HOWTOWALKADOGBYMIKEWHITE
Mike White began walking his SPCA-rescue huntaway, Cooper, ten years ago, and since then has become part of a remarkable community of people and their pets. You will laugh, you will cry, and you will learn some of the secrets of living with a dog.
All good things must come to an end sometime.
Dogs bring pleasure to their owners in many ways. It seems that that is not the full story.
A celebration of the many and varied ways that we play with our dogs.
When our pet's life is in jeopardy we come to truly understand just how much we care for our special animals.
Have you heard the one about the doctor who "cured" a patient's on-going back pain by prescribing "a dog"?
When we consider individual "personality" traits in our pets the quotes that spring to mind may well be along the lines of "If Dogs have owners; then Cats have staff", or perhaps the more nuanced, "If Dogs come when called; Cats take a message and get back to you".
Fair weather or foul, your dog needs to be walked. The sharing of this particular "burden" seems to create a bond between dog owners.
Dogs that regularly visit the dog park get to make canine buddies, their owners it seems mimic the behaviour.
Coming up with a name for your child can be a bit of a "head scratcher", it turns out it's not much easier with dogs.
Unsurprisingly this book is about dogs, how we care for and interact with them, but what is perhaps most interesting about it is the picture of community and real human connection that it paints.