Home Care

This is it, the one book you need when you're ready to add a kitten to your household. Nationally known pet authority Amy Shojai reads her award-winning top-ranking Amazon Kindle book. Complete Kitten Care contains the latest behavior information and care research, including new vaccination guidelines and more. This veritable"'Kitten 101" is packed with all the must-knows.

Did you just purchase or adopt a golden retriever but don’t know where to start? Do you feel like you are too busy and just don’t have enough time to raise your golden retriever? Has it been weeks or months of trying to correct bad habits and behaviors and your furry friend continues to give you a hard time? If so, then you’ve come to the right place. You see, training your golden retriever doesn’t have to be difficult, even if you have tried other solutions that didn’t work before. In fact, it’s a lot easier than you think.

Service Dog Training Blueprint is your step-by-step guide to transforming your dog into a life-changing companion. Whether you need help with mobility, medical alert, psychiatric support, or public access training, this book provides advanced techniques tailored to your unique needs. With proven methods based on real-world case studies, this blueprint takes you beyond basic obedience and into specialized service dog training.

How To Train Your Dog with Love + Science presents a modern and science-based approach to dog training, showing how behavior can be changed without coercion and force. Annie Grossman, a journalist-turned-dog trainer, breaks down what positive reinforcement actually is and makes the case that "good dog training" may even be a window into understanding ourselves.

This delightful narrative takes listeners on a powerful search to unlock the secrets of dog cognition, based on evidence from trainers, owners, behaviorists, and the animals themselves. With in-depth reporting and more than a few personal adventures, best-selling author Jennifer S. Holland digs into what intelligence really means.

Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on the planet, and yet cats remain more mysterious, even to their most adoring owners. In Cat Sense, renowned anthrozoologist John Bradshaw takes us further into the mind of the domestic cat than ever before, using cutting-edge scientific research to explain the true nature - and needs - of our feline friends. Tracing the cat’s evolution from solitary hunter to domesticated companion, Bradshaw shows that cats remain independent, predatory, and wary of social contact.

Beaten, tortured and shot 17 times, Maggie the little street dog should have given up on the world. But the world didn't give up on her. With the help of her human friends, Maggie begins her long road to recovery and starts to spread joy everywhere she goes. This is the inspirational true story of a little dog who learned to be loved just as she is.

After observing his cat, Ziggy, for years, Stephane Garnier became convinced that cats have life down to an art form, so he set out to share Ziggy's je ne sais quoi with the world. Highlighting 40 trademark cat qualities that are (almost) entirely applicable to human daily living, Garnier provides insights that are delightfully useful as well as tips for living a day in the life of a cat - and a Q&A to test your cat quotient to see how much work you have to do learn the subtle art of living like a feline.

This one-stop "instruction manual" is the essential companion to your lovable Schnoodle, covering everything you should know from buying a new puppy through to old age and how best to look after your precious Schnoodle, including three in-depth top breeder interviews packed with advice and tips.

Described by Jeffrey Masson as "the single best introduction to animal rights ever written, Tom Regan's Empty Cages stands as an essential guide to the ongoing animal rights debate. In a style at once simple and elegant, Regan dispels the negative image of animal rights advocates as portrayed by the mass media, unmasks the fraudulent rhetoric of "humane treatment" favored by animal exploiters in both familiar and less well-documented contexts, and explains why existing laws function to legitimize institutional cruelty.

This one-stop instruction manual is the essential companion to your lovable jug. We cover everything you should know, from buying a new puppy through to old age and how best to look after your precious jug, including three in-depth breeder and owner interviews packed with advice and tips.

The complete text of the landmark encyclical letter from Pope Francis that, as Time magazine reported, “rocked the international community” In the Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality, the beloved Pope exhorts the world to combat environmental degradation and its impact on the poor...

Exactly how wild are Bengal cats? Are they huge and vicious? Are they hypoallergenic? How did Bengals become one of the most popular and adored cat breeds? If you want to learn everything there is to know about the Bengal cat’s history, temperament, and appearance, this book is for you. 50 Things to Know About Bengal Cats by Cynthia Downer offers a step towards understanding and admiring this stigmatized domestic cat breed. Most books on cats may advise you to avoid hybrid cats like Bengals.

Easily one of the most recognizable dogs in the world, Chihuahuas are easy to identify. This guide will walk you through the in's and out's of owning this phenomenal breed. Whether you're someone playing with the idea of getting a Chihuahua, or have already embarked on your journey with your pup, this guide will offer an insight into how to create a happy and fulfilling life for you and your Chi. This audiobook will answer all your questions.

In this “urgent and necessary book” (Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author), journalist Elissa Strauss explores the powerful role caring for others plays in our individual and communal lives, weaving together research and stories from parents and caregivers with a feminist bent...

Spanning the entire life and afterlife of her dog, Brio, including his last days and his messages to the author after he passed on, this audiobook explores Mannes' investigations into the spiritual life of animals, offering a new understanding of the unbreakable bond between humans and animals. Mannes invites listeners to move beyond the owner-pet relationship and shows us how to see animals as thinking, feeling, spiritual beings whose connections with us extend far beyond life and death.

Un ouvrage essentiel pour ronronner de bonheur, recommandé par "Femme Actuelle" et "miaou" ! De nombreuses études récentes démontrent que les personnes vivant avec un chat jouissent d'une meilleure santé psychologique que les autres. Jour après jour, tous les propriétaires constatent le pouvoir de leur compagnon griffu, sans pour autant pouvoir se l'expliquer. Ce livre audio vous permet de le comprendre.

Im Herzen Jakartas geschrieben, erzählt dieses Buch von den letzten Tagen einer tiefen Freundschaft, die die Grenzen zwischen Zwei- und Vierbeinern überwindet. Die Autorin, eine erfahrene Tierkommunikatorin, teilt ihre ergreifenden Lektionen, die sie auf ihrem Weg mit Leni, einer einst misshandelten Hündin, lernte. Dieses Buch führt die Leser durch die komplexen Emotionen des Abschieds und der Heilung, illustriert durch Lenis unerschütterliche Lebensfreude und Weisheit.

Flight of a Dog's Soul is a true story blending memoir and spiritual inspiration. It was born from the grief of losing a beloved companion—and the extraordinary miracle that followed. When Clouseau, the author's cherished dog, passed away, sorrow filled the home—until, within hours, a mourning dove appeared in a way that felt like more than coincidence. Landing on a shoulder, walking gently up an arm, and pressing its cheek against a grieving face, the dove began a forty-day journey with the family, offering comfort and presence.

Jo Anne Normile was not supposed to keep the foal, an exuberant Thoroughbred with only a few white hairs on his reddish-brown forehead. But she fell in love with the young horse, who had literally been born into her arms. The breeder finally said she could keep the colt, whom she nicknamed "Baby" - but only if she raced him. It was difficult to take Baby away from the safety of his pasture. But Normile had made a promise.