Long Live Dog-Book!

By Warren Krupsaw

If you like ferrets, this is a good book. As a long-time ferret enthusiast and keeper, nature photographer Warren Krupsaw illustrates and tells the story of his last ferret: how acquired and named, various adventures (and misadventures), companions (alive and stuffed), until the final end.

Contributing to the book's uniqueness is that, while for the most part, it's written in first and third person singular, it also includes portions in "first ferret singular."

Besides the story itself, there's a ferret poem and ferret-inspired psalm.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 27, 2020
• ISBN: 9781796082791

Warren Krupsaw

With a B.A. from Harvard College (1965) and a M.F.A. (Photography) from R.I.S.D. (1968), nature photographer (Landscape, Detail, Animals, and anything in-between) Warren Krupsaw's greatest influence has been the work and writing of Edward Weston with his concern "to perceive more clearly than the eyes can see" and "to reveal the essence of the thing." Always of the belief that "if you can see it, you can photograph it" and taking the time for close observation, his subjects often reveal themselves in wondrous ways. As a kind of "visual organizer," he also closely identifies with Weston's contention that "Composition is the strongest way of seeing." While having traveled extensively in the past, currently most of Warren's time is spent locally exploring the visual significance of the commonplace. His self-published book: "Portraits of Passion and Other Dalliances" is available from Xlibris. His work can be seen at Pbase.com/thekrupgallery.

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ISBN:        Softcover            978-1-7960-8280-7

                Hardcover            978-1-7960-8281-4

                 EBook                 978-1-7960-8279-1

Rev. date: 01/25/2020

(cover) Dog-Book in Brown Towel

LONG LIVE

DOG-BOOK!

Contents

Chapter 1 How Dog-Book Got Her Name

Chapter 2 Dog-Book And The Apple Crate

Chapter 3 A Day In The Life

Chapter 4 Pages From The Dog-Book

Chapter 5 A Big Surprise

Chapter 6 Crickets, Cockroaches And Cactus?!

Chapter 7 Another Close Call

Chapter 8 The Kola Effect

Chapter 9 Kola And The Computer

Chapter 10 Kola’s Big Adventure

Chapter 11 Kola - The Final Chapter

Chapter 12 Flossie

Kola Is My Ferret

Chapter 13 9-11

Epilogue How Goopie-The-Good Got Her Name

Ferrets

Dedicated to

my wife

June

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Baby Ferrets in Coconut Shell

Chapter 1

HOW DOG-BOOK

GOT HER NAME

Admittedly, D-B sounds a lot cuter and surely any description of her would include cuteness, but she represents so much more.

After euthanizing our beloved black-eyed white Luna Moonbeam (Goopie-the-good) at 9-plus years a few months after her nine-year old cinnamon companion Cindy (Schmink-da-mink) had undergone the same final exit, my wife and I had pretty much decided no more ferrets. Certainly not because we didn’t like them, but because we grew so attached, the pain of their loss was not something we wanted to experience again. I even went so far as to call our local ferret shelter to alert them that we would be making a donation in the form of a very nice (Super-Pet) ferret cage, litter pans, water bottles, hammocks, toys, food, etc.

Maybe a cat; at least they live longer. Maybe nothing at all; we still had two frogs, a tarantula, and four snakes. But I wanted something with fur; maybe even (dare I say it) a dog. At 55 years of age, I’ve never had a dog; plenty of cats, but never a dog.

The Siberian Husky has always impressed me by their handsome appearance (although I think the mixed eye-color is weird) and has a reputation as a good companion animal so we figured we should at least learn more about them…

Believing our local pet shop might have some information (maybe even a book) we headed there and sure enough there was a series book about Siberian Huskies.

There were also two ferrets remaining from a litter of nine: a male sable who never stirred and a beautifully marked mitted shaded silver female who introduced herself and proceed to charm us. Had I been alone, I probably could have resisted, but The Wife was oohing and ahhing and pointing out what a great personality she had, didn’t bite, we already had all the accoutrements, etc., etc.,