After a particularly grisly canine search-and-rescue mission led to a struggle with PTSD, Susannah Charleson credits her healing to her partnership with search dog Puzzle. Inspired by that experience and having met dogs formally trained to assist in such crises, Charleson learns to identify abandoned dogs with service potential, and to train them for work beside hurting partners, to whom these second-chance dogs bring intelligence, comfort, and hope....

Describes the job scat-detection dogs do, what makes a good scat-detection dog, and the places they work.

Explains dog behavior and suggests how to develop a rewarding relationship with your dog, discussing all the steps from selecting the right puppy to showing the dog and getting veterinary care.

Over fifty activities and crafts and dozens of sidebars teach young children how to take care of their dogs while fostering a deep, long-lasting bond betwen child and dog.

After performing endless tricks and futile searches, a treat-obsessed little dog finally makes a tasty discovery.

Barkus is a large and very smart dog who comes to live with seven-year-old Nicky when Nicky's Uncle Everton goes traveling--and soon he is a family and school favorite.

Emily Elizabeth loves her huge dog Clifford even though he's far from perfect.

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Free dog Johannes' job is to observe everything that happens in his urban park and report back to the park's three bison elders, but changes are afoot, including more humans, a new building, a boatload of goats, and a shocking revelation that changes his view of the world.

Chaos might ensue if you were to give a dog a donut.