Dog Hearted: Essays on Our Fierce and Familiar Companions

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My favourite essay was Jessica Pan's The Master List as I think she endeared herself to me the moment she spoke about wrestling with a slobbering rottweiler as well as showing her terrified husband how she could put her head in his mouth and 'he could kill me but he chooses not to'.

I looked forward to this new routine and it encouraged me to read more regularly and consistently - I would recommend this book be read this way, in little chunks. I needed a set of easily digestible, well written, and comforting essays about the best thing in the world… dogs. yes, i’ve read all four of them) probably because they were mostly personal, with only one being more scholarly. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report.

Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. This anthology promises to bring – much as our four-legged furry friends do – joy and delight, and surprising depth and poignancy. It goes beyond the damp noses and wagging tails and gets to the heart of what makes dogs our true lifelong companions. A good book to pick up and read a chapter or two, or for some inspiration for writing about the commonplace, yet transcendent furry companions in our lives. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

All of dog life is here, and this charming book shows how much poorer our own lives would be without them. Just as it was refreshing to have the funny piece by Ned Beauman, or the historic look by Chris Pearson, amid mostly melancholic ones. These essays are sometimes toothy, sometimes bloody, and sometimes gentle: much like our four-legged furry friends.We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from.

These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall). After an hiatus of two years, I was delighted to read that Daunt Books would be publishing another collection of essays this year, having enjoyed their past collections, particularly In The Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life. I assume most people who want to read this book are dog lovers and while I didn’t love every story, I could appreciate the insights shared. This anthology promises to bring - much as our four-legged furry friends do - joy and delight, and surprising depth and poignancy.

All in all it was alright, I just wish there was some more elevated prose essays, even just to change the pace up, instead of very simple, article like writing with little individuality or self expression on the author's part. dogs are honestly such special animals that we somehow just let into our homes, onto our furniture, even in our beds, and we get to know them on such a microscopic level that sometimes they feel like humans.