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Book ReviewsFlawed Dogs: The Year End Leftovers at the Piddleton "Last Chance" Dog Pound |
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Book: Flawed Dogs: The Year End Leftovers at the Piddleton "Last Chance" Dog Pound
Written by: Berkeley Breathed |
Publisher: Little, Brown
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5
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Funny, but poignant with a sad, very important message
Rating:
5 / 5
If you ignore the beautiful but cartoonish pictures, and the rhymes that seem silly on the surface, and dig just below...you'll read heart-breaking stories of flawed pets who ended up unwanted at the pound, and who will probably be euthanized. I'm sure on one level, kids will just think it's a cute and funny book, so perhaps it *is* appropriate for 9-12 year olds. But adults with compassion will see through to the truth behind the humor - millions of unwanted pets are euthanized in the nations' shelters every year.
So, my message to you is - spay/neuter your pets, and don't breed or buy while homeless pets die in shelters.
Oh, and read "One at a Time - A Week in the Life of an American Shelter."
Brilliant
Rating:
5 / 5
My kids are all grown up, but I grabbed this off the new acquisitions shelf at the local library because the pictures were so great. And then we spent an evening at home with a bunch of fully grown, respectable (sort of) adults admiring the illustrations. It's written for a dog shelter in Piddleton, Vermont, and the poems contributed by the poetry club of that aspiring metropolis aren't at all bad. But the whole concept of these flawed dogs and the illustrations are just brilliant. Being a flawed dog myself, albeit of a different species, I appreciated the implied permission to get on with my life in spite of it.
Berkerly is God
Rating:
5 / 5
Okay, maybe my review title is a bit over the top, but forgive me. Bloom County was very important to me while in high school.
What a collection of misfits Berkerly collected here. Dogs too large, too winkled, too much fur, and some species-identity issues. What they all have in common though is they lacked a person who saw there true value: pets give total and unconditional devotion to their owners.
It is a sad fact of life that many would be pet owners are fine with the concept of a pet, but can't handle the reality of one. If there is any theme to this book it is to ensure that once you bring a pet home be ready to commit to it. My wife and I just brought in our third dog, now 13 weeks, it's a energtic bundle of fur and teeth that seems to delight in making puddles, but there is no way that Tess will ever end up Piddleton "Last Chance" Dog Pound.
And I highly recommend that every pet owner find the Piddleton shelter near them and go see in them what Berkeley saw in the animals he featured. Then take one of those animals home with you.
Oh, this book also makes a great baby shower gift.
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