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Training the Best Dog Ever relies on trust and treats, not choke collars; on bonding, not leash-yanking or reprimanding. The five-week training program takes only 10 to 20 minutes of practice a day and works both for puppies and for adult dogs that need to be trained out of bad habits. Be sure to check out DogHeirs’ section “Dog Care” for more tips and videos for training your dog.
Christian Vieler is a photographer from Waltrop, Germany who loves to take photos of dogs trying to catch treats. He captures the dogs just as the treats streak in front of their faces and they lunge for it and the results are unexpectedly hilarious. The dogs’ expressions range from anticipation, to confusion, to downright funny!
Take a closer look at his photos in this article: Photos Capture Goofy Dogs As They Try To Catch Treats
Christian Vieler is a photographer from Waltrop, Germany who loves to take photos of dogs trying to catch treats. He captures the dogs just as the treats streak in front of their faces and they lunge for it and the results are unexpectedly hilarious. The dogs’ expressions range from anticipation, to confusion, to downright funny!
Take a closer look at his photos in this article: Photos Capture Goofy Dogs As They Try To Catch Treats
A heartwarming memoir by the Jack Russell Terrier that starred in The Artist and Water for Elephants.
Uggie’s memoir offers readers the true rags-to-riches tale of one ordinary Jack Russell Terrier who made it big in Hollywood.
For the first time, Uggie tells his story of rising from humble beginnings as an abandoned shelter dog to being adopted by esteemed trainer Omar Von Muller. Uggie details his time starring in commercials for everything from Kia cars to Bud Light.
Uggie eventually broke into the film world with his appearance in Mr. Fixit in 2006. He went on to appear in Wassup Rockers and Life is Ruff. Uggie got his first serious film role in 2011’s Water for Elephants where he starred alongside Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson. It was not, however, until 2012’s The Artist that Uggie really dazzled audiences with his talents. In his memoir, Uggie will talk about life on the set of the Oscar-winning film and the role that many said should have earned him an Oscar.
Uggie’s memoir doesn’t just hit on his career highlights, it also takes a candid look at his his private demons: overcoming a painful past as a cat-murderer and finding redemption; living with shaking syndrome; his regret at never siring any pups before being neutered.
Uggie’s memoir will include not just biographical information, but also advice from the dog himself. As is seen in his dazzling performance in The Artist, Uggie is an incredibly talented performer. He honed his craft while touring South America each year as part of The Incredible Dog Show, and in his memoir, he will spend several chapters sharing practical training and dieting tips that he has developed over the years.
There’s something so lovable and goofy about a dog upside down, that you can’t help but smile. That’s what photographer Serena Hodson thought and decided to take a whole series of photos of upside down dogs!
The Australian photographer explains how her concept originated saying, “Upside Down Dogs began with a simple idea – to capture the delight and joy of dogs in an upside down pose.”
Read more about Serena and view more of her awesome photos in our article: Photographer Captures All the Goofiness and Joy of Dogs Lying Upside Down
A dog is an ideal workout partner: always supportive, happy to go for a walk and never judgmental. The human-companion animal bond is a great way to help you and your dog lose weight or stay fit. When people and dogs exercise together, fitness and health happen on both ends of the leash. As the obesity epidemic spreads, 70% of Americans and 50% of dogs are overweight or obese, resulting in staggering health care costs and suffering. The causes, consequences, and treatment for overweight and obesity are strikingly similar in people and dogs.
Walk a Hound, Lose a Pound, written by an expert veterinary surgeon and a leading nurse researcher, helps you move from a food-centered relationship with dogs, to an exercise-centered relationship. Even better, you don’t have to own a dog! The book gives several creative suggestions to exercise or walk a dog even if you do not or cannot have one. This volume is designed for dog lovers, dog owners and families.
Based on the latest scientific findings, it will also help professionals (including physicians, veterinarians, and physical therapists) fight obesity and promote fitness in both people and pets. Dog-walking programs can easily be implemented in neighborhoods, parks, workplaces, animal shelters, hospitals, retirement homes and obesity clinics, and this book shows you how to establish them. In nearly every health care profession, practitioners are teaching human patients and dog owners on a daily basis about the risks of obesity. Never has there been a more compelling time for innovative approaches to increasing physical activity, reforming sedentary lifestyles, and enhancing fitness.
Walk a Hound, Lose a Pound provides specific strategies for people and dogs to exercise together, lose weight together, and have fun in the process.
WEREWOLF: The True Story of an Extraordinary Police Dog is the raw, first-hand account of the life of a police K9 named “Brag” and his cop partner. When they first meet, Brag shows no interest in human attachment and his handler is wary of caring too much for a dog whose life he must risk every night. But as the dangerous manhunts push both to their mental and physical limits, the two develop an unbreakable bond that blurs the line between human and canine.
Anyone who has ever loved a dog will embrace this heartfelt story of courage and loyalty!
From Dr. Kwane Stewart, CNN’s Hero of the Year for 2023.
