The New Work of Dogs

Tending to Life, Love, and Family

by Jon Katz

Jon Katz writes about the new ways in which dogs contribute to the betterment of humans--no longer herding and retrieving, but helping people who are bereaved or lonely, sick or aged. To make his point, he supplies stories about a variety of people and the dogs they love.

Available editions of The New Work of Dogs

	9780375508141, Hardcover, Random House Inc, 2003 $1.00 (Used, Very Good) Other copies of 9780375508141

	9780375760556, Paperback, Random House Inc, 2004 $3.95 (Like New) Other copies of 9780375760556

Publisher Notes

In an increasingly fragmented and disconnected society, dogs are often treated not as pets, but as family members and human surrogates. The New Work of Dogs profiles a dozen such relationships in a New Jersey town, like the story of Harry, a Welsh corgi who provides sustaining emotional strength for a woman battling terminal breast cancer; Cherokee, companion of a man who has few friends and doesn’t know how to talk to his family; the Divorced Dogs Club, whose funny, acerbic, and sometimes angry women turn to their dogs to help them rebuild their lives; and Betty Jean, the frantic founder of a tiny rescue group that has saved five hundred dogs from abuse or abandonment in recent years.

Drawn from hundreds of interviews and conversations with dog lovers and canine professionals, The New Work of Dogs combines compelling personal narratives with a penetrating look at human/animal attachment, and it presents a vivid portrait of a community—and, by extension, an entire nation—that is turning to its pets for emotional support and stability in a changing and uncertain world.

Media Reviews

"Katz has a keen sympathy for the situations dogs can find themselves in. But here he has turned to social science and psychological theory as a way of understanding changes in the ways dogs and people live and work together."

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