Category: Pets Books
Why Dogs Are Better Than Cats
Some pairings are just meant to be: peanut butter and chocolate, yin and yang, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. So it was only a matter of time before the stars in the universe lined up and suggested the collaboration between New York Times best selling author Bradley Trevor Greive and award-winning photographer Rachael Hale. Teaming [...]
Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust
ETERNAL TREBLINKA: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust, by Charles Patterson, Ph.D., describes disturbing parallels between how the Nazis treated their victims and how modern society treats animals. The title is taken from the Yiddish writer and Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, himself a vegetarian: “In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for [...]
The Amazing Power of Animals
Gordon Smith is renowned for delivering powerful messages to people from their loved ones on the Other Side. But very often it’s not just human friends and family members who come through—the animals that have been so close to us in life also continue to visit us after death. There have been many times when [...]
One at a Time: A Week in an American Animal Shelter
Over half the households in America include an animal companion. Yet behind this immense love of animals lies an equally immense tragedy: each year, community animal shelters take in eight to twelve million lost and unwanted dogs and cats who face an uncertain fate. One at a Time: A Week in an American Animal Shelter [...]
Pet Sitting for Profit
It’s estimated that professional pet sitters serve a million clients annually, and demand for their services is growing rapidly. Updated and expanded for today’s entrepreneurs, Pet Sitting for Profit, Third Edition covers all the fundamentals of starting and operating a pet-sitting business. It addresses new challenges and concerns faced by novice and experienced pet sitters [...]
Pretty Pet-Friendly: Easy Ways to Keep Spot’s Digs Stylish & Spotless
This book aims to help readers live well with their pets, creating a harmonious environment in which both animals and humans are happy. It will walk readers through each area of the home, from the kitchen to the backyard to the bedroom, providing practical advice and helpful how-tos for keeping things neat, pet-friendly, and still [...]
Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food
The commercial pet food industry has a secret to hide — and Ann Martin wants to make sure you know it. Her research reveals some startling facts: that the pet food industry conducts animal testing in order to improve their product, and includes euthanized cats and dogs in the mix to heighten protein content. In [...]
Irreconcilable Differences: The Battle for the Heart & Soul of America’s Animal Shelters
The battle lines have been drawn: No Kill advocates on one side. Those who kill sheltered animals on the other. Can’t we all just get along? Irreconcilable Differences says we can’t because shelters act in ways which are the antithesis of the values most Americans hold dear. We are a nation of animal lovers. But [...]
All My Patients Have Tales: Favorite Stories from a Vet’s Practice
All My Patients Have Tales is a heartwarming and funny collection of stories by a dedicated veterinarian featuring wild horses, porcupine-quill-covered dogs, male cats in labor, an extremely ornery pygmy donkey, an enormous hog, as well as many other domestic, and not so “domestic” animals. Wells begins his work as an inexperienced recent college grad [...]
Guardians of Being
From bestselling author and visionary Eckhart Tolle comes this wonderful, enlightening and inspiring work on the importance of dogs and cats not just as pets, but as guides, guardians and beloved friends. Richly illustrated by Patrick McDonnell, creator of Mutts, “Guardians of Being” shows us that not only can we rely on our pets to [...]
Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
How can we give animals the best life– for them? What does an animal need to be happy? In her groundbreaking, best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her experience as an animal scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into how animals think, act, and feel. [...]
