working dogs

Discusses what a dog's life is like with simple text.

Describes how dogs use their physical abilities, intelligence, and training by humans to perform a variety of jobs, including working in the movies, catching burglars, delivering messages, and cheering up children in hospitals.

Every day, a small white dog goes to the hospital to visit sick children and help them recover.

Discusses guide dogs, their selection and training, the preferred breeds, and their work with the vision-impaired.

Discusses guide dogs, their selection and training, the preferred breeds, and their work with the vision-impaired.

"Introduces eleven breeds of dogs that have worked for people in the past and that continue to be used in different but equally important ways.".

Kat Albrecht, the first law-enforcement-based pet detective in the United States, shares stories of how she uses investigative techniques, and searches with scent-detection dogs to help locate lost pets, including dogs, cats, snakes, turtles, and horses.

Text and photographs highlight the evolutionary history of the dog family, their domestication, anatomy, behavior, and breeds.

Text and photographs highlight the evolutionary history of the dog family, their domestication, anatomy, behavior, and breeds.

Describes the various breeds of dogs used to guard and herd sheep, explains how they work, and discusses the importance of these dogs to the sheep industry.