

The Second Chance Dog
A Love Story
Author: Jon Katz
Narrator: Tom Stechschulte
Unabridged: 7 hr 39 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 11/12/2013
Categories: Nonfiction, Pets
Author: Jon Katz
Narrator: Tom Stechschulte
Unabridged: 7 hr 39 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 11/12/2013
Categories: Nonfiction, Pets
Jon Katz has written over twenty books, including Talking to Animals, Soul of a Dog, Izzy & Lenore, Dog Days, A Good Dog, and The Dogs of Bedlam Farm. He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Rolling Stone, Wired, and the AKC Gazette. He has worked for CBS News, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Katz is also a photographer and the author of a children’s book, Meet the Dogs of Bedlam Farm. He lives on Bedlam Farm in upstate New York with the artist Maria Heinrich; his dogs Izzy, Lenore, and Frieda; and his barn cats, Mother and Minnie.
I love animal books and i used to love Jon Katz. But this one is more about his divorce and remarriage and is just kind of whiny and self absorbed. he never even mentions his wife's name although they spent thirty years together and raised a child. Instead we get a glimpse of his extramarital affair......more
Well! This book was a bit of a departure from most Jon Katz books. That said, I still loved it. Jon bares his soul about his emotional problems, sometimes making me most uncomfortable feeling like a voyeur watching him falling apart. He meets a woman every bit as frail as he is who owns a shepherd-......more
This is very different from the author’s other books, but I enjoyed it just as much.......more
This may be one of the most enligtening books on love out there. It was the sweetest love story between Katz, his wife and her dog. It also was in a sense about how Katz learned to love himself in the process. Being a single woman with a strong-willed guard dog, who also happens to have a healthy pre......more
I got frustrated with this memoir at times as it was about a man, younger woman, and antisocial dog, well, really all of them were antisocial. I guess the bottom line is that love heals all, but I wondered why they would make life so difficult for themselves by trying to make a life with other damag......more