Dirty Bow Wow by Cheryl Katz, Jeffrey Katz
My rating: 5/5 cats
DOGS! AND! TOYS!
this is a book of photographs of dogs and their favorite toys.and it doesn’t get much better than that.
some of the pictures are good just because the dog is so damn adorable
and in some you can’t even see the dogs
and some, well…
but i gotta confess – i was a little disappointed. after reading Chewed, Dirty Wow Wow and Other Love Stories: A Tribute to the Threadbare Companions of Childhood, and Much Loved, i expected there to be some wear on these toys, because that’s what i loved about those other books – the transformation of an object after it had been through the wringer of love. after seeing what humans put their favorite toys through with their loving snuggles, some of these”objects of affection” were just too clean to be believable. it looked like the toys were just plucked off the shelves and dropped in front of these dogs for the purposes of the picture:
and this doggie is just missing the spirit of the book altogether.
but cue the sarah mclachlan. some of the accompanying stories are heartbreakers. if i never read the word “machete” in the same sentence as the word “dog” again, it will be too soon. seriously. it makes me want to slow-torture people and then go run down to the shelter and
but this doggie recovered from his ordeal. and i am happy for that, but i also want you to all go out and get a shelter dog RIGHT NOW THANKS.
i am so glad i finally got my hands on a copy of this, because if i can’t have a doggie, this will do for now.
