Nonfiction for Dog Lovers

Dog is My Co-Pilot (636.7 Dog)
Here is a collection of essays, short stories and commentaries that explores every aspect of life with dogs. The book is edited by the co-founders of the hip dog magazine called "The Bark."

Better Food for Dogs: A Complete Cookbook and Nutrition Guide by Jennifer Ashton (636.7 Ashto)
Discusses a wide-ranging number of topics and provides vital information for your pet's health.

How Dogs Think: Understanding the Canine Mind by Stanley Coren (636.7 Coren)
Coren (psychology, U. of British Columbia) has written many books on dogs and dog-human interaction and speaks publicly through the media on this popular subject. Here he writes for a general, but serious-minded audience, balancing factual information with anecdotes, speculation and analysis of various misconceptions to discuss canine intellect, sensory apparatus, emotions, personality traits and social consciousness.

Throw Me a Bone: 50 Healthy Canine Taste-Tested Recipes for Snacks, Meals and Treats by Cooper Gillespie (636.7 Gille)
This guide to cooking healthy, tasty food for man's best friend – with 50 recipes and illustrated with 50 photos and drawings – is by Cooper Gillespie, bestselling author Susan Orlean's dog, with recipes by Sally Sampson.

The Dog Who Rescues Cats: The True Story of Ginny by Philip Gonzalez (818 Gon)
Here is the best-selling story of Ginny, an adopted mixed-breed dog whose extraordinary ability to rescue stray cats propelled her to national stardom.

The Blessing of the Animals: True Stories of Ginny, the Dog Who Rescues Cats by Philip Gonzalez (818 Gon)
The Blessing of the Animals lets fans catch up on Ginny's latest adventures. Her newfound fame hasn't diminished her selfless devotion to her feline friends. Since the publication of her first book, she's carried out some of her most incredible rescues yet.

Dear Kilroy: A Dog to Guide Us by Nora Vitz Harrison (636.7 Harri)
From a puppy raiser for Guide Dogs for the Blind comes an inspirational look at how dogs reflect our human values and bring joy to our lives.

A Dog Year: Twelve Months, Four Dogs and Me by Jon Katz (636.7 Katz)
When his calm and gentle yellow labs were 6 and 7, a breeder contacted Katz to say she had another dog that was meant for him. The dog was a 2-year-old border collie named Devon, very intelligent, but high-strung and homeless. Devon proved to be quite a handful, as different from the author's other two dogs as night and day.

The Dogs of Bedlam Farms by Jon Katz (636.7 Katz)
Katz, whose books A Dog Year and Running to the Mountain earned him many faithful, dog-loving readers, here channels James Herriott's brand of agricultural humanism. It's a classic setup for amusing anecdotes: a 50-something "suburban rookie" buys a farm in upstate New York, stocking it with three border collies and a small herd of sheep. While there's no deeply surprising insight into human nature nor any particularly revealing information about canine behavior, these stories offer readers a potent stew of triumphs and failures, all tied together by the constancy of complicated, joyful, lovable dogs.

The New Work of Dogs: Tending to Life, Love and Family by Jon Katz (636.7 Katz)
The New Work of Dogs combines compelling personal narratives with a penetrating look at the emotional landscape of a community and in so doing asks whether the evolution in the human/canine relationship is a good thing for both species.

Adoptable Dog: Teaching Your Adopted Pet to Obey, Trust and Love You by John Ross and Barbara McKinney (636.7 Ross)
Every year approximately 2.5 million dogs are adopted from shelters. Many of them are older dogs with behavioral problems, including housebreaking accidents, excessive barking, biting, mouthing, separation anxiety and the scars of abuse. Professional dog trainers Ross and McKinney (Dog Talk; Puppy Preschool) have written a comprehensive and comprehensible guide for the lay reader who wants to turn the adopted shelter dog into a well-behaved family pet.

Ghost Dogs of the South by Randy Russell (398.2 Russe)
Here are 20 tales from 12 Southern states which explore the strong relationship between dogs and people. Stories range from a dog who warned coal miners of impending disasters to a dog who granted wishes to anyone who rubbed his tummy.

The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men In a Race Against an Epidemic by Gay Salisbury (614.5 Salis)
It is Alaska in 1925 and diphtheria serum is 674 miles away. Without it the people of Nome will not survive. Sled dogs and men brave blizzard conditions to save them in this adventure told here for the first time.

Conversations With My Dog by Zig Ziglar (248.84 Zigla)
Most people talk to their pets (some people even talk to their plants), but Zig Ziglar does more than just talk to his dog. He has conversations with her. Taffy is Zig's little Welsh Corgi. They decided (collectively) it was time to write a book.

Lots of Pictures

Our Dogs (636.7 Our)
This celebration of canine companionship includes pieces by Rick Bass, Jane Smiley and Doug Marlette, along with more than 100 color and black-and-white photos.

The New Yorker Book of Dog Cartoons (741.5 New)
Every dog has his or her day, but nowhere more gleefully or more mischievously than in these 101 funny cartoons culled from the pages of "The New Yorker" over the past 65 years. Cartoonists include Addams, Thurber, Arno, Steinberg and others who give the magazine's cartoons their special flavor.

Southern Dogs & Their People (635.7 South)
The photography of P.S. Davis is paired with quotations from great Southern writers in this tribute to Southerners and their dogs.

The New Encyclopedia of the Dog by Bruce Fogle (636.7 Fogle)
New edition of an illustrated resource that presents detailed descriptions of about 420 breeds and varieties of dogs from around the world.