WELCOME HOME, RESCUE DOG

Awards & Accolades Our Verdict GET IT AN INTERACTIVE GUIDE & KEEPSAKE JOURNAL by Wendy Lyons Sunshine ‧ RELEASE DATE: today An engaging book that’s packed with helpful tips for creating a loving human-canine dynamic. Awards & Accolades Our Verdict GET IT Journalist Sunshine presents an upbeat guide and workbook for new owners of rescue dogs. The author, who’s co-written articles and books about parenting difficult and/or traumatized children, brings gentle advice to the topic of adopting rescue dogs. Integrating any pup into a new family involves a period of adjustment, but rescue animals carry with them unique challenges, due to their often troubled histories; many bear the scars of their pasts—sometimes physical, more often emotional. Most of the time, their earlier lives are a mystery to new owners or, at best, only vaguely known. Some have been removed from their mothers and littermates too early, before having a chance to develop appropriate social behavior (such as learning to bite softly); others have been picked up by animal control while wandering the streets or rescued from a dangerous and abusive situation. In all cases, new owners must offer security, which ...