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The New Work of Dogs: Tending to Life, Love, and Family
by Jon Katz | Pets & Animals | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0375508147 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0375508147 Global Overview for this book
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Description:
"Writing about his own dogs in 'A Dog Year', Jon Katz became immersed in a larger community of dog lovers and came to realize that in an increasingly fragmented and disconnected society, dogs are often treated not as pets, but as family members and human surrogates.
'The New Work of Dogs' profiles a dozen such relationships in a New Jersey town, like the story of Harry, a Welsh corgi who provides sustaining emotional strength for a woman battling terminal breast cancer; Cherokee, companion of a man who has few human friends and doesn't know how to talk to his own family; the Divorced Dogs Club, whose funny, acerbic, and sometimes angry women turn to their dogs to help them rebuild their lives; and Betty Jean, the frantic founder of a tiny rescue group that has saved five hundred dogs from abuse or abandonment in recent years.
...'The New work of Dogs' combines compelling personal narratives with a pnetrating look at human/animal attachment, and questions whether this relationship shift is an entirely positive phenomenon for both species. Katz offers us a portrait of a community, and by extension a country, that is turning to its pets for emotional support and stability -- a difficult job that more and more dogs are expected to do every day. 'The New Work of Dogs' is a provocative and moving exploration of the evolving role dogs play in a changing and uncertain world."
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Placed in the "wish-list" book box on 08/15/05. Enjoy!
Description:
"Writing about his own dogs in 'A Dog Year', Jon Katz became immersed in a larger community of dog lovers and came to realize that in an increasingly fragmented and disconnected society, dogs are often treated not as pets, but as family members and human surrogates.
'The New Work of Dogs' profiles a dozen such relationships in a New Jersey town, like the story of Harry, a Welsh corgi who provides sustaining emotional strength for a woman battling terminal breast cancer; Cherokee, companion of a man who has few human friends and doesn't know how to talk to his own family; the Divorced Dogs Club, whose funny, acerbic, and sometimes angry women turn to their dogs to help them rebuild their lives; and Betty Jean, the frantic founder of a tiny rescue group that has saved five hundred dogs from abuse or abandonment in recent years.
...'The New work of Dogs' combines compelling personal narratives with a pnetrating look at human/animal attachment, and questions whether this relationship shift is an entirely positive phenomenon for both species. Katz offers us a portrait of a community, and by extension a country, that is turning to its pets for emotional support and stability -- a difficult job that more and more dogs are expected to do every day. 'The New Work of Dogs' is a provocative and moving exploration of the evolving role dogs play in a changing and uncertain world."
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Placed in the "wish-list" book box on 08/15/05. Enjoy!
I got this in the Wishlist Bookbox. I'm the last recepient, so I get to have all the books to read or trade or release or whatever. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this one yet, but I'll update here when I decide.
Actually, I might let a co-worker borrow this, as she's really into dogs. I'm not sure, though.
Actually, I might let a co-worker borrow this, as she's really into dogs. I'm not sure, though.
I gave it to my co-worker. I think both she and her daughter will like it a lot.
