Kate’s 2¢: “Buck’s Best Dogs: Private Dog Training and Socialization Groups: a Comprehensive Approach to Training Your Dog” by Graham Buck

“Buck’s Best Dogs: Private Dog Training and Socialization Groups: a Comprehensive Approach to Training Your Dog” by Graham Buck

NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares her thoughts about what she reads. Inho…

   I was anxious to read Graham’s book, as I was one of his first two student at Guiding Eyes for the Blind in September, 1989. He trained me with my first guide god, Future Grace. She was a fabulous Golden Retriever guide dog and I realized this young man had a future in working with canines and people. I still use what he taught me although I’m on my 6^th guide dog.

“Buck’s Best Dogs: Private Dog Training and Socialization Groups: a Comprehensive Approach to Training Your Dog.

Publisher: Xlibris Us

ISBN: 978-1664178649

Copyright © 2021 by Graham Buck.

Graham Buck, professional dog trainer, former guide dog mobility instructor, and published author. Graham is a devoted friend of the guide dog community.

 One of his many zoom meetings with guide dog handlers, graduates, puppy raisers, and friend of the guide dog community  was on July 17, 2024.

About the book from Graham: 

“This book began by providing documents on different areas of dog training, behavior, and management to my clients. As I started to put documents together, I soon realized that a book was beginning to take shape. This is a starting point of building dog understanding with people and their dogs.”

The book is available from Amazon and Kindle:

About Graham Buck

Graham is a professional dog trainer with a comprehensive approach based on the east end of Long Island, New York. He grew up with dogs and has trained them for 36 years. Many of you may know Graham from his 31 years at Guiding Eyes for the Blind training guide dogs and their handlers. During that time, he came to truly appreciate the need for consistency and repetition in order to develop reliable dog behaviors.

As Graham says, “When training guide dogs it is very important to be able to proof the shaped behaviors in real life scenarios.” He currently helps people and their pet dogs accomplish their goals through his extensive training efforts. Buck has developed an online library of audio training files Below are links to a few of his audio files

Audio Files:

Senior dogs and puppies: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/co1rqtouyef20q0zij7nf/Senior-Dog-Puppy.m4a?rlkey=kv40ofi5ndjzxdmwe4d33pbx4&dl=0

Dog food and nutrition: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/m0rspur3cheduj21wolxe/Dog-food-and-dog-nutrition.m4a?rlkey=ysgjeg8jj1kc8poze5iayee96&dl=0

you can read more about Graham’s background and work here: https://bucksbestdogs.com/about

Graham’s book is also available on BookShare, which where I downloaded it.

btw: guidedogbookclub@gmail.com has created a new email list serve just for the Guide Dog Book Club community.  To subscribe to the list, send a blank email to guidedogbookclub+subscribe@groups.io. Or request an invitation to be sent to your inbox by emailing guidedogbookclub@gmail.com.

Kate’s 2¢: “Dogwood Blossom: growing up Native American” by DeAnna Quietwater Noriega

“Dogwood Blossom: growing up Native American” by DeAnna Quietwater Noriega

NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares her thoughts about what she reads. Inho…

   Laurie Coiley Massing did a nice job of narrating this poignant book. The stories within this slim volume relate the bond the young Native American girl, named Dogwood Blossom, has with her family amidst poverty and prejudice.

   I like that DeAnna included several of the low-cost gifts and toys she made for her younger brothers and family members.

   I briefly met DeAnna when we were attending the American Council of the Blind conference in Rochester, NY. She is soft spoken and travels with a guide dog for the blind. She has also published a book about her many guide dogs and shared her stories with us during meetings of the Behind Our Eyes organization of writers with disabilities.

Bio from “Behind Our Eyes 2: A Second Look” anthology:

DeAnna Quietwater Noriega is half Apache and a quarter Chippewa, living in Fulton, Missouri.  She has been a writer and story teller since childhood.  She has had work accepted in four anthologies. Her writing has appeared in “Magnets and Ladders” and “Generations”, a native literature magazine. 

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

Dogwood Blossom: growing up Native American DBC11736

Noriega, DeAnna Quietwater Reading time: 1 hour, 15 minutes.

Laurie Coiley Massing A production of Perkins Library, Perkins School for the Blind.

Biography of Persons with Disabilities

Family

In Dogwood Blossom, the author invokes a simpler time and how it was growing up in a world that didn’t always accept her. Poverty and oppression are no match for the strong bonds among the members of this hardworking and loving family. The life lessons here will resonate with readers young and old. Adult. Unrated.

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Kate’s 2¢: “Philadelphia legal. Books 1-3” by William L. Myers, Jr.

“Philadelphia legal. Books 1-3” by William L. Myers, Jr.  

NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares her thoughts about what she reads. Inho…

   While I enjoyed these three stories, I came away with the thought that defense attorneys sometimes bend the law and use unscrupulous sources and tactics to make their case.

   Eva Wilhelm did a good job of narrating this book.

From the web:

William L. Myers, Jr., born in 1958 in Philadelphia, is a Philadelphia trial lawyer and the author of the best-selling Philadelphia Legal Series, as well as the psychological thriller Backstory. He has tried cases up and down the East Coast and has argued before the United States Supreme Court. He lives outside Philadelphia with his wife, Lisa.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

Philadelphia legal. Books 1-3 DB97214

Myers, William L, Jr; Myers, William L. Reading time: 34 hours, 2 minutes.

Read by Eva Wilhelm.

Suspense Fiction

Mystery and Detective Stories

Legal Fiction

Three novels, written between 2017 and 2019, feature Philadelphia attorney Mick McFarland and his coworkers. Includes A Criminal Defense, An Engineered Injustice, and A Killer’s Alibi, in which Mick must defend a mobster accused of murdering his daughter’s lover. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2019.

Downloaded: July 4, 2024

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