"My Doggie Says..." receives "Honorable Mention Award" for non-fiction in the 2007
DIY Book Festival.
My Doggie Says ...
Messages from Jamie
Fred M. Haney
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Price: $12.95
Paperback | 93 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9785515-0-6
Summary
My Doggie Says… is about a golden retriever named Jamie and her ability to communicate with her people, Fred and Barbara. Through different actions and body language, she sends messages like, “I really want to go swimming now,” or “Could I please have a puppy treat,” or “How come Okie-Dokie the cat is sleeping on my puppy pad?” The book contains eighty-five full color photographs to illustrate some of Jamie’s special communications. The reader learns how to become a better pet “listener” and how to create a more nurturing relationship with a pet. Every dog lover sees his, or her, own pet, past or present, in Jamie. The book helps people to gain a better understanding of their pet and to build a more meaningful relationship with it. The book touches readers’ hearts right where they connect to their beloved pets. It brings even more joy to their pet experience. All pet-lovers, but especially dog-lovers, enjoy My Doggie Says… It reminds them of their own pet, and it makes them more aware of their pet’s communication. For some, it brings back memories of a pet from the past. For others, it encourages them to be more open to their pet’s communication and to work at building a stronger bond. Some cat-lovers have said it made them think about getting a dog. A number of senior citizens have enjoyed the book, as have young readers. One ADHD student, who had never read a book all the way through, amazed his teachers by reading My Doggie Says… from cover to cover.
About the Author
Analytic by nature (his Ph.D. is in Computer Sciences, from Carnegie-Mellon University), Fred began to see patterns in Jamie’s messages. In 2001, he started to capture Jamie’s body language in a collection of informal snapshots. By 2004, he had assembled hundreds of images, and he began writing brief stories about them. The result is My Doggie Says... In his “other life,” Fred is a high-tech venture capitalist and angel investor. He has managed a large venture capital fund and served on the board of directors of thirty companies. He is presently the Chairman of two companies, and he is a co-founder of DRC, Inc., a super-computer co-processor company, and NovaDigm Therapeutics, a biotech company developing a vaccine for candida and staph infections.
