With three locations of The Dog Bakery in the L.A. area and 7.5 million people who follow his social media campaigns to get animals adopted from shelters, Rocky Kanaka knows his four-legged friends.

YouTube creator, animal advocate, and television personality Rocky Kanaka is inviting fans to meet him in person this month to celebrate the nationwide release of his debut book, Sitting With Dogs.

When Rocky Kanaka first sat quietly beside a trembling, neglected dog in a shelter kennel, he didn’t know that moment would lead to a book connecting with readers across the country. But that’s ...