Breeds Books

The best title so far on the bree

Complete and useful for breeders and pat owners,judges too. Good job

This is a wonderful songbook and is very easy to follow. I would recommend this for anyone.

Piano parts and vocals for the Alive In South Africa concert. Piano parts are fairly advanced. Includes 'Take the Limits Off,' 'You've Been a Friend,' 'He Knows My Name,' 'Alpha and Omega,' and 'Your Latter Will Be Greater.' The book also stays open very easily (nice binding for pianists.)

This is a wonderful, wonderful book. The information is probably THE most accurate of any Russell book I've read so far (and I've gone through quite a few with my first JRT!). Author is very descriptive and covers everything from breeding to old age in depth. Adorable pictures.

I loved this book. It gave a lot of information about the breed and the pictures were so cute! It gave me all I needed to know about the breed's history, habits, its trainability and physical features. For anyone who is thinking about purchasing a Jack Russell Terrier, I encourage them to buy this book. Even if you don't want to buy a Jack Russell Terrier, it is still a great book to read and gather information about Jack Russell Terriers.

For anybody who loves the Jack Russell and can appreciate their terrier personality. I live in a multiple terrier home so seeing these pictures were like looking at my own funny dogs. I have tried to line up terriers for Christmas photos, but not with the success of Mrs. Mackay-Smith. Favorites have to be the JRTs at the piano, on the back of a blanketed, tinseled horse, and asleep (!!!) beneath Christmas stockings filled with dog biscuits. Mrs. Mackay-Smith, how did you manage that?! Thank you for publishing this delightful little book whose subjects remind me of my own beloved terriers.

No one can capture the spirit of a Jack Russell, in a photograph, like Marilyn Mackay-Smith. She pairs very appropriate (or humorous!) quotes with the amazing photos.
This is a wonderful book for any dog lover.

This made an excellent gift. The recipients are very happy with it, the photos are beautiful and it arrive right on time...

Just Jack Russells is a gorgeous celebration of the Jack Russell terrier. These hearts and souls of lively, energetic, fun-loving dogs are captured in a collection of breathtaking color photography. Author and canine expert Steve Smith's accessible and informative text offers short descriptions and explanations of the cheerful nature of this beloved breed of dog. Just Jack Russells is a welcome addition to the shelf of any dog lover, and the perfect gift book selection for terrier owners and enthusiasts.

If you love labs this is the one for you!

If you love labs this is the one for you!

I bought "Kitten Games" by Anne Millard because of the first reviewer's enthusiasm. She was 100% right in her enthusiasm. Our 1 1/2 yr old granddaughter fell in love with it immediately. She has just discovered cats and is working her way into loving books. "Kitten Games" was a perfect choice for her situation.

We have had this book since my daughter was 6 months old and it is one of her favorites...out of at least 30 or so books. She is now 15 months old and has not tired of it. It is a very cute book.

I purchased this book while on vacation in Maine this past June. I forgot to bring a book with me and went into a Coastal Book Shoppe and found this one. If you are into looking a beatiful photos of labs and reading informative and comical strories about them... this is the book for you! I read this one in a few hours.

Even though none of my four Labrador Retrievers hunts for anymore substantial than the errant squirrel or chipmunk that happens to scamper through my big back yard that the Labs haunt at every opportunity, I read this wonderful book with awe and surprise, for author Todd Berger has used both a pictoral and an amusing descriptive narrative approach sure to enchant the casual Labrador fan. This is a book devoted exclusively to field dogs, meaning that branch of the Labrador breeding tree tuned specifically to the needs and prerogatives of the hunter, and his or her quest for the perfect hunting companion, which the Labrador at his best certainly is.

Berger employs an electic mix of talented sports writers who relay entertaining personal anecdotes concerning their adventures with their own Labs, and as any Lab owner can tell you, the dogs have such loveable and irrascible personalities it impossible not to have such amusing tall tales to tell. Indeed, to me this book represents a virtual celebration of wonders and qualities of the country's most popular working dog, a dog now so universally recognized as to literally define what it means to have a "family" dog. This particulur volume now rests on my living room coffee table, with a number of other such books, and it always provides guests and visitors with grist for comparing what they see whirling around them by way of my own dogs with somewhat less frantic and worshipping models of the very dogs so many of us have come to love. Enjoy!

I used to hunt a long time ago, but have since grown distant from any need to kill for sport ... so, I was initially rather hesitant about this purchase ... I've had the book for about a week now, gone through it from cover to cover, and must say the hunting element still disturbs me somewhat ... but the subject has been treated in the best possible manner ...

The book is well laid out, with quality paper and colour separation ... the photography is very good, the backdrops & landscapes breath taking ... the dogs themselves are shown at their best ... sharing quiet moments with their human partners ... running, playing and working in water ... and doing that which they excel ... retrieving. A wonderful book for all who love Labradors ... and can keep an open mind about hunting ...

There are alot of labrador picture books, but this is one of the best I've seen. Not only is the photography technically suburb, but the unique ways in which these dogs are portrayed shows you how much Byran loves labs and how much time he spends around them. Mr. Bryan postulates in the intro that people who don't hunt can't really appreciate their lab's full potential. I don't hunt, so our lab is a family dog. But this book allowed me to understand what she's capable of and to appreciate her already fine qualities even more.

It's a cute concept - to have a little Boston Terrior tell us all we need to know about pet therapy. Mickey is an engaging narrator and I enjoyed reading his story. But this book offers lots, lots more than entertainment. It lets you see from the ground up what it's like for a dog and his owner to train and work as a pet therapy team.

This book answers many questions I've had about pet therapy. What kind of dogs can do it? What does pet therapy involve? How do you and your dog train and qualify for being in such a program? Where can I find resources about pet therapy? How do the folks who have the pets visit benefit?

All these questions, and most of all the last, are answered in a very satisfying, accessible fashion. _Lapdog Therapy_ is very inspiring as it demonstrates with words, photographs and beautiful watercolours how Mickey and Winnie make a difference to the folks at a retirement community near their house. Therapy dogs are needed and loved for many reasons and in many ways by the older people pictured and described in this book. (I must note that I was very happy with the respectful way the folks in the retirement home were presented.)

At the end of the story, there are dozens of resources (most of which can be contacted by email).

Thank you, Mickey! My mastiffs can never do "lapdog therapy" (except maybe for the Jolly Green Giant), but I see they and I could qualify to do pet therapy.

Canine author and therapy dog Mickey offers a furry-fresh perspective on animal-assisted activities in his book LapDog Therapy. An educational and entertaining read for anyone who is - or wants to be - involved in this rewarding world of human-animal interaction.

An added benefit for Canadian readers is the inclusion of Canadian contact information in the well laid-out reference section.