Central Skagit Library District

Understanding Your Fearful, Reactive, or Aggressive dog, and Strategies and Techniques to Make Change Are your dog walks a nightmare?Lunging, barking, pulling you over, and putting on a blood-curdling display of aggression? You love your dog - a perfect peach at home - so why on earth is she doing this? Using entirely force-free proven methods, developed through extensive study and working with thousands of dog-owners - and a very readable, jargon-free...

Teach Your Brilliant Family Dog to Catch, Fetch, Retrieve, Find, and Bring Things Back! Having a dog who will retrieve his ball or frisbee and bring it back to be thrown again, is for many people the essence of a dog walk! But your dog may have other ideas … perhaps he takes the toy and runs off with it, or lies down and chews it, or even shows no interest whatever - leaving you to go and hunt for the toy yourself. This can all be changed! You just...

In Kindred Spirits, Anne Benvenuti visits with individuals and groups working in animal conservation, rescue, and sanctuary programs around the world. We meet not only cats and dogs but also ravens, elephants, cheetahs, whales, farm and circus animals, monkeys, even bees. A psychologist and storyteller, Benvenuti focuses on moments of transformative contact between humans and other animals, portraying vividly the resulting ripples that change the...

Nature author Marianne Taylor's The Animal Mind is a fascinating exploration of animal intelligence and emotion, with thought-provoking essays, surprising insights, and breathtaking images by leading photographers Joel Sartore, Melissa Groo, Peter Delaney, and others. We are only beginning to understand the ways in which the animal mind is as complex as our own. A prairie dog's vocal language is now the most sophisticated ever decoded, but their...

During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.