Kat Socks is an award winning and 1# best selling author. Her books include Pickles the Dog, Adopted in North Dakota, Pickles the Dog, A Christmas Tradition, Pickles the Dog, Goes to School, In Loving Memory A Child’s Journey to Understanding a Funeral and Starting the Grieving Process, In Loving Memory A Child’s Journey to Understanding a Cremation Funeral and Starting the Grieving Process and Babies of the Badlands. The Pickles the Dog series was inspired by a real dog named Pickles. She was at an animal shelter in Minot, ND during the flood of 2011 and kept getting returned to the shelter. Eventually she ended up with a family member of Kat's, and boy are we glad she did because Pickles is one of the sweetest dogs around.