Search Books

Amazing Dogs: Stories of Brilliance, Loyalty, Courage & Extraordinary Feats

Author Lisa Wojna
Publisher Folklore Pub
📄 Viewing lite version Full site ›
🌎 Shop on Amazon — choose country
17.06 18.95 USD
🛒 Buy New on Amazon 🇺🇸 🏷 Buy Used — $0.01

✓ Usually ships in 24 hours

Share:
Book Details
Author(s)Lisa Wojna
PublisherFolklore Pub
ISBN / ASIN1894864727
ISBN-139781894864725
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank5,465,571
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

Description

Our best friends. They can be pets or working dogs; they race for sticks and balls or find survivors of disasters, and they are the subjects of some of the most amazing and touching stories:

* Employees of the Albany post office adopted a stray puppy named Owney, and in his life he traveled hundreds of thousands of miles with the mail to places around the world
* John Dignard, victim of a brain injury, introduced the concept of memory dogs by training a German shepherd help him
* Rescue dogs working 9/11 found a few survivors, but the remains they uncovered provided closure for grieving families
* Times were tough for Jude Stringfellow, but a bipedal puppy named Faith taught her to hope again
* The Sica family's golden retriever, Bullet, saved their three-week-old son from certain death from an undiagnosed heart condition
* Stubby, a mongrel boxer mutt, became a hero on the front lines when his frenetic barking alerted sleeping soldiers to poisonous gas
* Skippy, a hearing-ear dog, has given Kerena Marchant a taste of what freedom really means
* Blue heeler cross Skidboot has made appearances on Jay Leno, Oprah and the Late Show with David Letterman to perform his amazing tricks.

And so many more heartwarming stories...