The Puppy Diaries : : Raising a dog Named Scout

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"An instructive and marvelously entertaining chronicle of a puppy's first year, by the managing editor of The New York Times One sparkling summer day, Jill Abramson brought home a nine-week-old golden retriever named Scout. Over the following year, as she and her husband raised their adorable new puppy, Abramson wrote a hugely popular column for The New York Times's website about the joys and challenges of training this rambunctious addition to their family. Dog-lovers from across the country inundated her with e-mails and letters, and the photos they sent in of their own dogs became the most visited photo album on the Times's site in 2009. Now Abramson has gone far beyond the material in her column and written a detailed and deeply personal account of Scout's first year. Part memoir, part manual, part investigative report, The Puppy Diaries continues Abramson's intrepid reporting on all things canine. Along the way, she weighs in on such issues as breeders or shelters, adoption or rescue, raw diet or vegan, pack-leader gurus like Cesar Millan or positive-reinforcement advocates like Karen Pryor.What should you expect when a new puppy enters your life? With utterly winning stories and a wealth of practical information, The Puppy Diaries provides an essential road map for navigating the first year of your dog's life"-- Provided by publisher.
"A work of narrative nonfiction that will chronicle the author's first year with her Golden Retreiver, Scout, based on her blog of the same name from The New York Times"-- Provided by publisher.

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Puppies submitted by rjsjwilliams on July 8, 2015, 10:24am Jill Abraham got a new golden retriever named Scout. She had a blog written about him and people from all over sent her e-mails, letters, photographs of their dog's antcs. She decdedto write a book about her and her husband's and Scout's fun during the frst year. She also included facts about raising dogs, food, etc. I keep thiking each time she wrote something funny about Scout, I would say it was the funniest, but each time got funnier and funnier. So you can skip around the factual stuff, if you like, though it is interesting, and just pick up on the fun stuff.