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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 Contact:
Linda or Allen Anderson
Angel Animals Network
POB 26354, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55426
Email: angelanimals@aol.com, Phone: 952-925-3309, Fax: 952-925-4729
Websites: www.angelanimals.net, www.rescuedsavinganimals.net, www.angeldogswithamission.com
Santa Rosa Author Featured in New Dog Book
Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 4, 2008
– Santa Rosa’s Bonnie Bergin is a best-selling author and founder of Canine
Companions for Independence and the Assistance Dog Institute. In the mid-70s
she invented the concept of a service dog assisting people with mobility
impairments by training a rambunctious Lab-golden retriever named Abdul. Bergin
says, “Abdul and other dogs taught me how remarkable dogs can be.” The story of
Bergin, Kerrill Knaus-Hardy, a young woman with lifetime muscular dystrophy,
and Abdul is featured in a new book, Angel Dogs
with a Mission: Divine Messengers in Service to All Life by authors, Allen
and Linda Anderson (New World Library, October 1, 2008). The book is a
collection of twenty true stories about dogs who found their purpose in life
and gave without expecting a return.
Bergin’s
Assistance Dog Institute (www.assistancedog.org)
in Santa Rosa is the only university offering masters and associate of science
degrees in dog studies. Bergin has received numerous awards including Oprah
Winfrey’s Use Your Life Award and the Council on Disability Rights Individual
Achievement Award. Bergin is author of Bonnie Bergin’s Guide to Bringing Out
the Best in Your Dog and Teach Your Dog to Read.
Allen
and Linda Anderson are founders of the Angel Animals Network
(www.angelanimals.net), inspirational speakers, clergy members, and authors of
the award-winning Rescued: Saving Animals from Disaster as well as nine
other books in the popular Angel Animals series.
Marc
Bekoff, PhD, professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the
University of Colorado, Boulder, and faculty member of Bergin’s Assistance Dog
Institute, wrote in the foreword for Angel Dogs with a Mission: “This book will
change your life and the lives of those with whom you share it.”
As
with the hugely popular Marley & Me, dog lovers will be inspired and
entertained by the dramatic human-and-dog journeys in this new book. The
amazing stories provide laughter, proof that miracles are possible, and tears
-- the good kind.
Amelia
Kinkade, author of Straight from the Horses Mouth, says, “This book is a
tribute to the fact that many of our most effective doctors, nurses,
therapists, police officers, emotional counselors, rescue workers, and
spiritual teachers have four legs instead of two.”
New World Library, ISBN-13:
978-1577316022, ISBN-10: 1577316029, Black & White Photographs,
Trade paperback. Available at bookstores nationwide, Internet bookstores, and
at www.shop.angelanimals.net
(autographed by authors).
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