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[[Category:New Reviews|Pets]]__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Fogden, Marianne Taylor and Sheri L Williamson1780724047|title=Hummingbirds: A Life-Size Guide to Every SpeciesDictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs|author=Peter J Conradi|rating=4.5|genre=ReferencePets|summary=I struggle to resist a book about dogs, but I did wonder why this one was so ''thin'': given that I've always been fascinated by hummingbirds never encountered a dog who wasn't interesting or important - delicateand probably both, colourful, beautifully and brilliantly adapted to extract nectar from flowersI was expecting a massive tome. Perhaps But ''A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs'' is actually ''a rich compendium of the world's most of all for me significant and beloved dogs'' and it's their acrobatic flight - the ability to hover and manoeuvre which has me hookedcertainly a rich treasure trove. We begin with Peter J Conradi's four collies: I could watch them for hoursCloudy, amazed that birds whose weight can only meaningfully be given in ounces can do so muchSky. Bradley and Max. I was drawn to this book as soon as I saw itThey're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogs, but what comes over is Conradi's love for a number each and every one of reasonsthem. I knew that I was in safe hands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400893</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pippa Mattinson1787112926|title=The Happy Puppy Handbook: Your Definitive Guide to Puppy Care Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too?|author=Catherine Pickles and Early TrainingChantal Bourgonje|rating=4.5|genre=PetsFor Sharing|summary=Unfortunately far too many When we [[Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|last met Worzel Woolface]] he was a rather frightened dog who had difficulty meeting people acquire puppies because of the ''aww...'' factor. They look gorgeous, cuddly, cute - rather like an animated soft toy - and there are people who He''have'' to have one. Now. The reality is that bringing s a puppy into your home - into your life - requires about the same level of planning as moving home bit better now and the best guide something which I've seen to preparing he really enjoys is going for a puppy and the early stages of living with one is Pippa Mattinson's The Happy Puppy Handbookwalk. Do get it well in advance. If youIt're only thinking about getting s not just a case of attaching a puppy it might even put you off lead and heading for your favourite spot - but then it will be well worth the cover price if it saves you there are a great deal lot of expense and even more heartacheother things to think about first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091957265</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David RosenfeltHainsworth_Gina|title=The Puppy Express: On the road with 25 rescue dogs . . . what could go wrong?Talking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth

|genre=PetsGraphic Novels|summary=If you're moving home from Southern California with twenty five rescue dogs how, 'This is what happened.'exactly'' do you do it An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the length of the country, Brighton to Grimsby, to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and one working eye. Why not? Add in that these are mostly elderly dogs whoThe first night at home, Gina – the dog – eats something she shouldn've already had too much change and trauma in their lives t and causes a mess, so it's obvious that crating them not a great start, but then begin the tribulations of training, status and flying them across country isn't going to work. They couldn't behaviour all humans must go together and through with their dogs. And then, the trip would take about twenty four hours life with all the changes - and that's before you even 'Gina begins to feel like too much – 'begin'' to think I felt weird about the prohibitive costyou because you were always there. In the end the answer was a convoy of three motorhomesMy thoughts were taken over by you, the addition of nine helpers and just about non-stop driving across the continentI felt sick, as if I was in love. '' FunSlowly, eh?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751553522<however, everyone – our artist/amazonuk>author, her husband, two children and two cats – gets to form the family they and Gina all would have wanted.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Ingram_Kammie|title=I am Cat (mini edition)Conversations with Kammie|author=Jackie MorrisAnnie Ingram

