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UPDATE!!!

If you send us a picture of yourself posed with one of the books, Dr. Becker has offered to record the message on your answering machine or voicemail!

Get the books, send us your pics!

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Next week is the official launch of “The Ultimate Cat Lover” and “The Ultimate Dog Lover,” starting with Dr. Becker’s appearance on “Good Morning America” on Wednesday and continuing with more TV, more interviews and more more more. (The books have really been for sale for about three weeks now, although the publishing date was Oct. 1)

I’m really delighted with how the books (”The Ultimate Horse Lover” will be out in three weeks) turned out. The stories are incredibly well-written, and many left me either laughing or crying, depending on the subject matter. The “Must-Know” information is something I’ve never done before: Instead of interviewing experts and writing up what they told us, we went to a top expert in every subject, and asked them to tell us what they know, directly. That means our collection of advice is expert, and then some, and all-start line-up of the best you can get.

And the pictures! Troy Snow, formerly of Best Friends and now free-lancing, was the lead photographer for the dog and cat books, and Sarah Andrew took the lead on horses. But we also invited images from everyone, amateurs and pros alike, and the pictures are gor-geous.

Dr. Becker and I asked the publisher to put together a little sample r– two stories, two “must knows” and two pictures — for each book, FREE and EXCLUSIVE for our Pet Connection readers, online and in our client newspapers. We’ll have them ready for downloading on Monday.  The links will be in the free Pet Connection electronic newsletter first, so be sure you’re signed up.

In the meantime … do you have the books? Take a picture with them — just one is great, too! — and send it to me for posting in the blog. I’d just love to see what you, our regular readers, look like, to put faces with the names.

Now, the people below I’ve already met: Russell and Nadine Long. That’s because they put together my first-ever book reading last April, at the Del Norte County Library in Crescent City, Calif. Russell is the librarian there, and you can tell they’re both working to get me to choose to relocate to extreme Northern Coastal California with this picture:

The Longs are up first, but who’s next? Take a picture with the books in your hometown, with your pets if you can, and we’ll post it!

And if you like the books, do us a favor and post a review on Amazon.com (click on the links above to get to the right page).