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Leashes and Lovers: What Your Dog Can Teach You About Love, Life, and Happiness [Paperback]

Sheryl Matthys (Author)
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March 5, 2010
Hear from dog lovers like Cesar Millan, Howard Stern, and Rachael Ray. Unleash the Secrets to a Better Life...with the help of your dog! Looking for WHAT can turn your life around and lead you to Love, Life, and Happiness? Well, in Leashes and Lovers, the secrets are revealed of how your DOG holds the key to your life's happiness! You'll discover what your dog can teach you to attract the life you want, and improve your relationships whether with a special someone, a spouse, or your friends and family. Sheryl Matthys, The Dog Expert - The Dog Lovers Matchmaker provides tips, advice, and stories and interviews with dozens of dog lovers like YOU as well as from celebs like the Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan, Law and Order star Richard Belzer, Tennis star Monica Seles, actress Crystal Hunt, author Lee Harrington, author Dr. Stephen Ilardi, author Dr. Steven Parks, author Lauren Slater, author Sharon Sakson, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit star Diane Neal, Access Hollywood's Maria Menounos, Academy Award Winner Marcia Gay Harden, Shock Jock Howard Stern, TV host Rachel Ray, and more! Author Sheryl Matthys reveals how your four-legged friend can lead you to better relationships with the humans in your life. In this book, you'll discover how to: * Launch a new relationship * Strengthen relationships with a lover, friends, and family * Create deeper and more real relationships like you've never experienced * Explore what's missing from your life and how to make it whole * Make the best of a break-up and decide who gets the dog * Handle your emotions when others just aren't into your dog Sheryl Matthys is The Dog Expert(r), Dog Lovers Matchmaker, and founder of LeashesandLovers(r), an online community of dog lovers as well as a certified dog trainer with degrees in psychology and communications.

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About the Author

Sheryl Matthys is The Dog Expert(r) and The Dog Lovers Matchmaker. She talks with dog lovers about how their dogs impact their lifestyle and relationships. She is the founder of LeashesandLovers(r), an online social community for dog lovers, where you can establish friendships and relationships or browse a pet-friendly business directory to improve your dog's life. Sheryl believes that everything you need to know about great relationships with people can be discovered through your relationship with your dog, if you allow your dog to guide you and teach you the secrets of Love, Life, and Happiness. She wants your new and existing relationships with that special someone, your friends, your family, and your dog to be successful so you can become One Happy Pack. Sheryl brings a unique blend of experience to her insights. She's a professional speaker, author, actress, adjunct professor, entrepreneur, TV/Radio reporter and host, Greyhound rescuer, and certified dog trainer with a BA in psychology and a master's in communications. Sheryl and Leashes and Lovers have been featured on Animal Planet, Ambush Makeover, E!, Bravo, and Sirius-XM, Animal Radio, Pet Life Radio, and in The New York Times, USA Today, FIDO Friendly, Modern Dog, BARK, The Wall St. Journal, and Entrepreneur Magazine, and at FOXNewsChannel.com as well as hundreds of other newspapers, websites, magazines, and TV - radio stations around the country and the world. She and her husband have two young children, a Greyhound and reside in New York.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 254 pages
  • Publisher: Leashes & Lovers (L & L Media) (March 5, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0982636563
  • ISBN-13: 978-0982636565
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,234,152 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Sheryl Matthys, The Dog Lovers Matchmaker & The Dog Expert

Sheryl Matthys is The Dog Lovers Matchmaker & The Dog Expert, who talks with dog lovers about how their dogs impact their lifestyle and relationships. Sheryl is the Founder of LeashesandLovers.com - an online social community for dog lovers, where you can establish friendships, relationships or browse a pet-friendly business directory to improve your dog's life.

Sheryl believes that everything you need to know about great relationships with people can be discovered through your relationship with your dog: IF you allow your dog to guide and teach you the secrets of love, life, and happiness. For dog lovers, she makes sure your new and existing relationships with that special someone, your friends, family, and dog are successful so you can become One Happy Pack.

Sheryl brings a unique blend of experience to her insights. She's a professional speaker, author, actress, entrepreneur, TV/Radio reporter & host, columnist for FIDO Friendly Magazine, Greyhound rescuer, and certified dog trainer. Sheryl is originally from South Bend, Indiana where she graduated from St. Joe High School, Butler University in Indianapolis with a BA in Psychology and a master's in Radio/TV. Sheryl taught communications at the University of Notre Dame, St. Mary's College, and Indiana University -SB. She worked as a TV news reporter for WLFI - Lafayette, WNDU - South Bend, and radio news at U93. Sheryl is also a former Indiana Pacer Professional Cheerleader.

Leashes and Lovers - and Sheryl have been featured on Animal Planet, E!, Bravo, Sirius-XM, The New York Times, USA Today, ABC NEWS NOW, Fox & Friends, Martha Stewart Living Radio, FOXNewsChannel.com, Entrepreneur Magazine, FOX5 New York, FIDO Friendly Mag, Ambush Makeover, Modern Dog Magazine, as well as hundreds of other newspapers, websites, magazines, and TV/radio stations around the country and the world.

She and her husband have two young children, one Greyhound and reside in New York.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Is your dog a better, happier person than you?, April 7, 2010
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In the interest of full disclosure, I must admit that I have known Ms. Matthys for nearly 20 years. I purchased the book to support an old friend and found it an truly enjoyable read.

The stories are thought provoking, and some are very heartwarming. She talks a lot about friends and acquaintances, but leaves quite a bit of herself on the page too. I learned a few things about Sheryl that I didn't know while reading it.

I also admit that I saw myself in some of her metaphors. The book provided me with an affirmation of that I am doing right in my life, and also suggestions about where improvement can be made.

With a title like Leashes and Lovers, you might think that the book is about using your dog as an icebreaker in the world of dating and mating. But, there are more important lessons in the book about how the mental attitudes of dogs can teach each of us in how to live a better, fuller and more enjoyable life.

A story that is particularly instructive is about how dogs search out the right "playmate". Dogs will spend 55 minutes of the hour that is available finding the right friend and 5 minutes enjoying themselves rather than spending the whole hour with the wrong playmate. Most of us can relate to this.

This reviewer is also a dog lover and over the years my dogs have taught me to be more generous and compassionate in my life.

A long time ago, I read that "Good writers read, and good speakers listen." Ms. Matthys seem to have embraced this. She counsels that we all need to be more attentive to the verbal and non-verbal cues coming from the people we communicate with. We need to listen more, talk less and pay better attention.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good dog!!!, April 1, 2010
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Whether it's dog - dog, human - dog, human - human, it's that bond that keeps us all getting along, better behaved, and allows us to enjoy the best possible relationships. Dogs and humans 'think' and experience emotion differently but we can can learn a ton from each other and improve each others lives - and Sheryl Matthys hits that nail right on the head! The perspective of celebrities, random dog lovers and dog experts makes this a FUN, Fun, fun and interesting read!!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A useful and entertaining "must read!" for anyone who's ever loved a dog, March 21, 2010
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Mirror, mirror on the wall...I can't believe my DOG is the one who can tell me all!

I had heard that dogs were great sources for learning about yourself, but author Sheryl Matthys finally takes the time to write a book about it so we all can benefit from the knowledge she's accumulated over the years as an interviewer, avid dog lover and certified dog trainer.

Witty, insightful, and just all around entertaining. Although some of the stars of the book may be full of fluff, the book certainly is not. I couldn't put it down, and neither will you!
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