|summary=If you ask dog owners what problems they have In 2014 about 16% of all pedigree puppies registered with their pets you can be certain the Kennel Club were Labradors - and that some will come up time 's with over 200 breeds to choose from. They're one of the most respected breeds and time again. Failure to return when called is commonwith good reason - great as gundogs, as is intrusive barking but brilliant in the one that comes up most often is show ring and a wonderful part of the failure family to walk properly on boot. Author Pippa Mattinson is a leadzoologist and founder of The Gundog Trust. It might not seem to be a major problem if you have a small She supports modern, science-based dog training methods - but for those of us with big her passion is about helping people to enjoy their dogs – I have two Rhodesian Ridgebacks – it can be a major and dangerous problem, particularly in frosty weather. If my two dogs decided you're looking for advice about Labradors, she is going to be difficult to pull there is no way that I could control their combined weight of 75kg - and most of it is solid musclebetter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954803205</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rex HarperPerris_Dogs|title=An Eagle in the Airing CupboardBeautiful Dogs Postcard Book: 30 Postcards of Champion Breeds to Keep or Send|author=Andrew Perris|rating=54|genre=AutobiographyPets|summary=We first met Rex Harper in [[An Otter on If you're looking for a present for a dog lover, Beautiful Dogs might fit the Aga]] where he told us of how he and his wife, Julie worked first to help injured or abused animals and then founded their own animal sanctuarybill. It was 's a book of laughterthirty postcards, sadness at which you can either send or keep in the way that some people will treat animals and gratitude that there are people like Rex and Julie who devote their lives book. You might expect to find the welfare of animals. At more usual breeds - Labradors, Retrievers and the end of ''Otter'like - but instead, you' ll find more exotic breeds such as the sanctuary had been taken over by Bedlington Terrier and the RSPCA and 'Bolognese. There'An Eagle in s just the Airing Cupboard'' takes up where ''Otter'' finished one dog or bitch on each card and looks at a year in Andrew Perris has managed to give us an excellent view of the life of a wardenanimal whilst allowing it to look completely natural.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755318021</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Laks_Gentle|authortitle=Linda Newbery My Gentle Barn: where animals heal and Catherine Rayner children learn to hope|titleauthor=Posy Ellie Laks|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingPets|summary=I've got As a new best friendchild, Ellie Laks was abused, but not only did she suffer at the hands of her abuser, she also had to endure parental indifference to what was happening to her. She's called PosyHer only relief came through animals - and even then she had to cope when the animals were taken from her. Posy is As an adult, she discovered that she had a kitten real talent for healing animals - and that they helped her fur is that wonderful mixture to heal too. In a brilliant leap of blackintuition, brown and cream she realised that we call tabby. Under if the animals could help her tummy, all four paws to heal they could do the same for others and her face look so the Gentle Barn was born - a place where animals were brought as though they've been dipped in a bowl place of cream, which, knowing Posy, is quite possible. She's still finding out about the world, you seesafety and where disadvantaged children and special needs groups could use as therapy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843629909</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graeme SimsMattinson_Happy|title=The Dog WhispererHappy Puppy Handbook: Your Definitive Guide to Puppy Care and Early Training|author=Pippa Mattinson

|summary=Graeme Sims Unfortunately far too many people acquire puppies because of the aww... factor. They look gorgeous, cuddly, cute - rather like an animated soft toy - and there are people who have to have one. Now. The reality is rightly proud of all that he's achieved in bringing a puppy into your home - into your life. After a catastrophic business collapse (at - requires about the age of fifty) which was none same level of his fault, he planning as moving home and his wife Maureen made the decision best guide which I've seen to move to rural Devon, but on preparing for a puppy and the eve early stages of their departure he encountered a stray dogliving with one is Pippa Mattinson's The Happy Puppy Handbook. Annie was to change his life Do get it well in ways that he couldnadvance. If you't imagine. From being unemployable he was to become re only thinking about getting a shepherd, presenter of demonstrations in puppy it might even put you off - but then it will be well worth the cover price if it saves you a theme park and dog trainer. Graeme Sims had discovered that he was capable great deal of communicating with dogs expense and could understand what they were telling himeven more heartache.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755316983</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna QuindlenRosenfelt_Puppy|title=Life The Puppy Express: On the road with Beau: A Tale of a Dog and His Family 25 rescue dogs . . . what could go wrong?|author=David Rosenfelt

|summary=BristolIf you's Beauregard Buchananre moving home from Southern California with twenty-five rescue dogs how, Beau to his family and friendsexactly, is an old dog when we first meet him. Whilst Anna Quindlen is at the vetdo you do it? Add in that these are mostly elderly dogs who's collecting his prescription Beau is sleeping on the rug ve already had too much change and trauma in the foyer. The rug smells. Beau smells their lives and he has little sight or hearing, but then heit's nearly fifteen years oldobvious that crating them and flying them across the country isn't going to work. HeThey couldn's reached t all go together and the trip would take about twenty-four hours with all the changes - and that stage in an older dog's life when there's no point in his going before you even begin to see think about the prohibitive cost. In the end, the vet (he certainly doesn't want to go there ever againanswer was a convoy of three motorhomes, after what happened to his prostate…) the addition of nine helpers and just about non-stop driving across the next house call will be the lastcontinent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091921228</amazonuk>Fun, eh?

  {{newreview Frontpage|isbn=Morris_Iamcat|title=The Loved DogI am Cat (mini edition)|author=Tamar GellerJackie Morris|rating=4

|genre=Pets|summary=People tell me that IWhen we first meet Jon Katz he'm fortunate s not in my dogsa good place: they're usually wellhis marriage of thirty-behaved five years was breaking up and he was close to a pleasure to be around despite the fact that theynervous breakdown. He didn're really rather bigt need any more problems. In much He particularly ''didn't'' need a young rescue dog, a Rottweiler/Shepherd mix, who'd been living wild, to contend with and to upset the same way that Gary Player hit fragile equilibrium of the nail life he lived with his animals on Bedlam Farm. Frieda was near feral but devoted to her rescuer, Maria Wulf and it was Maria who was at the head when he said that centre of this conundrum. Katz was spectacularly disconnected from the harder he practiced world - and Maria was the luckier only person to whom he gotseemed able to talk, well-mannered but to connect with Maria he had to connect with Frieda too.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Coren_Dogs|title=Do Dogs Dream?: Nearly Everything Your Dog Wants You to Know|author=Stanley Coren|rating=4.5|genre=Pets|summary=If you love dogs are generally the product of this book is an assiduous training regimeabsolute gem. In the past it was thought that this could only be achieved by dominating the It's not going to explain to you how to feed or train your dog by brute force if necessary and with the . There's no advice on first aid of such implements of torture as or when you should seek advice from the choke chainvet. The What you get are seventy-two essays on subjects which dog lovers ponder on, each one area just two or three pages long and written in terms which the layman can understand. I was fortunate is that once I saw 've opened the size book at random and found ''Why Do Dogs Touch Noses?'', ''Do Dogs Recognize Themselves in a Mirror?'' and strength of ''Why Do Puppies Sleep in a fully-grown Rhodesian Ridgeback I knew Pile?'' There's nothing there that I had no hope of physically dominating the dog. I would you absolutely ''have '' to find some other method of trainingknow so that you can keep a dog as he should be kept but by the time that you've finished you will know him a lot better. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091922259</amazonuk>