|genre=Emerging ReadersHumour|summary=You're always supposed to tell It was something of a relief when a dog is dreaming – the twitching limbs I encountered Annie Ingram and jerking joints allegedly proving the sleeping Fido is imagining himself on the chaseher cocker spaniel Kammie. Cats are, as alwaysYou see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for a bit more secretive, but [[:Categorylong time:Jackie Morris|Jackie Morris]] offers evidence here that they dogs are more perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a level of food! walk! or less thinking the same thing – even the domestic moggyplay!. You do require extensive training to become fluent, curled up but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and closed in, all you have to do is picturing a different self – one sleeking through snows, relaxing on the savannah or alertly moving through its territorylisten. It's a very pleasant view into Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the mindset pair have allowed us to share some of catstheir conversations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805078</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon KatzMattinson_Puppy|title=The Dog Nobody LovedChoosing the Perfect Puppy|author=Pippa Mattinson|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyHome and Family|summary=When we first meet Jon Katz he's not in If you have ever, for even a fleeting moment, thought about getting a good place: his marriage of thirty-five years was breaking up and he was close puppy, you really ought to a nervous breakdownread this book. He didnToo many people are carried away in the heat of the moment and 't need 'must'' have a particular breed and go ahead without any more problemsthought about the consequences. He particularly They then have to live with the problems which ''didnmight't'' need have been avoided for a young rescue decade or more. The puppy and the adult dog, a Rottweiler/Shepherd mix, who'd been living wild, also has to contend live with and an owner who might not be able to upset the fragile equilibrium of the life he lived with accommodate his animals needs. [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go-to author on Bedlam Farmmatters dog related: she talks sense. Frieda was near feral but devoted She doesn't try to her rescuer, Maria Wulf and it was Maria who was at the centre talk you out of this conundrum. Katz was spectacularly disconnected from getting a particular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the world - facts and Maria was the only person to whom he seemed able to talk, but to connect with Maria he had allows you to connect with Frieda toomake your own decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091957443</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stanley CorenPickles_Worzel|title=Do Dogs DreamWorzel says hello! Will you be my friend?: Nearly Everything Your Dog Wants You to Know|author=Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|rating=4.5

|summary=If I'd like you love dogs this book is an absolute gem. It's not going to explain to meet Worzel, but you how 'll need to feed or train your do exactly what I say. Worzel is quite a big dog. There, but that doesn't mean that he's no advice on first aid fierce, or when you should seek advice from the veteven very brave. What you get are seventy two essays on subjects which dog lovers ponder onIn fact, each one just two or three pages long and written in terms which the layman can understand. Ihe've opened the book at random s frightened, and found 'Why Do Dogs Touch Noses?'little as you are, 'Do Dogs Recognize Themselves in a Mirror?' and 'Why Do Puppies Sleep in a Pile?' Therehe's nothing there that frightened of you absolutely ''have'. He' d like to know so that meet you though: can keep a dog as you see that nose just poking out from the side of the sofa? Now he should be kept but by 's peering over the time cushion - and finally, he's risking leaving that youvery safe place he've finished you will know him a lot betters found, behind the sofa.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393338126</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marianne Taylor and Andrew Perrisinstagram_dogs|title=Beautiful Owls: Portraits of Arresting Species from Around the WorldDogs on Instagram|author=@dogsofinstagram|rating=43.5

|summary=Owls are strange birdsI'm a sucker for dogs: because they're crepuscular and twilight isnI can't walk past one in the best time for ''seeing'' birds with any clarity they tend street without stopping and having a conversation, sometimes without bothering to speak to be the stuff of legend and we don't know as much about them as we might. On the other handowners, they're the most recognisable so a book of birds, perhaps because pictures of the forward-facing eyes and would look almost human if it dogs was not for that uncanny ability going to swivel the neck to almost 360°be right up my street. Marianne Taylor has gone some way towards correcting The wildly popular @dogs_of_instagram, run by Ahmed El Shourbagy and his wife Ashley and launched just four years ago gives us this lack book of knowledge over four hundred photographs of dogs. Originally I had no intention of reviewing it: in fact I wasn''Beautiful Owls''. She gives us an overview of t even intending to read the speciesbook, traces them back just to have a quick flick through, but within five minutes I was showing other people in the earliest civilisations and shows their evolutionoffice the picture of the Weimaraner riding a bicycle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005971</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomasina PricePrendergast_Digger|title=Goodnight BuffyDog on a Digger: Loving a Lakeland TerrierThe Tricky Incident|author=Kate Prendergast|rating=3.5

