The New Work of Dogs

Tending to Life, Love, and Family

Jon Katz

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Random House USA Inc
15 July 2004

Dogs as pets

Compelling and moving stories of human/canine companionship in a single community illustrate the increased role dogs play in tending to our emotional needs--from the author of A DOG YEAR. WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR.

In an increasingly fragmented and disconnected society, dogs are often treated not as pets, but as family members and human surrogates. The New Work of Dogs profiles a dozen such relationships in a New Jersey town, like the story of Harry, a Welsh corgi who provides sustaining emotional strength for a woman battling terminal breast cancer; Cherokee, companion of a man who has few friends and doesn't know how to talk to his family; the Divorced Dogs Club, whose funny, acerbic, and sometimes angry women turn to their dogs to help them rebuild their lives; and Betty Jean, the frantic founder of a tiny rescue group that has saved five hundred dogs from abuse or abandonment in recent years.

Drawn from hundreds of interviews and conversations with dog lovers and canine professionals, The New Work of Dogs combines compelling personal narratives with a penetrating look at human/animal attachment, and it presents a vivid portrait of a community-and, by extension, an entire nation-that is turning to its pets for emotional support and stability in a changing and uncertain world.

By: Jon Katz
Imprint: Random House USA Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 222g
ISBN: 9780375760556
ISBN 10: 0375760555
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 15 July 2004
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jon Katz has written twelve books-six novels and six works of nonfiction. A two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award, he has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, and Wired. He is a contributing editor to public radio's Marketplace and to Bark magazine. A member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers, he lives in northern New Jersey with his wife, Paula Span, a reporter for The Washington Post; their college-student daughter, Emma Span; and their two dogs. Katz is working on his next book, which is about women and dogs. He can be e-mailed at jonkatz3@comcast.net.

Reviews for The New Work of Dogs: Tending to Life, Love, and Family

Deserves a blue ribbon . . . [Katz] does a terrific job of examining how dogs are handling their 'new work' serving as many a family's nurturer in chief. --People [Katz] writes with sensitivity about human relationships with animals. --Time Engagingly bittersweet . . . Katz's central thesis, that dogs have moved way beyond their past work, is certainly true. --The New York Times Book Review Humorous, compelling, and heartrending, this is a breakthrough book from one of our most talented and perceptive canine chroniclers. --AKC Gazette