You're shamelessly in love with your dog. And his adoration for you would eclipse the moon. But is love all there is to your relationship? When you come home to find the trash can toppled and a few "surprises" on your rug, what then? Behind your best friend's doting gaze, ever wonder what's he's really thinking?
Here's your chance to find out. Based on the website www.dogfessions.com, this full color collection contains hundreds of handmade postcards that reveal the deepest confessions from dogs and their owners. From unabashed admissions ("Yes, I made that puddle 5 minutes ago") to thoughtful revelations ("I think I kiss the dogs more than I kiss my husband") to self-affirmations ("I do this deliberately to look cute"), you'll steal a glimpse into the lives of dogs and their dearest devotees.
Brought to life with photographs, illustrations, and collages, each Dogfession is uniquely hilarious, bittersweet, oddly random, heartfelt, or outrageously silly. All together, they are addictively compelling and compulsively readable. But don't say we didn't warn you: If you have a soft spot for dogs and secrets, you'll sit, stay, and roll over for this irresistible book!
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Nikki Moustaki, M.A., M.F.A., founder of www.dogfessions.com and host of MSN.com's web TV show Celebrity Pet Dish, is a dog trainer and animal expert. With numerous books and articles to her credit, she has been featured on national TV and radio shows and works to help pet owners take better care of their furry and feathered friends. Nikki splits her time between New York City and Miami Beach, Florida, traveling with her two schnauzers and three parrots.
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Product Details
Reading level: Ages 1 and up
Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins; First Edition edition (May 27, 2008)
With more than a half a million pet books in print and hundreds of articles on pets and their care and training to her credit, Nikki Moustaki is considered one of the country's leading pet experts. She also is an award winning freelance writer, animal trainer, and pet industry expert, and her tireless work feeding shelter pets with her innovative website, The Pet Postcard Project, along with her hands-on rescue efforts and vocal advocacy for homeless animals has led her to be dubbed "Saint Nik."
Nikki Moustaki is also considered an "Urban Dog Guru," specializing in training city dogs for their particular needs. She has published more than 42 books of nonfiction, primarily on the care and training of pets. Her pet books and articles have been translated into 5 languages. Along with working as a dog trainer, Nikki is one of the country's foremost experts on parrots, having authored more than 24 books on birds and their care and training. Her expertise in pets ranges from dogs and cats to fish and hermit crabs, and everything else in between.
An energetic, lively and personable TV and radio guest, Nikki currently hosts a pet-related cable show on The Beach Channel in Miami Beach, and she hosted, co-produced, and co-wrote the national NBC/MSN show, The Celebrity Pet Dish, with her Miniature Schnauzer, Pepper, as her co-host. Nikki has appeared on CNN, Howard Stern (XM Sirius Radio), NBC News, FOX News, CBS News, Martha Stewart Radio, BBC Radio, Animal Radio, Pet Talk Radio, and Talkin' Pets Radio, among others, and was the animal handler for the second season of the Tony Danza Show, where she often appeared on-air along with her parrot and dog. Nikki has also been featured in The New York Times, Glamour Magazine, The Humane Society Magazine, and Dog Fancy, among others.
Nikki also writes, collaborates and co-writes books on a variety of topics. She also created a canine focused blues album, Dog Training Tracks: A Musical No Bark Solution: Blues for Buster, for "alarm barkers" and dogs who suffer from separation anxiety.
A self-professed "pet product geek," Nikki also enjoys working as a consultant for pet product manufacturers, helping them brand, position, and develop their products and succeed in social media. She has worked on projects ranging from microchips to dog toys to pet food research and development. Her many years of expertise with pet products at both the consumer and the trade level give her unique insight, and she is able to communicate about pets and pet products in any medium.
Nikki's two primary interests - writing and animals - collide in her work, allowing her to travel through both the landscape of the literary writer and the interesting world of the pet industry. She writes feature articles for many pet-related magazines, including Dog Fancy, Popular Dogs, Dogs USA, CATS Magazine, Cat Fancy, Pet Product News, Bird Talk, Birds USA, and Water Garden News, among others. Nikki has written for Latina Magazine, the Village Voice, Jane, Time To Spa Magazine, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Magazine.
