A reading list
For anyone who has brought a rescue dog home, or is thinking about it. These books show rescue dogs the way their families know them, and every one of ours helps the next dog still waiting.
Giving one for Christmas? Please order soon: the last day for delivery anywhere in Australia is about Monday 7 December. Christmas order dates
Every dog in our books was photographed by Living Image Photography, beside a few lines from its family. Some of those families found their dog through a rescue, and say so.
Jesse and Tilly, among over 200 German Shepherds
Jesse's page puts it plainly: "German Shepherd Rescue Victoria came to my aid and helped me find my forever family." Tilly is a rescue her family says has changed their lives.
See the book, $150
Joey, among over 250 dogs
Joey, a Kelpie cross Border Collie, was surrendered young to Homeless Hounds. These days, her family says, "She doesn't care what she's doing as long as she is with someone."
See the book, $150Each of our four books also gives to rescue. How the books help rescues
The longer stories behind some of the rescue dogs in the books, told with their families.
Two books by others that we would happily give anyone who has adopted. Each opens at Booktopia, which posts within Australia and to New Zealand, with Waterstones beside it for buyers further afield.
Andrew Grant
Portraits of 325 rescue dogs, made to help shelter dogs find homes; it will speak to anyone who has adopted.
Sally Muir
Loose, warm paintings of rescue dogs, each with its own personality; a good fit for anyone who has taken in a rescue.
Beck Feiner and Robin Feiner
Lucy adores her adopted greyhound and gives him everything, so why is Clyde still not happy? A gentle story about what a rescue dog really needs.
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PetRescue's Amazing Dog Stories, published by Penguin, is by Vickie Davy, a founding director of PetRescue, and Saskia Adams: over 100 true stories of dogs, told by volunteers, vets and the families who adopted them.
For photographs, Take Me Home! by Andrew Grant, portraits of 325 rescue dogs made to help shelter dogs find homes. For paintings, Rescue Dogs by Sally Muir. For true stories, PetRescue's Amazing Dog Stories. Our own two, German Shepherds of Australia, Volume One and Shoot the Dog, Volume Two, are $150 each and carry rescue dogs in their families' own words.
Clyde the Greyhound, by Beck and Robin Feiner, is a gentle picture book about a girl and her adopted greyhound, and about what a rescue dog really needs.
Yes. German Shepherds of Australia, Volume One has raised over $22,000 for German Shepherd Rescue Victoria, and across the books more than $100,000 has gone to Australian animal shelters.
