My Favorite Dog Books

Park Benches are for Pipkins too!!

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• Watership Down-yes,about Rabbits,not dogs, but Pippie was named for the smallest Rabbit
• The Hobbit-again,no dogs here,but also the name of a previous pup
• In the Company of Newfies-makes you want 3 or 4; describes the author's heartbreak over the loss of one of her 180lb. "babies" to cancer
• Dogwatching-nonfiction;delightful, often hilarious insights into what their behavior means to them
• Sounder-more of a kid's book, but its a devastating read - I hate when the dog dies at the end
• Shiloh-again, for young reader's, but with an uplifting ending(Shiloh doesn't die)
• Trouble with Tuck-about a young girl who trains a seeing-eye-dog for her blind pup, Tuck; sort of a Rocky-like ending
• Hidden Life of Dogs-controversial true story of a woman's pack which actually reverts to its wild,wolf-like state
• Old Yeller-who doesn't cry at the death of Old Yeller, the great 'coon hound
• The Dog Who Rescues Cats-Sometimes life is stranger than fiction in a good way