Metrodog

Metrodog
Author: Brian Kilcommons
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2002-09-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780446679183

Shares advice on how to raise a well-behaved, well-adjusted dog in an urban environment, offering tips on everything from housetraining to preventing barking.

The Metro Dogs of Moscow

The Metro Dogs of Moscow
Author: Rachelle Delaney
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2013-01-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0143188348

JR (short for Jack Russell) is an embassy dog. His human, George, is a diplomat who has to travel for work. A lot. Now George is working at the Canadian Embassy in Moscow. And while he fancies himself an adventurous globetrotter, he doesn't see why JR needs any more excitement than hanging out at the park with the other embassy dogs. JR, however, has had quite enough of leashes and perfectly manicured parks—not to mention the boring embassy dogs. He decides to explore Moscow himself, and soon meets some wily Russian strays. JR is convinced that this is the life he’s been looking for. Amazing city smells! Mouthwatering stuffed potatoes! And best of all, the freedom to travel on the Moscow metro! Meanwhile, George has found himself a new girlfriend: the ravishingly beautiful Katerina, who JR suspects is too good to be true. And if that weren’t trouble enough, JR's new friends are starting to mysteriously disappear. When an embassy dog goes missing as well, JR knows he must use everything he’s learned about his new home to solve the mystery of Moscow’s missing dogs.

Dog Teams

Dog Teams
Author: Nami Oneda
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2020-07-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578717708

Around the world, K-9s play a crucial part in police work. But more goes into the training and selection of these dogs than you might think.Go behind the scenes of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department K-9 Section with a look at how to work with police dogs and what it takes to become a K-9 handler. A great book for people who love dogs and want to learn more about their importance in law enforcement, Dog Teams explores the selection, training, and work of K-9 handlers, as well as their relationships with the dogs. It details the process of securing a spot in the K-9 unit and the challenges in selecting the right dogs for the work. It also includes interesting facts about police dogs and how dogs solve crime.If you want to learn about K-9 police dogs, this fascinating and entertaining account will give you a new perspective on the world of these canine heroes.

Deleuze and the Animal

Deleuze and the Animal
Author: Colin Gardner
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2017-04-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1474422756

Becoming-animal is a key concept for Deleuze and Guattari; the ambiguous idea of the animal as human and nonhuman life infiltrates all of Deleuze's work. These 16 essays apply Deleuze's work to analysing television, film, music, art, drunkenness, mourning, virtual technology, protest, activism, animal rights and abolition. Each chapter questions the premise of the animal and critiques the centrality of the human. This collection creates new questions about what the age of the Anthropocene means by 'animal' and analyses and explores examples of the unclear boundaries between human and animal.

Animals in the City

Animals in the City
Author: Laura A. Reese
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2021-11-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0429559453

This book presents interdisciplinary research to examine the ongoing debates around nonhuman animals in urban spaces. It explores how we can better appreciate and accommodate animals in the city, while also exploring the ecological, health, ethical, and cultural implications of the same. The book addresses seven interrelated themes such as blurred boundaries between the human and the nonhuman, the right of nonhuman species to the city, interactions between the human and nonhuman animals, the fabric of urban space, human and nonhuman complex systems, and collective welfare that forms the basis of a transspecies urban theory. It explains how a holistic understanding of the city requires that these blurred boundaries are acknowledged and critically examined. Chapters analytically consider the need to bring interspecies relationships to the fore to tackle questions of legitimacy and who has the "right" to the city. These also consider important intersections between the economic, political, social, and cultural aspects of the urban experience. The research contained in this book focuses on the development of an urban theory that would eradicate the divide between humans and other species in cities, and it depicts nonhuman animals as social actors that have voices within urban spaces. With global insights on human–animal relationships in a contemporary context, this book will be useful reading for scholars and students of urban studies, animal sciences, animal law, animals and public policy, anthropology, and environmental studies who are interested in the study of animals in cities.

Invitation to a Beheading

Invitation to a Beheading
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1989-09-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0679725318

Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude," an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers, an executioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner, and by his in-laws, who lug their furniture with them into his cell. When Cincinnatus is led out to be executed, he simply wills his executioners out of existence: they disappear, along with the whole world they inhabit.

The Language of Dogs

The Language of Dogs
Author: Justin Silver
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 1982181214

The star of the television show "Dog in the City" presents his advice on dog training, emphasizing the importance of knowing a dog's unique personality and focusing on positive commands.

Tails from the Barkside

Tails from the Barkside
Author: Brian Kilcommons
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2009-12-19
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 0446571237

Dogs...they make us laugh, make us cry, and sometimes make us crazy. Now, in a book as warm and wonderful as James Herriot's Yorkshire tales but set in the real world of today's pet owners, America's number one canine experts, Brian Kilcommons and Sarah Wilson, share their adventures in dog training as well as memoirs of their own dogs. From one Siberian Husky puppy trying to make it in the Bahamas to the seven Akitas residing in an Italian villa, you'll meet some unforgettable pooches and learn their owners' pet peeves, including: -- The Rottweiler who played practical jokes -- The Poodle whose smile was mistaken for a snarl -- The Scottish Terrier who went rabbit hunting in a New York City apartment

Good Owners, Great Dogs

Good Owners, Great Dogs
Author: Brian Kilcommons
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1999-09-01
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 9780446675383

Instead of Going Out of Your Mind, Get into His. The only American to study and work with the renowned Barbara Woodhouse, Brian Kilcommons solves all those "bad dog" problems that drive owners crazy-and shows you how to raise a puppy into a happy, perfectly behaved dog. The trick is to understand how dogs think, read their body language, and, with the secrets Kilcommons shares in this book, be "fun, fair, and firm." A dog-training guide that gives you immediate results even with an adult dog, this manual trains you, as it gives owners everything they need and everything dogs need to become... Good Owners, Great Dogs Includes specific tips on how to: * housebreak both puppies and adult dogs * teach your dog to come to you regardless of what he's doing * end annoying habits like jumping, food stealing, and barking * prevent aggression and, in many cases, stop it after it has become a problem * use games to teach your dog to obey ...and much more.