Sugar The Lucky Puppy

Sugar: The Lucky Puppy By: Dr. Floyd Boschee After being abandoned on the side of a road, poor Sugar the puppy is left all alone. That is until Susan discovers her, taking Sugar to her new home! Sugar loves her new home and couldn’t be any happier. That is, until she escapes the yard through the fence. While out on her adventure from home, Sugar catches her leg in a trap, causing irreversible damage. This children’s story shows the empathy and support that a pet, who is handicapped, can provide.

"...Maybe it's the past that creates what's now; and what's now creates the future..." One thousand yards away from the ocean, at the base of the foothills of the Koolau Range, The Lucky Dog Inn stands empty, decaying in the sun and salt-sea air. A legendary bar on the north shore of Oahu, it long ago was closed and abandoned. In his fifties, Jack Walker's life in Denver falls apart, and he is pulled into a place he's always hidden: his family's past and the island of Oahu. Moving to Hawaii he drifts until, in an odd and fateful way, he meets a woman, Billie Francis. Their search into the past brings them to The Lucky Dog where curious blends of fate and destiny begin to form.

Have you ever wondered why so many dogs seems to be suffering from weight issues? This excellent little book provides the answer: modern dog food. The author explains the effect processed dog food has on a dog's body and how, by switching to a biologically appropriate diet, the weight will, literally, drop off. The diet itself couldn't be simpler. You can get all the ingredients from a butcher or supermarket and it is easy and quick to prepare. Best of all, it works.

From Beth Kendrick comes a hilarious and heartwarming story about bad dogs and the women who love them… Lara Madigan has a gift. She can help you find your soulmate--your canine soul mate, that is. As a dog trainer with a soft spot for strays, she’s found the perfect home for sulky Shih Tzus, broken-down Border Collies, and diabolical Dalmatians. But while she’ll always make room for one more rescue mutt, she’s not sure she’s ready to commit to another human being--especially after her long-term boyfriend drops the bomb: He’s not a dog person. Horrified and temporarily homeless, Lara and her furry pack move in with her mother, a wealthy fashionista who forbids even a single drop of drool. As word gets around the exclusive gated community, Lara is overwhelmed with demands for her services. A model wants personal training for her overweight “flabrador”; an aging socialite preps her pedigreed puppy for dog show domination.... If Lara can survive the breakup, the outrageous requests of her high-maintenance clientele, and her dogs' systematic destruction of her mother’s McMansion, she might finally find the rescue dog who rescues her in return--by leading her straight to the guy who could be her perfect match.

In the desolate wilderness of the snowbound high country, Hagger, a fugitive haunted by his dark past, stumbles upon a forgotten mountain cabin. Within its walls, an unexpected encounter awaits him—a lone white bull terrier, abandoned and left to the whims of fate. As Hagger's hardened heart softens, a bond forms between man and dog, leading to a transformative journey of redemption and self-discovery. 'A Lucky Dog' is a gripping tale of unlikely companionship, where the power of compassion and loyalty becomes a beacon of hope, offering Hagger a chance at redemption he never thought possible.

'You'd think that when you see someone hit the floor right in front of you that you'd remember some telling, cinematic detail. The arc of the cigarette through the air, for instance, or the expression on the man's face. All I remember, though, is the curly-tailed dog looking up at me with the sort of expression that says, "Well, that just about puts the tin lid on it."' After his mother's funeral, Dave Barker's life takes an unexpected turn. A total stranger drops dead in his office, for starters. A good deed leads him into the company of powerful men who want to be Dave's friend. His girlfriend can't get enough of him. So what exactly is Dave's problem? And then there's the dog...

When walking the French Quarter and watching a Lucky Dog salesman set up that colorful cart and call out to entice customers, don't you wonder how such a business works? As a knowing review in Rolling Stone stated, "People have always loved the cart and harbored a mysterious need to ride it. Revelers have been known to climb on top of the rolling wienies, screaming 'Yippee kaya!' as vendors stoically push them back to the barn at 4 a.m." Since 1947 the red and yellow carts have trumpeted good fortune and sustenance. Jerry E. Strahan recounts the wild adventures of the Bourbon Street wienie salesmen but also takes readers well beyond New Orleans. In fact, he takes them halfway around the world, where this unique pushcart business maneuvered its way through the bureaucratic red tape of a communist country to become a licensed corporation in the People's Republic of China. In China, two points quickly became apparent to Strahan. First, 99 percent of the Chinese population had no idea what a Lucky Dog cart represented. One elderly passerby declared it to be a missile. Second, the success or failure of any joint venture in the Asian nation is directly proportional to the political clout of that company's local partner. Lucky Dogs also recounts how the business and its vendors survived Hurricane Katrina. Miraculously, it reopened only six months after the storm in a city where more than 80 percent of the landmass had been flooded and where less than 40 percent of the population had returned. To reestablish itself in what many described as Third World conditions, the company had to transform its operation. This work mixes business history, autobiography, survival story, and an insider's look at the bizarre lives of some of Bourbon Street's most quirky characters--the dauntless Lucky Dog vendors. Both humorous and tragic, though it may read like fiction, it is, for better or worse, all fact.