|summary=Most dog owners will confess that even after I'm going to tell you a story about Dog, Man, Lady and the Pup. They all work on an industrial site - in fact, Dog and Man live there in a lifetime caravan and Man drives the sort of ownership there digger which is one dog who holds their heartdreamed about by boys large and small. Often Lady and the close bond has been forged because of Pup run the dog’s ill healthsnack bar and one day as they're all having something to eat, although the Pup goes missing. Man and Lady search everywhere but it never seems to be completely one's Dog's sharp ears which finally track him down -sided: an interdependence develops and dog and human seem to exist as one. The dog who stole my heart was caught in a branch over a Rhodesian Ridgeback fast- for Thomasina Price flowing stream. And it was Buffy the Lakeland Terrier's Dog who works out how to rescue him. She had a traumatic start I needed 88 words to lifetell you that story, found hiding in but Kate Prendergast does it without using a shop doorway in Blackpool single one - and she was taken tells it in by a young woman, but she, in turn contracted ovarian cancer and at the age of two Buffy came to what was at least her third home when she was fostered by Thomasina Price’s sisterfar more engaging way than I could ever manage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780883722</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melissa WarehamStrachan_50Cat|title=Rescuing Gus50 Games to Play With Your Cat|author=Jackie Strachan|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionPets|summary=Melissa Wareham was ''convinced'' that she must be adopted: how could someone like her who ''loved'' dogs have been born Cats love to parents whoplay. It is written in their DNA. From kittenhood onward, wellan innate curiosity about the world around them spurs cats to view everything as a potential plaything. For cats, wouldn't have the desire to play helps them in the house? She wasn't even that convinced when her mother produced her birth certificateto hone their hunting skills. Melissa wouldn't be able For cat owners, it provides an opportunity to have bond with a dog until she had a home of her own but in the meantime she got a job at Battersea Dogs' Home much-loved pet and it was there create special moments that she met Gusare entertaining to both cat and human alike. He wasn't in the first flush If you are stuck for ideas for games to play with your cat, or would simply like to try something new, then 50 Games To Play With Your Cat provides plenty of youth and his breath was a weapon of mass destruction, but he and Melissa bonded and when he was very poorly - he had kennel cough - she took him homeinspiration.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849418179</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill HucklesbyLeask_Miracle|title=Little Lost Hedgehog (RSPCA Fiction)Miracle: The extraordinary dog that refused to die|author=Amanda Leask

|genre=Confident ReadersPets|summary=Grace Fallon was out in Amanda Leask has been obsessed with dogs all her garden one evening, doing what she did every night - making certain that her pet rabbits were fed, watered life and safe. When she saw a movement in it's been an obsession which needs the flower bed she went to investigate world and found a baby hedgehog - or a hoglet as theylot of its attitudes to dogs to change for the better. She're correctly called. Wisely s not daunted by the obstacles: she didn't attempt s simply determined to do all that she possibly can to touch make the animal but told her parents and then kept watch from inside the houseworld a better place for dogs. When the hoglet reappeared and looked rather distressed Amanda lives with her mother rang the RSPCA husband Tobias, son Kyle and was told to give it some food - dog food more than twenty rescue and crushed dog biscuits (NEVER milk as it can make any hog very sick)sled dogs near Inverness. Very nice, you're probably thinking. Later someone from the RSPCA came round Wouldn't we all like to collect the hoglet and take it to their centre for carehave that sort of lifestyle? But hold on a minute.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407133217</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malcolm GladwellPrendergast_Train|title=Dog on a Train: The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs with ForewordSpecial Delivery|author=Kate Prendergast

|summary=I think itIt's fair one of those mornings for Boy: late out of bed he grabs at his hat and hurtles out of the house to say that youcatch his train - only he drops his hat as he goes through the door and Dog chases after him with the hat in his mouth. They head to the tube station (Dog doesn're not even going t forget to pick this book up unless you're a dog lover. If you've always yearned for a cat and shudder wait at the thought of early morning walks zebra crossing) with boy just twenty or so yards in the rain then this front, but Dog is definitely no losing ground as he has to find someone to carry him on the book for youescalator. But - if you know, or are known by a dog then itHe misses Boy's the equivalent of that massive hamper of chocolate delights train and has to a chocoholic. Only a magazine like wait for the ''New Yorker'' could raid its archives and produce such a massive compendium of humournext one, illustrations, essays, fiction, poems and cartoons about dogs, or but remembers his manners well enough to stand up so that an old lady can have a cast of writers which could put many a bookshop to shamehis seat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>043402239X</amazonuk>Will he catch up with boy when he reaches London Kings Cross?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike HenleyMattinson_Labrador|title=One Dog The Labrador Handbook: The definitive guide to training and His Mancaring for your Labrador|author=Pippa Mattinson|rating=4.5

