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Title: Amazing Dogs
Subtitle: Stories of Brilliance, Loyalty, Courage & Extraordinary Feats
Author: Lisa Wojna
Softcover • 8.25″ x 5.25″ • 256 pages
ISBN: 978-1-894864-72-5
Retail List Price: $18.95
BISAC CODE: NAT008000
NATURE / Dogs
Amazing Dogs
Stories of Brilliance, Loyalty, Courage & Extraordinary Feats
Lisa Wojna
Our best friends. They can be pets or working dogs; they race for sticks and balls or find survivors of disasters, and they are the subjects of some of the most amazing and touching stories:
- The Sica family’s golden retriever, Bullet, saved their threeweek-old son from certain death from an undiagnosed heart condition
- John Dignard, victim of a brain injury, introduced the concept of memory dogs by training a German shepherd to help him Times were tough for Jude Stringfellow, but a bipedal puppy named Faith taught her to hope
- Rescue dogs working 9-11 found a few survivors, but the remains they uncovered provided closure for grieving families
- Skippy, a hearing-ear dog, has given Kerena Marchant a taste of what freedom really means
- Stubby, a mongrel boxer mutt, became a hero on the front lines when his frenetic barking alerted sleeping soldiers to poisonous gas
- Blue heeler cross Skidboot has made appearances on Jay Leno, Oprah and the Late Show with David Letterman to perform his amazing tricks
- Employees of the Albany post office adopted a stray puppy named Owney, and in his life he traveled hundreds of thousands of miles with the mail to places around the world.
And so many more heartwarming stories…
Lisa Wojna
LISA WOJNA, author of several non-fiction books, has worked in the community newspaper industry as a writer and journalist. Although writing and photography have been a central part of her life for as long as she can remember, it’s the people behind every story that are her motivation and give her the most fulfillment.
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