Summer Reading 2003

Next time you're sitting around a ring wondering what to do before your next run, how about a little reading about your pet topic - dogs. Books are a great way to improve your mind to say nothing of your handling - and you'll definitely expand your understanding and possibly your relationship with your dog. This list of titles was collected from a wide range of people who nominated these books as their favourites. Enjoy.

To find out more about why these books, see Book Stop.

Description	Title	Author
Agility	Agility - Spaß und Sport mit Hunden	Astrid Steiner
	Don't Shoot the Dog	Karen Pryor
Autobiographyy	Emma & I	Sheila Hocken
	Jock of the Bushveld	Percy Fitzpatrick
Behaviour	Ain't Misbehavin'	David Appleby & Andrew Marland
	Building Blocks for Performance	Bobbie Anderson with Tracy Libby
	Canine Partners	Jane Bidder
	The Culture Clash	Jean Donalson
	Dogs. A Startling New  Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior & Evolution	Ray & Laura Coppinger
	Excel - Erated Learning	Pamela J. Reid Ph.D.
	How to Speak Dog	Stanley Coren
	Living with Dogs	George Summers
	On Talking Terms with Dogs: Calming Signals	Turid Rugaas
	The Book of the Bitch	J. M. Evans & Kay White
	The Dog Listener	Jan Fennell
	Think Dog	John Fisher
Breed	A Guide to the Weimaraner (out of print, limited availability)	Gillian Burgoin
	All About the Lurcher	Kathrine Totenham
	The Complete Australian Cattle Dog	John Holmes
	The Ultimate Border Collie	Alison Hornsby
Children's Book	Clifford the Small Red Puppy & Other stories	Norman Bridwell
	Lassie Come Home	Eric Knight
	Shadow the Sheepdog	Enid Blyton
Dog Training	Doctor Dunbar's Good Little Dog Book	Ian Dunbar
	Introduction to Dog Agility	Margaret H. Bonham
	Just Say Good Dog - Teaching the Family Dog	Linda Goodman with Marlene Trunnel
	Lessons from a Stock Dog	Bruce Fogt
	Purely Positive Training - Companion to Competition	Sheila Booth
Humour	A Dog Day	Walter Emanuel
	Dr Dog	Babette Cole
Novels & Ficiton	Breeders	Anita Burgh
	Call of the Wild Fluke	Jack London James Herbert
	Nop's Trials	Donald McCaig
	The Loop	Nicholas Evans
	The Wrong Dog	Carol Lea Benjamin
	Thy Servant a Dog	Rudyard Kipling
Travel	One Hundred Mile Walkies	Unknown
True Stories	Greyfriars Bobby	Eleanor Atkinson
	Red Dog	Louis de Bernières
	The Illustrated Shepherds Life	W. H. Hudson
	Winterdance	Gary Paulsen

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