Although there was a dose of the intimacy of domestic life in each essay, this varied from the rawness of alice hiller's Because Rescues Go Both Ways by alice hiller to Chris Pearson's historical, contextual and almost scholarly essay, Walking Through the Past and Present with Cassie. 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'. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. I am always drawn to books with dogs on the cover but most of the time I put them back on the shelf (I’m sensitive and self-aware). For me a real highlight was Child-Friendly by Ned Beauman, in which Beauman spends the entirety of the essay trying to convince the reader that he is not a paedophile, despite his adorable little dog's tendency to attract pre-teen girls.

These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.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. This anthology promises to bring - much as our four-legged furry friends do - joy and delight, and surprising depth and poignancy.

These essays are sometimes toothy, sometimes bloody, and sometimes gentle: much like our four-legged furry friends. 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.It goes beyond the wet snouts and wagging tails and gets to the heart of what makes dogs our true lifelong companions. There were some I really didn't get along with - Ned Beauman's being the worst as he seems to think because he's a tall man with a little dog in a park people would presume he's a paedophile and it was such an odd take that he was so consistent with in his story, it was really off-putting.

We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. The essays were surprisingly intimate, as if the authors' dogs provided a window into their domestic lives, whether that be current or remembered, that might not otherwise have been exposed.It goes beyond the damp noses and wagging tails and gets to the heart of what makes dogs our true lifelong companions. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.