Book Review Archives - Floofins & Co.

Inside of a Dog… Examining Dog Behavior And Communication

In what will be considered a classic if it isn’t already, Barnard College professor Alexandra Horowitz’s Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know seeks to help readers better understand their dogs by taking an in-depth look at how they experience and act on the world. The book examines dog behavior and dog communication, and also how dogs perceive the world they live in, and how this affects the aforementioned behavior and communication. [Read more…]

A Book Review: Rescue Road

Rescue Road: One Man, Thirty Thousand Dogs, and a Million Miles on the Last Hope Highway follows Greg Mahle on one of his “rescue road trips,” as author Peter Zheutlin joins this intrepid man on his bimonthly journeys from Ohio to Gulf Coast. There Mahle meets up with a handful of dog rescue organizations to pick up as many rescue dogs as he can safely fit into his transport vehicle, a tractor trailer that’s been outfitted to comfortably support up to eighty dogs. There he and the dogs head back up north so the pups can meet their new forever families. Transporting rescue dogs is Greg’s livelihood and his passion; the work is intensely rewarding but also challenging and at times quite chaotic. [Read more…] about Book Review: Rescue Road by Peter Zheutlin