Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology
By Caroline Paul
Paul’s cat, Tibby, goes missing during Paul’s recovery from a plane crash. Desperate to find her pet, she hires a pet psychic and a pet detective with no results until Tibby waltzes back home a few weeks later healthy and happy. This book documents the author’s attempts to retrace Tibby’s journey using GPS technology, cat cameras and flyers.
A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life From an Unlikely Teacher
By Sue Halpern
A layabout mutt turned therapy dog leads her owner to a new understanding of the good life. With her daughter leaving home and her husband on the road, Halpern decides to give herself and Pransky, her Labradoodle, a new lease on life by getting certified as a therapy dog team.
Dogtripping: 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, and 3 RVs on Our Canine Cross-Country Adventure
By David Rosenfelt
Mystery writer Rosenfelt’s Dogtripping is moving and funny account of a cross-country move from California to Maine and the beginnings of a dog rescue foundation. While moving his family, Rosenfelt thought he had prepared for everything, but traveling with 25 dogs turned out to be a bigger ordeal than he anticipated. Rosenfelt recounts the adventure of moving his animal companions across the United States with humor and warmth.
My Animals and Other Family
by Clare Balding
Balding’s father was a champion horse trainer, and her family shared their lives with more than 100 thoroughbred racehorses and an ever-present pack of dogs. Balding ranked low in the family pecking order – below her brother and the horses. Left to her own devices, she had to learn life’s toughest lessons through the animals.
The Possibility Dogs: What a Handful of “Unadoptables” Taught Me About Service, Hope, and Healing
By Susannah Charleson
In a uniquely personal, moving and inspiring journey into the rapidly emerging world of psychiatric service dogs, Charleson works as an evaluator in shelters, plucking unwanted dogs – big and small – and training them for this unique kind of service and matching them with people in need.