|summary=Oberon is a Labrador In 2014 about 16% of all pedigree puppies registered with a pedigree as long as your arm the Kennel Club were Labradors - and ''One Dog and His Man'' is his story about what itthat's like living with the man he generously refers over 200 breeds to as ''The Bosschoose from. They'', about life in general and the ways re one of the world. Think of him most respected breeds and with good reason - great as the canine equivalent of the parliamentary sketch writergundogs, there to highlight brilliant in the idiosyncrasies of human life show ring and bring a gentle humour wonderful part of the family to situations which might otherwise be taken far too seriouslyboot. Before you wonder how this Author Pippa Mattinson is possible - how a dog can write a book - let me remind you that dogs are very intelligent animalszoologist and founder of The Gundog Trust. After allShe supports modern, dogs and their humans might go to what are laughingly called 'science-based dog training classes', methods - but ither passion is about helping people to enjoy their dogs. If you's the humans who are trainedre looking for advice about Labradors, not the dogsshe is going to be difficult to better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471660354</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie CollinsPerris_Dogs|title=Tricks and Games To Teach Your DogBeautiful Dogs Postcard Book: How 30 Postcards of Champion Breeds to Turn Your Much-Loved Pet into an Accomplished PerformerKeep or Send|author=Andrew Perris

|summary=Over If you're looking for a present for a lifetime of owning dogsdog lover, from Beautiful Dogs might fit the small and nippy Jack Russells to the large and loving Rhodesian Ridgebacks, I've learned that the more you do with your dog - the more you interact - the better your dog will bebill. People say that theyIt're not great conversationalists (personally I'd disagree) but they have s a tremendous willingness to please and they love to have fun with you. Sophie Collins has put together a collections book of tricks and games thirty postcards, which you can teach your dog either send or keep in the book. You might expect to find the more usual breeds - Labradors, Retrievers and they range from the ''sit''like - but instead, you''stay'' ll find more exotic breeds such as the Bedlington Terrier and ''down'' of basic training through to quite complicated tasks and agility trainingthe Bolognese. There's something there for every size just the one dog or bitch on each card and every ageAndrew Perris has managed to give us an excellent view of the animal whilst allowing it to look completely natural.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005696</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill AbramsonLaks_Gentle|title=The Puppy DiariesMy Gentle Barn: Living with a Dog Named Scout where animals heal and children learn to hope|author=Ellie Laks|rating=4.5

|summary=Jill Abramson had As a dog whom child, Ellie Laks was abused, but not only did she adored - a White West Highland by suffer at the name hands of Buddy her abuser, she also had to endure parental indifference to what was happening to her. Her only relief came through animals - and after his death even then she wasn't certain that she wanted another doghad to cope when the animals were taken from her. Would As an adult, she bond with the newcomer? Would discovered that she always be comparing the pup with his predecessor? But - times change had a real talent for healing animals - and in 2009 Jill and that they helped her husband Henry brought home to heal too. In a Golden Retriever by brilliant leap of intuition, she realised that if the name of Scout. Over animals could help her to heal they could do the following year Abramson wrote a column about raising Scout same for the New York Times website others and it's this column which forms so the basis for 'The Puppy Diaries: Living With Gentle Barn was born - a place where animals were brought as a Dog Named Scout'place of safety and where disadvantaged children and special needs groups could use as therapy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444720635</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon BarnesMattinson_Happy|title=How The Happy Puppy Handbook: Your Definitive Guide to be a BAD BirdwatcherPuppy Care and Early Training|author=Pippa Mattinson

|genre=Home and FamilyPets|summary=''Look out Unfortunately far too many people acquire puppies because of the windowaww... 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 that bringing a puppy into your home - into your life - requires about the same level of planning as moving home and the best guide which I''<br>''See ve seen to preparing for a birdpuppy and the early stages of living with one is Pippa Mattinson''<br>''Enjoy s The Happy Puppy Handbook. Do get itwell in advance.If you''<br>''Congratulations. You are now re only thinking about getting a puppy it might even put you off - but then it will be well worth the cover price if it saves you a birdwatchergreat deal of expense and even more heartache.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780720866</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffrey MassonRosenfelt_Puppy|title=Dogs Never Lie About LoveThe Puppy Express: Why Your Dog Will Always Love You More Than Anyone ElseOn the road with 25 rescue dogs . . . what could go wrong?|author=David Rosenfelt|rating=34.5

