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“ A  moving page-turner of a memoir from an accomplished trainer who shifts from the work of search and rescue to that of psychiatric service dogs. ”— The Boston Globe After a grisly search-and-rescue operation led to troubling consequences for author Susannah Charleson, she found that her relationship with Puzzle, her search dog, made a surprising contribution to her own healing. Inspired by that experience, Charleson learned to identify abandoned dogs with service potential, plucking them from shelters and training them to work with disabled human partners, to whom the dogs bring assistance, comfort, and hope. Similar to her  New York Times  bestselling first book,  Scent of the Missing , Charleson’s  The Possibility Dogs  goes beyond the science that explains working canines to tell the stories of the dogs themselves. Like Merlin, a black Lab puppy who had been thrown away in a garbage bag and now stabilizes his partner’s panic attacks. And service dog Jake Piper, a formerly starving pit bull mix who went from abandoned to irreplaceable. This heartwarming combination of memoir and research is sure to both inform and inspire. “For everyone who is interested in the human animal

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Author

Charleson, Susannah

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (www.hmhco.com)

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299901971

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Pets, Social Science

Rating

4.17 / 5 (861 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14