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Bad Dog: A Love Story (2011)

by Martin Kihn(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0307379159 (ISBN13: 9780307379153)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Pantheon

review 1: Why train your dog? This tale will let you know why. It's a memoir about a man who bottoms out with alcoholism and joins AA. Meanwhile, his dog displays bad behavior including biting his wife. She leaves them. Martin stumbles his way back through sobriety by picking up a new obsession with training that was thrust on him by his AA sponsor. There are references to several training methods and works not mentioned in Cesar's Rules: Your Way to Train a Well-Behaved Dog. There's plenty of black humor in this survivor's tale.
review 2: I may be a bit biased as I am a dog-lover, but I adored this story. At first, the writing turned me off a bit, but once I got used to the author's style, I really loved it. The story was endearing and the relationship between the ma... moren and his dog has to be able to be understood by just about any dog-lover. I loved the way he wrote what the dog was thinking when he was in conversation with her in the spastic, food-centered way we assume our dogs must think. The story had me both laughing and welling up on more than one ocassion. I'd recommend it to anyone who loves a good love story and their dog! less

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