Helen A. Bemis has enjoyed working with dogs all her life. She is grateful for the opportunity to help others understand these loving companions, as she endeavors to enrich the human-dog bond through tools of love. She grew up on a dairy farm in Upper New York State; after graduating high school, she attended Albany Medical Center School of Nursing. She is married and has three children. She obtained a college degree at SUNY Adirondack, earned the Certified Professional Dog Trainer international certification and has a successful business, K-9 Karing. She has been a Therapy Dog evaluator and is an A. K. C. award evaluator. She has judged fun dog matches, often speaks to many organizations and teaches dog safety and other dog-related topics to schools as well as at her local college. UNDERSTANDING LADY is Helen Bemis’s twelfth Riverview Animal Shelter book.
Understanding Lady, A Cocker Spaniel with Chutzpah
A Riverview Animal Shelter Mystery Novel
by Helen A. Bemis
Understanding Lady, A Cocker Spaniel with Chutzpah
A Riverview Animal Shelter Mystery Novel
by Helen A. Bemis
Published Nov 05, 2021
93 Pages
Genre: FICTION / Family Life / General
Book Details
Who Would Dognap a Pup?
What is chutzpah? Dictionary.com gives as synonyms “nerve” and “audacity.” The word is Yiddish, and its roots go back to Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus Christ. The dog in the book’s title, Lady, has chutzpah. She is a canine force of nature. When her first owner, “the old man,” dies, pregnant Lady, then temporarily at the Riverview Animal Shelter, becomes the pet of criminologist Alice, a woman with a full supply of audacity herself. Her husband, Art, is the RAS veterinarian. Before leaving RAS, Lady gives birth to two pups, and Alice and Art and daughter Katie adopt both Lady and one puppy, Princess. Soon Alice would have a crime puzzle: from RAS, someone steals Lady’s brother. Who would dognap a pup? And why?
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