Dog Park Wisdom: Real-World Advice on Choosing, Caring for, and Understanding Your Canine Companion by Lisa Wogan

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Synopsis

Imagine the most entertaining and informative trip to the dog park, ever!

Often the best advice comes from personal experience, so who better to offer counsel on dogs than their owners? Dog Park Wisdom shares a grassroots approach to pet care, from Fido's introduction to a new baby, to the best way to remove dog stains from car upholstery, to the ultimate shoe-chewing prevention tactic. Presented in the context of everyday life, hundreds of dog owners, dog park visitors, and folks from the "new dog economy" share hands-on wisdom and tips about the often confusing and contradictory world of dog ownership. Personal stories of advice givers and their dogs are woven throughout. Meet the dog-loving software engineer who gave up a stressful career at Microsoft to become a dog walker, and the international development worker who discovered a cure for her dog's hotspots in Uganda, which in turn helped fuel a small business project for women and girls there.

Biography

Lisa Wogan is the author of Unleashed: Climbing Canines, Hiking Hounds, Fishing Fidos and Other Daring Dogs (Skipstone), and is a contributing editor at The Bark magazine as well as a regular contributor to The Seattle Times, Ms., Seattle Magazine and Northwest Home + Garden. Wogan lives in Seattle with her husband, Charlie, and their husky-lab mix, Lulu.

When photographer Bev Sparks quit her corporate job to start her own photography business she didn't know she would soon be specializing in the fine art of photographing dogs. After her first private commission to photograph a cairn terrier, she knew it was her calling. In addition to private commissions, her work is used by publishers, ad agencies, greeting card companies, and nonprofits, and was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Sparks shares her Seattle home with, naturally, two dogs as well as a cat.