Another Good Dog
One Family and Fifty Foster Dogs

I loved reading about this honest journey from innocent new foster mom to seasoned pro. Sometimes the mistakes were the best stories! So many of these dogs stories made my heart swell and I am so grateful for people like Cara and organizations like OPH. You may have even convinced me I can be a fost......more

Everyone who is involved with rescuing dogs and cats are saints. I find books involving that to be inspirational, whether it is people who rescue one or more, or open an organization to rescue animals, or in this case, someone who fosters dogs to get them out of kill shelters, socialize them, and he......more

I wanted to like this book a lot more than it wanted me to. The parts about the dogs were mostly great! I love dogs, I love what she has done to help them. However... "Mostly I didn't want people to think the book was a lot of whining about first-world problems from overprivileged women. But maybe it......more

I have always loved dogs. As a little girl, I put my stuffed poodle toy under my pillow at night for the poodle fairy to come and replace it with a real poodle. It wasn’t until I was thirty-five that I finally got to have a real live dog of my own. Since then I’ve had more than twenty-five dogs, hik......more

About 25 years ago, I worked as a volunteer in our local shelter. At that time, 80% of the dogs and 90% of the cats ended up being euthanized. Thanks to people like Cara Sue Achterberg, those numbers have improved drastically. In Another Good Dog: One Family and Fifty Foster Dogs, Cara Sue tells of......more