Books for pet lovers
If you're looking for good advice, or even just pretty pics of pets, here are some recommended reads.
• Complete Care for your Aging Cat, Complete Care for your Aging Dog (New American Library, 2003) by Amy D. Shojai. These easy-to-read guides include information and advice about health conditions that cats and dogs can develop with age, as well as anecdotes from pet owners about coping with their aging pets.
• Patricia B. McConnell, an applied animal behaviourist and dog trainer, explains how dogs might interpret our behaviour in The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs (Ballantine, 2002). Dogs send us signals all the time, but we often don't understand what they're communicating. This informative and fun book, which lets us see ourselves from the dog's point of view, attempts to bridge the species gap.
• Pets are not always a welcome sight in gardens, but they are in these books: Cats in Their Gardens and Dogs in Their Gardens (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, distributed in Canada by Canadian Media Group, 2002). Writer-photographer Page Dickey takes us on a tour of beautiful (and often famously owned) gardens all sharing one feature: cats or dogs who call the gardens home.
• Moderndog magazine is a Canadian magazine for trendy urban dogs and their human fashion hounds. Articles range from advice on behaviour to cool doggy fashions. For more information, visit www.moderndog.ca.
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