My Dog: The Paradox - A Lovable Discourse About Man's Best Friend (Volume 3), by The Oatmeal and Matthew Inman (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2013, 32pp HC, $9.99) Review by Skye Anderson
Cartoons Never Go Out of Style
Should this book be labelled for adults only? And for boys in middle school who like scatalogical jokes?
Man's Best Friend, in this case, was a dog named Rambo who was half Shih Tzu and half Grizzly but, no matter what his mix actually was, in Author Inman's cartoons, Rambo looked like a roly-poly sausage with frog eyes. (Actually he resembled most of the mammals Inman drew.)
A collection of eye-opening truisms about living with a dog make up this little book, like how dogs are so afraid of cats and vaccuum cleaners but not garbage trucks. They will roll in poop or dead fish but several times a day will lick their own nether regions. They sometimes eat things twice: first, the normal way, and then they upchuck so they can eat things again. They are lousy at telling time: if you are gone for 6 minutes to go out and collect the mail or gone all day to the office, dogs will welcome you the same. They will apologize when you accidentally step on their tail.
But do they really love us as we love them? They don't even know our names!
Dogs are true paradoxes. Is that why we love them so? Read Inman's book - or just look at the pictures - and find out. Then buy How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You.
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