A Girl's Best Friend
The best-selling book that started the series exploring the significance of animals in women’s lives. Eighty-six women and girls from all across the globe contributed to this beautiful collection of stories, letters, poems and photographs, sharing the funny, sad and amazing tales of their relationships with dogs. Readers will cry and laugh as they enjoy this homage to their best friends: dogs they’ve grown up with; dogs with incredible character; dogs who’ve changed – even saved – women’s lives.
2001 | ISBN 9781876756109 | Paperback | 212 x 212 mm | 208 pp
Reviews
Finally, a dog book to recommend unequivocally.
–Debra Adelaide, Sydney Morning Herald
If you are a dog owner, you cannot help but bask in the supreme feeling of justice that these wonderful creatures have finally received the recognition they deserve. Don’t expect a ‘cute’ girl-dog book; the pages capture enticing and real experiences between women and their pets.
–Conscious Living
This is the perfect present for every dog lover.
–Panache
Lots of humour, and heart warming pieces, but this book also seriously acknowledges the depth of relationships with dogs, the true importance of their place in our hearts, and in our emotional health and well-being. For many of us our longest relationship ever, has been with a special dog.
–Rebecca Kagan, LOTL
Proving once and for all that dogs are not just man’s best friend, this is a terrific anthology … Touching, funny and a bit of a love-in.
–Gleebooks Summer Reading
I found both the stories of the dogs and the backgrounds of their owners equally interesting. There are sociologists, artists, poets, academics, teachers, refuge volunteers, writers, editors, politicians, journalists and heaps more.
–Wendy Parsons, Chin Wag
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Section One Growing Up with Dogs 1
Kate Munro Sibling Rivalry with a Labrador
Jeanne Daly Sonja
Hannah Jones Max and Molly
Melinda Tankard Reist Jazza, Monte, Ripper and Little Dog
Lesley-Caron Veater Rex
Carolyne Bruyn Every One of Them
Susan Hawthorne Little River and the Big River
Clare Healy My Puppies
Judy Horacek
Patricia Sykes Leash
Penny Jones Emma
Carol J. Adams Cyrano de Dogge
Section Two Ways of Being with Dogs
Renate Klein My Baci Dog — A Love Letter
Katharine Coles Confusion
Mandira Sen Sublime Beings
Anne Beech Talking Toby
Trudy Griggs Irreconcilable Differences
Coral Hull Landscape Photography with Dogs 44 Dogs and Gods 45
Finola Moorhead The Dog Trainer
Susanne Kappeler Django
Tara Middleton To Kill a Mockingbird: Something Too Precious
Regula Langemann and Suna Yamaner Ayla, the Fur Person
Susan Rhind Kuri
Meg Lees Nipa
Angelika Aliti Sully’s Eyes
Cristina Biaggi First There Were Four
Suniti Namjoshi Entente Cordiale
Sue Barber Pipi
Miriel Lenore the visitor
Suzanne Bellamy Thelma
Section Three The Dog of My Life
Kaye Moseley Nina
Claire Warren Gypsy
Doris Kartinyeri My Wonder Dog
Karen Lane My Life with Marx
Eileen Bailey-Styles Hector
Janice Raymond Cassiopeia: Queen of the Night Sky
Bette Guymer My Prince
Donna Jackson Bad Dog
Eloise Klein Healy For Holly
Billie Hamilton Smith My Dog ‘Pluto’
Robyn Rowland ‘Here’s Looking at You, Babe’
Laurel Guymer Maxi and Me
Christine Morley Bonnie
Titi Chartay Toots
Section Four Dogs and Home Life
Lynda Birke and Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes Of Doggies, Mud and Housework
Pia Cameron-Szirom Fun in the Tub
Felicity Thyer Friends
Bronwyn Simmons Thank You to a Dog
Kathryn Crofts Tipsy
Penny Crofts Connecting Family, Connecting Friends
Barbara Mathews My Granddog Tipsy
Terry Wolverton Requiem
Julie Daws The Canine Clown
Judy Barber Jim and Friends
Louise Allison Alice and Rupert and Dianne and Louise
Pauline Meemeduma A Suitable Girl Becomes a Suitable Boy
Dai Le At the End of the Day . . .
Powhiri Rika-Heke Her Father to a ‘T’
Barbara Palmer and Kay Graham Bunny the Stringybark Farm Dog
Kristin Headlam In Bed With the Animals
Section Five Dogs Who Make a Difference
Belinda Morris My Hairy Little Saviour
Barbara Heinzius and Martina Love Me, Love My Dog!
Sandy Jeffs The Adoration of the Dog’s Eye
Lyn Zboril Lyn and Ralphie
Emily Ballou My Poet
Kiersten Coulter The Zorya
Libby Hotchin Finn and Me
Elizabeth Diane (Judy) Kelly The Story of Buffy: A Small Dog
Delanie Woodlock smile forms in the place of scars
Ursula Blattman Branka
Sandi Hall Home Comforts
Shannon-Caroline Taylor Memories of Love Honoured
Section Six The Dogs of Our Lives
Moira Rayner Good Dogs, Heaven and Me
Rose Zwi A Tale of Two Dogs
Cathie Dunsford Watch Out for Falling Apples in the Garden
Alison McMichael Dogs I Have Loved
Kirstie Murdoch and Rye Senjen Haikus for Cassis
Anne Coombs Dog Spirits
Susan Varga Women and Their Dogs
Diana Mummé Terrier Woman
Sherron Dunbar Monkey and Other
Barbie Burton Angel
Jan Fook The Dogs of My Life
Judy Horacek
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