Heroic Dogs: True Stories of Incredible Courage and Unconditional Love from Man's Best Friend

by Lou Jefferson

Meet incredible dogs that went beyond what is expected of a man's best friend. They have shown extraordinary courage and unconditional love for their human companions. Read about their astonishing journeys. Dogs and humans have lived together for over 20,000 years. This is a book of true stories about actual dogs, the humans they knew, what they did – and what happened to them, The men and dogs who saved the children of an Alaskan town from a killer disease The men and dogs who ventured to find the North and South Poles – and the crazy lady who instigated the expedition to travel around the world from top to bottom and back, going across both Poles. How French poodles Winkie, Chinka, and Mickey helped save 150 men from the Nazis The exploits of two incredible American dogs in World Wars I & II One of the first Seeing Eye dogs in the United States And Barry, the dog who saved travelers in the Alps ... and began the St. Bernard breed Scroll back up and grab your copy today!

Genres: Nonfiction, Animals

132 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 20, 2015

Reviews

[Katja Labonté · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 stars. I didn’t realize this was indie published so at first I was surprised by how casual the writing is—almost like a blog or something. But it was pretty well done overall (I’ve seen some really bad indie history books).

In this collection, we have the stories of Balto, who saved a colony from diphtheria in the 1920s; Meriwether Lewis’ dog; several war dogs; the first seeing eye dog; and a couple family dogs (I do believe they’re all American or at least North American except for one that was born in Germany). They’re short stories (took me less than 30 minutes to read this) but they’re interesting, if very simply put, and the author impressed me as knowing what they were talking about.

Overall, it wasn’t as great as I hoped—more of a recital of facts than a story—but it was better than I expected.

[Heidi · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was really disappointed in this book. I didn't feel like it really showed any heroic dogs it was more about the people that had the dogs. I was expecting something different I guess.

[Mike · Rating 3 out of 5]

Poorly written

[Sheila Myers · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some interesting stories about dogs; however, many of the stories seemed to focus more on the background history and people. Also, the book needs a lot of editing.

[T. · Rating 2 out of 5]

I downloaded Heroic Dogs as a free book from Amazon. A few minor heroic tales, but poorly edited, bad spelling, questionably researched, unformatted, and too many redundancies. A fast read, as the book only reads to 80percent on my Kindle, but would not recommend to anyone looking for dog stories, especially as many of these stories are about stupid or abusive owners of dogs. Dog sledding to get medicine to dying kids? Yup, cool story. Military dogs? Love 'em. Sledding to the Pole knowing you'd be killing off half the dogs for food just so you can claim to be the first to get there- nope, should not have been included in this book.

[Andrew Western · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well written for the subject. I was not sure what to expect until I started it, but it turned out better than I first thought.

[Suzie Jo Glass · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love animals and I got this to read to my niece and the stories are short enough to hold a nine year olds attention. The stories are very nice and nice to read.