Cool Cats Hot Dogs

I meow. I bark. I've got claws. I've got paws. I chase leaves. I chase thieves. It's the battle of the breeds when the family cat and dog start to spat over who is the superior animal. Like sparring siblings, when Cat says he's got fleas, Dog insists that his are itchier. If Cat is crafty, Dog is cunning. Cat can play the fiddle? Well, Dog can howl at the moon. Is there anything they both can agree on?

Wie Hund und Katz Johanna ist fast 13 und liebt Katzen über alles. Daher ist sie superglücklich, als ihre Mutter die "Katzenboutique" ihrer Tante übernimmt. Für Johanna ist es der Himmel auf Erden: Katzen-Adventskalender, Katzen-Tarot, Katzengeschirr, Katzensofas, Kratzbäume, Katzenleckereien, Katzenspielzeug, Futternäpfe, Bürsten - sie vermitteln sogar Katzensitter. Doch dann eröffnet schräg gegenüber das "Hundeparadies"! Und der Sohn des Besitzers ist ausgerechnet der nervige Mädchenschwarm aus ihrer Klasse, der auch noch Johannes heißt! Johanna fährt die Krallen aus. Schnell bricht ein Konkurrenzkampf aus, der seinesgleichen sucht. Bis Johanna sich eingestehen muss: Hunde sind doch ganz okay, und Johannes ist eigentlich ganz süß ...

These frisky felines know how to relax and have fun. But when some mischievous mutts come along and try to liven things up, the fur really starts to fly!

The focus of this book is on stressful experiences and emotional reactions. The common perspective is that self-related cognitions play an important role in describing and explaining the subjective experience of stress, anxiety and depression and the impact on academic performance and social interactions. The assumption of self-related cognitions as mediators in the regulation of one's behavior has a variety of consequences for different fields of applications in psychology.

Tells the stories of over 1,000 beastly words and phrases in highly informative and fascinating essays you will turn to again and again.

'I'd never been given a cuddle in my life, been read a bedtime story or called anyone mum or dad.'In the dead of night, the authorities swooped on the tinker camp. It was the middle of winter but the tents were still warm. This time they took Sandy Reid and his sister Maggie into care. Sandy was just one year old and he would never see his mother again."Sandy Boy" is the true story of what happened to Sandy Reid and to many other tinker children. Removed from his family and their way of life, Sandy was put into care for the rest of his childhood and denied access to his mother, his father and his family. This is also the story of the abuse he suffered - regular beatings at his foster family, cruelty at a children's home and, later, systematic abuse. Without any love or affection, Sandy became uncontrollable and at the age of eight he was sent to a psychiatric unit and separated from his sister, the last link he had with his family. Soon after, a chance meeting led to the discovery that his mother had died. It would be another six years before he got the letters from his mother that proved that she had never stopped looking for him.Letters that had been opened and read by the authorities but deliberately kept from him.This is the shocking story of how a child's life was destroyed and of a stolen generation, snatched in the night and forbidden from seeing their families. It's also the story of how one boy endured terrible hardship and deprivation and how he survived against all odds.