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In a dog's heart : what our dogs need, want, and deserve-and the gifts we can expect in return  Cover Image Book Book

In a dog's heart : what our dogs need, want, and deserve-and the gifts we can expect in return

Summary: Shares inspiring and scientifically important stories of dogs who have changed the world, from a rescued Labrador who detects bombs on the Israeli border to a Lab-Golden mix who provides comfort to child cancer patients at an Atlanta hospital.

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  • ISBN: 9780679643715 (hc.)
  • ISBN: 0679643710 (hc.)
  • Physical Description: print
    xvi, 230 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2011.

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Formatted Contents Note: In their heart of hearts -- What dogs want -- The gift of good health -- Keeping our dogs healthy -- Veterinary health -- Safe havens -- Worldly dangers -- Inner dangers -- Teaming up -- Pick of the litter -- Adopting an adult dog -- The ties that bind -- Better together -- Canine contentment -- Reason enough -- Veterinary emergencies -- Common household toxins -- Desensitization and counterconditioning for dogs exhibiting specific-object guarding -- Teaching the gentle mouth to an adult dog -- The super dog protocol -- Socialization checklist -- Teaching the tug and retrieve -- Desensitization schedult for mild separation anxiety.
Subject: Dogs -- Psychology
Dogs -- Behavior
Human-animal relationships

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  • 8 of 8 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Valemount Public Library.

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Valemount Public Library anf 636.7 arn (Text) 35194014164313 Adult non-fiction Volume hold Available -

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