|summary=Readers come to books for strange reasons but I donIf you't think re moving home from Southern California with twenty-five rescue dogs how, exactly, do you do it? Add in that Ithese are mostly elderly dogs who've ever before picked up a book, looked at the title already had too much change and trauma in their lives and being intrigued not by what was suggested but by how anyone could think differently. it'Dogs Never Lie About Loves obvious that crating them and flying them across the country isn' is a statement of the obvious t going to mework. IThey couldn've lived t all go together and the trip would take about twenty-four hours with all the changes - and around dogs for most of my life and I know that dogs are incapable of pretence's before you even begin to think about the prohibitive cost. I've never met In the end, the answer was a dog I couldn't trust: if it doesn't like meconvoy of three motorhomes, it will tell me so straight away. It will not attempt to trick me. I only wish that I could say the same addition of nine helpers and just about most of non-stop driving across the humans I encountercontinent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099740613</amazonuk>Fun, eh?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David CavillMorris_Iamcat|title=Canine PerspectivesI am Cat (mini edition)|author=Jackie Morris|rating=34

|summary=David Cavill has spent much of his adult life around dogs, with You're always supposed to tell when a dog is dreaming – the twitching limbs and jerking joints allegedly proving the sleeping Fido is imagining himself on the Finnish Spitz holding a special place in his heartchase. Amongst other things - he was founder of the Animal Care CollegeCats are, worked as always, a senior manager at Battersea Dogs' Homebit more secretive, judging and advising on but Jackie Morris offers evidence here that they are more or less thinking the same thing – even the selectiondomestic moggy, care curled up and training of pedigree and mongrel dogs - he wrote closed in, is picturing a regular column for ''Our Dogs'' newspaper and ''Dogs Monthly''different self – one sleeking through snows, relaxing on the savannah or alertly moving through its territory. It's these and other articles which are reproduced here and as there's a time span very pleasant view into the mindset of fifteen years they allow the reader to see what has changed and - probably more importantly - what hasn'tcats.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468104780</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam HayKatz_Dog|title=Archie the Guide The Dog Puppy: Hero in TrainingNobody Loved|author=Jon Katz|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionPets|summary=I donWhen we first meet Jon Katz he't often pick up s not in a nongood place: his marriage of thirty-fiction book for the 7+ age group, find it riveting reading five years was breaking up and informative about he was close to a subject with which Inervous breakdown. He didn't need any more problems. He particularly 'm already familiar, but that was the case with 'didn'Archie: Hero in Trainingt''. Archie is a puppy destined to be need a guide young rescue dog for , a blind person and he's just one story in a book about the pups-in-training, the working dogsRottweiler/Shepherd mix, the adults who have guide dogs'd been living wild, or struggle to learn contend with and to upset the fragile equilibrium of the techniques - or even what happens 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 dogs who don't turn out to be what's neededcentre of this conundrum. There's a full range as well as information about what a guide dog costs Katz was spectacularly disconnected from the world - and it's not cheap!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033053792X</amazonuk>Maria was the only person to whom he seemed able to talk, but to connect with Maria he had to connect with Frieda too.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt WhymanCoren_Dogs|title=Pig in the MiddleDo Dogs Dream?: Nearly Everything Your Dog Wants You to Know|author=Stanley Coren

|summary=I'm so pleased I read If you love dogs this bookis an absolute gem. It's only the occasional writer who grabs me by the short and curlies with his observation of human nature, but accomplished childrennot going to explain to you how to feed or train your dog. There's writer Matt Whyman not only grabbed me, but sold me no advice on first aid or when you should seek advice from the minivet. What you get are seventy-pigs as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444711466</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gordon Grice|title=The Book of Deadly Animals|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Animals and humans have long mixedtwo essays on subjects which dog lovers ponder on, even though the each one has almost always proven capable of being lethal to just two or three pages long and written in terms which the otherlayman can understand. Many scientists in I've opened the past decided animals killing humans were aberrant, book at random and that the real animal knew it was second best to humansfound ''Why Do Dogs Touch Noses?'', having been saved ''Do Dogs Recognize Themselves in the Ark, a Mirror?'' and respected our dominion over them. Even now, it seems, there are opinions that creatures attacking mankind are somehow rogue and need destroying. But where is the wrong ''Why Do Puppies Sleep in an animal behaving as its nature compels ita Pile? '' Similarly, the human wandering around the wilderness, or even the idiot woman feeding a black bear her own toddlerThere's honey-dripping hand (true story - what nothing there that you absolutely ''have'' to know so that you can keep a dog as he should be kept but by the bear thought of the taste of honeyed fingers we dontime that you't ve finished you will know) is just the same in reverse - humans behaving as only humans canhim a lot better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919675</amazonuk>