Mountains Beyond Mountains meets Tattoos On the Heart in this unforgettable, powerful, and stunningly-told memoir of a struggling veterinarian saving animals and humans on the streets of California – and how he discovered what bonds all living creatures.
Dr. Kwane Stewart was questioning his career as a veterinarian when he saw a homeless man with a flea-infested dog outside of a convenience store. In a moment of spontaneous generosity, he offered to examine the dog and treat him for free. It was the first step in a now nine-year journey that has taken Dr. Kwane from Skid Row to San Francisco and beyond to care for pets and their humans who are living on the streets, a journey that would redefine the powerful human-animal bond.
In What It Takes to Save a Life, Dr. Kwane shows how our four-legged, feathered, scaled, and swimming family members―these dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, and other animals that live side by side with us―provide more than companionship. They offer essential love, hope, and a sense of security.
Written with striking honesty and rich detail, Dr. Kwane looks back on his childhood, how he discovered his appreciation for animals and his calling, and offers a frank assessment of the mental health crisis in veterinary medicine today, where compassion fatigue, burnout, and suicide are facts of life. Full of warm and inspiring stories of human-animal relationships, this powerful and eye-opening book is a reminder that we are all members of a wider family. It is also a clarion call for each of us to help those in need―especially our most vulnerable brothers and sisters―and the animals who are their families. Wise and warm, Dr. Stewart’s uplifting nonfiction story is a reminder that one life can make an immeasurable difference.
This unforgettable veterinarian memoir is a testament to second chances―for animals and people alike.
The Street Vet: Follow Dr. Kwane from Skid Row to San Francisco as he provides critical, free care to the pets of the unhoused, discovering hope on the streets of California.
Compassion Fatigue: An unflinching look at the burnout, depression, and mental health challenges facing the veterinary community, told from a place of raw honesty and experience.
Inspirational Memoir: The moving, true story of how a man on the brink of leaving his profession found his true calling by helping the most vulnerable animals and their humans.
Second Chances: A powerful reminder that it’s never too late to find a new purpose, and that saving an animal can sometimes be the first step to saving yourself.
Do dogs have feelings similar to humans? Scientist Gregory Berns has been studying the brains of dogs for several years by taking MRI brain scans of dogs. his findings have lead him to the conclusion “dogs are people, too.”
Read more about Dr. Berns’ research finding in this article: Dogs Are People Too Says Neuroscientist
*An Instant New York Times Bestseller!*
A memoir of love and loss, of being in the right place at the right time, and of the mysterious ways a beloved pet can bring people together, from CBS Sunday Morning News correspondent and multi-Emmy-Award-winning Martha Teichner.
There are true fairy tales. Stories that exist because impossible-to-explain coincidences change everything. Except in real life, not all of them have conventional, happily-ever-after endings. When Harry Met Minnie is that kind of fairy tale, with the vibrant, romantic New York City backdrop of its namesake, the movie When Harry Met Sally, and the bittersweet wisdom of Tuesdays with Morrie.
There’s a special camaraderie among early-morning dog walkers. Gathering at dog runs in the park, or strolling through the farmer’s market at Union Square before the bustling crowd appears, fellow pet owners become familiar–as do the personalities of their beloved animals. In this special space and time, a chance encounter with an old acquaintance changed Martha Teichner’s world. As fate would have it, her friend knew someone who was dying of cancer, from exposure to toxins after 9/11, and desperate to find a home for her dog, Harry. He was a Bull Terrier―the same breed as Martha’s dear Minnie. Would Martha consider giving Harry a safe, loving new home?
In short order, boy dog meets girl dog, the fairy tale part of this story. But there is so much more to this book. After Martha agrees to meet Harry and his owner Carol, what begins as a transaction involving a dog becomes a deep and meaningful friendship between two women with complicated lives and a love of Bull Terriers in common. Through the heartbreak and grief of Carol’s illness, the bond that develops changed Martha’s life, Carol’s life, Minnie’s life, Harry’s life. As it changed Carol’s death as well.
In this rich and touching narrative, Martha considers the ways our stories are shaped by the people we meet, and the profound love we can find by opening our hearts to unexpected encounters.
In Your Dog Is Your Mirror, dog trainer Kevin Behan proposes a radical new model for understanding canine behavior: a dog’s behavior and emotion, indeed its very cognition, are driven by our emotion. The dog doesn’t respond to what the owner thinks, says, or does; it responds to what the owner feels. And in this way, dogs can actually put people back in touch with their own emotions. Behan demonstrates that dogs and humans are connected more profoundly than has ever been imagined; by heart; and that this approach to dog cognition can help us understand many of dogs’ most inscrutable behaviors. This groundbreaking, provocative book opens the door to a whole new understanding between species, and perhaps a whole new understanding of ourselves.
Science backs this up. Take a look at our article: Experiment Proves Dogs Have Natural Empathy for People Who are Upset
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