Working dog heroes
By: Steve Austin with Hazel Flynn
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Sydney, NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780733334399
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Dog trainers; Anecdotes; Working dogs; Animal shelters
Other titles: Working dog heroes :; How one man gives shelter dogs new life and purpose.
Description: A great Aussie yarn packed with inspiring stories of shelter dogs that have been given new life and purpose - and turned around the lives of others. Steve Austin isn't your average dog trainer. In this feelgood, yarn-laden memoir he shares amazing stories from a career of rescuing and training shelter dogs to become a crack force of K9s, culminating in his work for the 'Young Diggers' program, which pairs specially trained dogs with returned Diggers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and more, with astonishing results. A down-to-earth Aussie larrikin of a bloke with a gift for telling a great yarn, Steve Austin trains extraordinary, elite dogs for vital missions internationally in the fields of drug enforcement, environmental protection and much much more. From drug detection to penguins, cane toads and even truffles, and from the icy conditions of Macquarie Island to the LAPD, if you need something detected, Steve's got a dog for that.
Notes: "ABC Books"