Dogs – posts relating to dogs. Seems fairly self-explicable if you ask me :)
Dogs – posts relating to dogs. Seems fairly self-explicable if you ask me :)
The Last family in England by Matt Haig
Also published as The Labrador Pact. I really had no idea what to expect from this book, it was simply sitting with the returns at the library and looked vaguely interesting....
21 August 2017
The curious history of Irish dogs by David Blake Knox
There are nine breeds of dog that are native to Ireland: four terriers, three gun dogs, and two hounds. In The Curious History of Irish Dogs, David Blake Knox tells the...
17 April 2017
The Russian army is polite, but menacing. Impossible to defeat.
It’s been quite a while since I’ve done a non-book/film post here. I almost don’t know how to start them anymore. So, let’s see, what’s been going on. Well, this summer...
1 September 2016
The Genius of Dogs by Brian Hare, Vanessa Woods
“Brian Hare, dog researcher, evolutionary anthropologist, and founder of the Duke Canine Cognition Center, and Vanessa Woods offer revolutionary new insights into dog intelligence and the interior lives of our smartest...
19 September 2015
Woof – wip
This one isn’t finished yet, but I can’t give up my weekly resolution on week 2. That would just be wrong.
12 August 2015
Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
Rose often finds life hard. She has autism, or asperger’s, what they call “high functioning autism. She is slightly obsessed with homonyms and with prime numbers. She keeps a list of...
12 March 2015
The dog by Kerstin Ekman
One day, in the depths of a Swedish winter, a little grey puppy gets lost in the woods. He had followed his mother as she followed the snow ski, but he...
6 December 2014
Beautiful Joe by Marshall Saunders
Available on Gutenberg Beautiful Joe is the story of a dog, a mongrel whose first owner abused him, going so far as to chop off his ears and tail. He was...
11 August 2014
A girl called Fred by Roger Willgoose
Roger Willgoose isn’t really a dog person. It is his wife really who decides to bring a dog into their home. But gradually this little Yorkshire Terrier, renamed Fred, worms her...
24 May 2014
Clever dog by Sarah Whitehead
illus. by Jo van Kampen. I’ll admit that I’ve watched a fair amount of Cesar Milan and his dog whispering, but while the television show entertains me, and he certainly seems...
27 April 2014
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