Product Description: The sun always comes out tomorrow for the shelter animals Bill Berloni rescues—sometimes from death’s door—and then trains to meet the demands of the stage. Berloni was a nineteen-year-old theater apprentice more then three decades ago when he was offered his first big break: find and train a dog to appear in the original production of the Broadway hit Annie...read more

(A true story.) Meet Hola. She’s a nightmare, but it’s not her fault if she tackles strangers and chews on furniture, or if she runs after buses and fried chicken containers and drug dealers. No one ever told her not to. Worse yet, she scares her family. Hola may be the most beautiful Bernese mountain dog in the world, but she’s never been trained. At least not by anyone who knew what he was doing. Hola’s supposed master, Marty, is a high-functioning alcoholic. A TV writer turned management consultant, Marty’s in debt and out of shape; he’s about to lose his job, and one day he emerges from a haze of peach-flavored vodka to find he’s on the verge of losing his wife, Gloria, too, if he can’t get his life—and his dog—under control.  Desperately trying to save his marriage, Marty throws himself headlong into the world of competitive dog training. Unfortunately, he knows even less than Hola, the only dog ever to be expelled from her puppy preschool twice. Somehow, together, they need to get through the American Kennel Club’s rigorous Canine Good Citizen test. Of course, Hola first needs to learn how to sit.  It won’t be easy. It certainly won’t be pretty. But maybe, just maybe, there will be cheesecake.

Product Description: Tales from a Dog Catcher is based on the author’s experiences in a smallish city in the northern suburbs of NYC. Reminiscent of both All Creatures Great and Small and Marley & Me, it offers the stories of everyday people who, whether by accident or design, come into contact with the sad, funny, and often profound world of an animal control officer...read more

Product Description: William Berloni and his company have spent the past thirty years training dogs and cats for Broadway productions, primarily using animals rescued from shelters. As a high schooler in 1976, Berloni had rescued an Airedale mixed breed only hours before it was slated for euthanasia...read more

Product Description: In a city park, a woman meets an abandoned, amber-eyed boxer who follows her home. They spend a honeymoon year discovering each other’s idiosyncrasies (morning dog or evening dog? ). Then life settles into routine, and the freewheeling woman realizes that she and her bilingual comedian of a dog are “happily stuck with each other,” for better or worse...read more

A former fashion model wife of actor Ben Gazzara recounts her adoption of an unwanted dachshund, describing how the endearing canine transformed their jet-setting lifestyle and became a fixture at their high-society outings.

With her signature wit, smarts, and taste for celebrity dish, Cindy Adams shares the life lessons she learned from both her saviors--Juicy and Jazzy. In Cindy's own words, 'Yorkies are like peanuts. You can't stop at just one.' After the success of her book about Jazzy, her decision to bring Juicy into the family gave her ample ammo to write the next installment. But it wasn't long until her beloved Jazzy--who had become her closest family member and helped her cope with her husband's death--passed away unexpectedly. Cindy was devastated. Nothing and nobody would ever replace him. Cindy was certain she would never love again. But as her relationship with Juicy grew, and the loving, single-minded pooch claimed her rightful place in the center of Cindy's lap, she realized that yet again a wise four-legged companion had shown her that 'Life is good. Life goes on.'--From publisher description.The 'New York Post' columnist shares the life lessons she gleaned through her relationships with her former and current Yorkie companions, who helped her to find joy in the continuity of life after a loss.

The author of The Bark magazine's award-winning column 'Rex and the City' describes how a young couple's lives are turned upside down when they impulsively adopt Rex, an irrepressible mutt and dysfunctional canine, from the animal shelter and how Rex's transformation from wounded puppy to free-spirited dog reenergized their commitment to each other. 25,000 first printing.

A collection of humorous and poignant tales describes the author's coming-of-age at the side of a rescued German Shorthair Pointer, a relationship that taught him profound lessons about love, loss, and friendship. By the co-author of The Everything Dog Book.

Product Description: A single city woman meets Mr. Right-he has amber eyes and a wily heart. There's only one catch . . . he has four legs and a tail.Relatively indifferent to the natural world, allergic to dogs, and happily independent, writer Louise Bernikow never had a pet and knew nothing about caring for one...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)