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A New Owner's Guide to Papillons' is an ideal reference for both those considering Papillons as a pet and existing Papillon owners.
Due to today's changing lifestyles, small dogs are growing in popularity: six of the top ten breeds are registered by the American Kennel Club are in the Toy Group. This book offers solutions to the many special challenges that small dog owners face when training their dogs and helps them to enjoy living with their pint sized pooches.
Fifteen to twenty percent of dogs are born with a tendency towards introversion and fearfulness, leading to behaviors like uncontrolled submissive urination, fear-aggression, and inability to bond with humans. With understanding and the right training, fearful dogs need not be condemned as bad pets; rather, they can become some of the happiest and most deeply bonded dogs around—the epitome of great pets.
When first-time author and artist Deborah Paris stepped into Lennox Woods, an old-growth southern hardwood forest in northeast Texas, she felt a disruption that was both spatial and temporal. Walking the remnants of an old wagon trail past ancient stands of pine, white oak, elm, hickory, sweetgum, maple, hornbeam, and red oak, she felt drawn into a reverie that took her back to “the beginning, both physically and metaphorically.” Painting the Woods: Nature, Memory and Metaphor explores the experience of landscape through the lens of art and art-making. It is a place-based meditation on nature, art, memory, and time, grounded in Paris’s experiences over the course of a year in Lennox Wo...
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The Tao of Bow Wow is not just any dog training book. Part how-to, part primer in the ways of Tao, this unique guide to training and understanding your dog will revolutionize the way owners view their dogs. Not only does veteran dog trainer Deborah Wood explain how the principles of Tao can be used to train your dog in a clear, prescriptive fashion, but she also shows owners how to better communicate with and relate to their dogs using these same principles. Included in this companion designed for easy reference are: Quick simple instructions for teaching the essential commands for a dog's safety and well-being: sit, stay, heel, down, come and stand. The best (and the worst) games to play with your dogs. Dog Qi, true telepathic communication between you and your dog How to use meditation, massage, and exercise to achieve true peaceful companionship The Tao of Bow Wow is an essential guide for any animal lover seeking to have a truly profound and joyful relationship with their dog.
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Originally bred to hunt small game, the modern day Yorkshire terrier has evolved into a beloved companion animal. Providing a wealth of information which relates specifically to the breed, this book covers all the key topics that Yorkshire terrier owners need to consider.
An Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel “Dark and dangerous and strange and wonderful...Kennedy writes with the gritty poetry of Daniel Woodrell and misfit sensibility of Flannery O’Connor.” —Benjamin Percy Deborah Kennedy tells the story of a five-year old girl who goes missing in a small town, a place where everyone knows something different about her disappearance and about each other. Five-year-old Daisy Gonzalez’s father is always waiting for her at the bus stop. But today, he isn’t, and Daisy disappears. When Daisy goes missing, nearly everyone in town suspects or knows something different about what happened. And they also know a lot about each other. The immigrants wh...