Have you ever wondered what type of working dogs there are in New Zealand?
What sort of training the dogs have to go through?
Whether your dog might qualify?

Author, Maria Gill, interviews dog handlers and observes dogs on the job.

•	Meet an acting dog going through the moves in an advertisement.
•	See a mobility dog picking up the keys for his handler in a wheelchair.
•	Find the search and rescue dog that can trail scents 12 hours old.
•	Marvel the therapy dog that triggers the memory of a rest home elderly lady who cannot remember her own daughter.

And read about more dogs on the job in this engaging and fun-filled book.

ISBN 978-0-14-350280-7
RRP $20.00
Puffin, Penguin Group NZ Ltd
Review
A very informative picture book for small children that grown-ups will enjoy reading to them. Together you'll learn about the wide-ranging work that dogs in New Zealand can do to help people... Reviewed by Dr James Ramsden in Animal Talk, The Australian Women's Weekly Oct 2008

I was walking towards our local supermarket and I saw this scruffy little dog with a bib on it. A lady was selling raffle tickets for Dogs for the Deaf and I confess my curiosity got the better of me – I had to ask how do these dogs help deaf people. She told me they have a special signal every time the phone or doorbell rings. I had to know more... a spark of an idea for a book on working dogs began.

Now, most people think because I wrote the book that I'm probably 'dog mad' but I must confess I've always been a cat person. After interviewing the dog handlers and watching the dogs in action I developed a huge respect for these dogs on the job. Amy, a seven-year-old Labrador cross dog joined our family not long afterwards.

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