Her popular websites include The Pet Postcard Project, a fun and charitable site that raises awareness, food, and funds for shelter animals, and has raised over 120,000,000 pieces of kibble for shelter pets. The site has no advertising - all of her efforts are to help feed the homeless pets.
Nikki holds an M.A. in creative writing from New York University, an M.F.A. in creative writing from Indiana University, and an M.F.A. in creative writing from NYU. She taught creative writing at several universities for 10 years, including both NYU and IU, as well as at The New School in New York City. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant in poetry, and has been awarded many national prizes and honors for her writing, including two Pushcart Press nominations, and her poetry and essays have also appeared in various anthologies and college textbooks, including Poetry After 9-11: An Anthology of New York Poets, and America Now, chosen by Robert Atwan, editor of the Best American Essays series.
Before beginning her career as a freelance writer and editor, Nikki worked as an acquisitions and development editor at Macmillan Publishing and IDG Books Worldwide, Inc., where she specialized in the non-fiction market and edited more than 60 non-fiction titles. Nikki splits her time between New York City and Miami Beach with her two rescued Schnauzers, Pepper and Zoey, one rescued Schnoodle named Pearl, and two parrots. When she's not writing, you can find Nikki rocking out on the drums, teaching herself 80s metal on her Gibson guitar, rescuing dogs from the shelter, and working on her various charity projects.
Only if you have a sincere and devoted love for the dogs in your life could you possibly understand and enjoy this book by Nikki Moustaki.
When your dog looks at you with that intense gaze of love, what might he really be thinking? Does he know that he is guilty of a garbage-related crime in your kitchen, or is he just playing dumb (and cute!)?
What are the secret confessions of both dogs and their people? Do you tell your dogs your most secret of secrets? Do your dogs know more about you than your own spouse or psychiatrist? Well, the secret confessions of both dogs and their humans are all here and presented in such an amazingly cute and inventive way with photos, illustrations and collages that the real dog lover will instantly recognize the truth here, even though others may definitely not.
It's also nice to know that Harper Collins made a donation to dog-friendly charities in honor of Dogfessions -- a most wonderful book to own and give as a gift for the other dog-lovers in your circle.
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This is a unique collection of the best photos (each with an amusing phrase) submitted to the Dogfessions website. A "Dogfession" is a confession by a dog, or about a dog. They are almost all either very funny or quite touching and I really enjoyed them.
It's a coffee table book, so don't look for substance or facts here, look for laughter, heart-warming phrases and lots of cute (very cute) dog photos. No posed professional photos here, these were really sent in by loving owners (OK I confess I sent one, but I don't know the author nor do I get any payment except the fun of telling friends "Lacey's in a book.")
If you are a dog-lover you'll totally get the concept of this book. (If you aren't, you might still like the fun photos.) I laughed out loud at lots of the Dogfessions, but what surprised me most was how easy it was to identify with the touching "dogfessions" of other dog-lovers. Phrases like: "I told my dog I was pregnant before I told my husband." or "I missed a date just to stay home and watch my puppy sleep." are easily understood by those of us who are "owned" by our dogs.
The only negative I found is that the printer put a few of the photos across two pages and that took away from the impact of those shots, but it was only a few.
A couple of people who did not know my dog was in the book, recommended it to me, so there are some unbiased reviews. I may be biased, but I still recommend it highly. It makes a great gift for any dog-lover.
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Nikki Moustaki's wonderful book, Dogfessions, is a must for anyone who loves dogs. Even those who aren't dog people will find something to love in this wonderful collection of photos and captions from owners who know their own dogs only too well and are happy to share their dogs "confessions," or *dog* fessions in this case. It's a great book to leave out for guests to browse and is the ideal gift for dog owners.
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