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Four Paws, Five Directions: A Guide to Chinese Medicine for Cats and Dogs

Four Paws, Five Directions: A Guide to Chinese Medicine for Cats and Dogs

For the growing number of animal lovers seeking an alternative to Western medicine, this comprehensive approach to home animal care includes descriptions of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine treatments, with special emphasis placed on clear, uncomplicated approaches to acupressure and diet that readers can do themselves at home. Includes two 16-page color inserts. Four Paws, [...]

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Search and Rescue Dogs: Training the K-9 Hero, Second Edition

Search and Rescue Dogs: Training the K-9 Hero, Second Edition

“…the techniques and the case studies here are so interesting that a read will prove rewarding to ordinary trainers and fanciers alike.” —Publishers Weekly From the devastation of the World Trade Center to earthquakes in Central Asia, search and rescue dogs have proven invaluable in helping to find victims of disasters, whether man-made or natural. [...]

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Izzy & Lenore: Two Dogs, an Unexpected Journey, and Me

Izzy & Lenore: Two Dogs, an Unexpected Journey, and Me

In this wonderful book, Jon Katz, the owner of Bedlam Farm, learns once again about the unexpected places animals can take us. As trained hospice volunteers visiting homes and nursing facilities in upstate New York, Katz and his affectionate and intuitive border collie Izzy bring comfort and canine companionship to people who most need it. [...]

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Through a Dog’s Ear: Using Sound to Improve the Health & Behavior of Your Canine Companion

Through a Dog’s Ear: Using Sound to Improve the Health & Behavior of Your Canine Companion

You know that your dog’s hearing is very sensitive–so how do you create an environment of sound that suits your canine companion’s specific needs? Now psychoacoustic expert Joshua Leeds and veterinary neurologist Susan Wagner provide the answer with Through a Dog’s Ear: simple sound-based solutions to help your dog live a longer, happier, and healthier [...]

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Through a Dog’s Ear: Music to Calm Your Canine Companion, Volume 1

Through a Dog’s Ear: Music to Calm Your Canine Companion, Volume 1

Music can soothe the savage beast¿including your dog! Millions of dog guardians have grappled with behavior problems caused by their dog’s anxiety from fits of barking when their beagle is left home alone to the nervous whimpering of their dachshund during a thunderstorm. Now, psychoacoustic expert Joshua Leeds joins concert pianist Lisa Spector and veterinary [...]

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Natural Nutrition for Dogs and Cats

Natural Nutrition for Dogs and Cats

This book will help pet-lovers enable their dogs and cats to enjoy an ideal quality of life though a species appropriate diet of raw, natural foods. Natural Nutrition for Dogs and Cats

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Afield: American Writers on Bird Dogs

Afield: American Writers on Bird Dogs

Jim Harrison, Tom McGuane, Richard Ford, Tom Brokaw, and more, share stories of hunting with man’s best friend. This marvelous collection features stories from some of America’s finest and most respected writers about every outdoorsman’s favorite and most loyal hunting partner: his dog. For the first time, the stories of acclaimed writers such as Richard [...]

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Raw & Natural Nutrition for Dogs: The Definitive Guide to Homemade Meals

Raw & Natural Nutrition for Dogs: The Definitive Guide to Homemade Meals

***The first guide to both raw feeding and healthy homecooked meals for dogs. In the whirlwind of information about local, organic, and whole foods, it’s easy to forget that our canine companions can also benefit from—and deserve—a more natural and nurturing diet. Preparing Fido’s food at home may seem daunting, but it’s really not, says [...]

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Control of Canine Genetic Diseases

Control of Canine Genetic Diseases

If you breed dogs for any reason, you must own this book. Genetic diseases are among the most serious hazards on the landscape of modern dog breeding and one of the most vexing challenges facing today’s dog breeders. Is it appropriate to open the gene pool to unwanted conditions in the pursuit of physical perfection, [...]

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The Dog Whisperer Presents – Good Habits for Great Dogs: A Positive Approach to Solving Problems for Puppies and Dogs

The Dog Whisperer Presents – Good Habits for Great Dogs: A Positive Approach to Solving Problems for Puppies and Dogs

Following the success of his books The Dog Whisperer, 2nd Edition and The Puppy Whisperer, Paul Owens introduces a groundbreaking new approach to addressing and solving specific problem behaviors–and encouraging great ones–in his newest book. Encompassing the author’s nonviolent, positive training methods, this guide is a shortcut in the training process as it uses the [...]

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Why Do Dogs Drink Out of the Toilet?: 101 of the Most Perplexing Questions Answered About Canine Conundrums, Medical Mysteries and Befuddling Behaviors

Why Do Dogs Drink Out of the Toilet?: 101 of the Most Perplexing Questions Answered About Canine Conundrums, Medical Mysteries and Befuddling Behaviors

Because They’re Dogs! That’s why dogs drink out of the toilet. That’s why they bark when you’re on the phone, smell each other’s behinds, go crazy when they see the letter carrier, jump up to say hello and roll in stuff that stinks. Everything they do makes perfect canine sense to dogs. And after you [...]

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Woman’s Best Friend: Women Writers on the Dogs in Their Lives

Woman’s Best Friend: Women Writers on the Dogs in Their Lives

They may be known as man’s best friend, but as the writers in this poignant, funny, and dramatic collection know, there’s no gender divide when it comes to canines. Whether walking down the street, gathering at the dog park, hitting the open road, or spending one too many nights together on the couch in front [...]

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Veterinarians Guide to Natural Remedies for Dogs : Safe and Effective Alternative Treatments and Healing Techniques from the Nations Top Holistic Veterinarians

Veterinarians Guide to Natural Remedies for Dogs : Safe and Effective Alternative Treatments and Healing Techniques from the Nations Top Holistic Veterinarians

The world of veterinary medicine is changing. People are realizing that if alternative medicine is better for them, it’s better for their pets, too. Dogs are visiting acupuncturists, chiropractic doctors, and homeopaths. Still, many dog owners are unaware that such simple measures as changing their pet’s diet and using vitamins, herbs, and other natural cures [...]

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The Dog Who Loved Too Much: Tales, Treatments and the Psychology of Dogs

The Dog Who Loved Too Much: Tales, Treatments and the Psychology of Dogs

Do you have a problem pooch? What do you do with a dog who attacks the telephone whenever it rings? Or one who chases imaginary rabbits down imaginary holes? Or one who is terrified of microblinds…or turns into Cujo every time company arrives? In this warm, compassionate, entertaining, and very informative book, Dr. Nicholas Dodman, [...]

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An Eye for a Dog: Illustrated Guide to Judging Purebred Dogs

An Eye for a Dog: Illustrated Guide to Judging Purebred Dogs

With this book you can develop your own eye for sound movement and structure. You get to actively participate in over 100 judging scenarios similar to what a judge encounters in the show ring and compare your opinion with the author’s. Winner of the DWAA Maxwell Award for 2004 Best Reference Book! Have you ever [...]

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