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While on a camping trip, Ted Kerasote met a dog-a Labrador mix-who was living on his own in the wild. They became attached to each other, and Kerasote decided to name the dog Merle and bring him home. There, he realized that Merle's native intelligence would be diminished by living exclusively in the human world. He put a dog door in his house so Merle could live both outside and in.
A deeply touching portrait of a remarkable dog and his relationship...
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A naturalist and adventurer discusses the personalities and quirks of thirteen animals who have profoundly affected her, exploring themes of learning to become empathetic, creating families, coping with loss, and the otherness and sameness of people and animals.
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In this powerful follow-up to her groundbreaking work The Tao of Equus, Linda Kohanov introduces provocative new theories about the human-horse connection, theories supported by in-depth experience. "Horses," she maintains, "model an embodied spirituality, one that is both fully present in this world and deeply connected to the soul's divine origins." Kohanov explores how these animals support us on both levels, leading us to unexpected realizations...
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192 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Did you know that Pablo Picasso had many pets, including a white mouse and a goat? And that Andy Warhol loved his dachshunds, Georgia O'Keeffe had a passion for chows, and Salvador Dalí liked ocelots and walked an anteater? Artists and Their Pets tells these stores and many more including Frida Kahlo's love for monkeys, Henri Matisse traveling with his cats, and Leonardo da Vinci famously freeing birds from their cages in Italian markets."--Back...
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xvi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"A collection of stories about the human-dog relationship. Drawing on his personal experience, the author explores the lessons that dogs can teach us about love, loyalty, courage, grief, and joyfully living in the present. Each chapter discusses a different lesson and its relevance to our own lives"--
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214 pages ; 24 cm
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"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"--
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452 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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When Ted Kerasote was ready for a new dog after losing his beloved Merle -- who died, as all our dogs do, too soon -- he knew that he would want to give his puppy the longest life possible. But how? Combining cutting-edge research with an adventurous narrative, Kerasote offers answers that will surprise you. He provides vital new information on whether a purebred can be as healthy as a mixed-breed, whether you should say no to yearly vaccines and...
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10 audio discs (12 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Librarian-turned-author Vicki Myron offers a book based on the cat she rescued from her library's book drop one freezing night. This compilation of nine inspiring stories is about cats who have helped their owners take special joy from their seemingly ordinary lives. These true tales--including two new ones about Dewey--are brimming with examples of how people experience vital connections to the animals in their lives.
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xii, 254 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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The story of a sick baby bird nursed back to health and into the wild.
When Jemima, a young orphaned blue jay, is brought to wildlife rehabilitator Zickefoose, she is a virtually tailless, palm-sized bundle of gray-blue fluff. Though starved and very sick, she is nursed back to health and raised for eventual release. In the meantime, Jemima takes over the house and the rest of the author's summer. Shortly after release Jemima turns up with a deadly...
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"People around the world have fallen in love with Penguin the Magpie, a global social media sensation, and her adventures with her human family. But there is far more to Penguin's story than meets the eye. It all begins when Sam, Cameron Bloom's wife, suffers a near fatal fall that leaves her paralyzed and deeply depressed. One of their three sons, reeling from the tragic accident, discovers an injured magpie chick abandoned after she had fallen from...
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259 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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"From the author of Following Atticus, an international bestseller that has inspired hundreds of thousands of people around the world, comes the moving true story of a despondent and broken old dog and the man who gave him a second chance. Drawn by a fateful online post, Tom Ryan, with the help of his canine hiking partner, Atticus M. Finch, adopts Will, an elderly, deaf, and nearly blind soul. Long neglected and filled with anger and pain, Will finds...
19) On animals
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241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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'How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,' writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book called Herbert the Near-Sighted Pigeon, she's been drawn to stories about how we live with animals, and how they abide by us. Now, in On Animals, she examines animal-human relationships through the compelling tales she has written over the course of her celebrated career....
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295 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"I always knew that the rest of my story is gonna be a good one. I don't know how I knew that, but I always did. Ungow! I am Fester the cat. Welcome to my book, everyone! From when he first ambled into Paul Magrs's yard-skinny, covered in flea bites, and missing all but one and a half teeth-Fester knew he'd found his family. Paul and his partner, Jeremy, thought it was the ragged black-and-white stray, tired from a rough life on the streets, who was...
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