You Are a Dog
Life Through the Eyes of Man's Best Friend
by Terry Bain You are a dog. You live with Those Who Might Bathe You, but you don't mind; Those Who Might Bathe You are also Those Who Would Put Their Plate on the Kitchen Floor After They Are Finished or Nearly Finished. You puzzle playfully over the meanings of many of the things your people do. You try to protect them from the vacuum cleaner and The Deliverer of Unknowable Packages. These names seem long, but in reality are not, because they are indicative of much shorter scent names. Your simplicity is charming and your cheerful ignorance humor.
For most of this book, "you" seems to be a definite character, but the first few essays throw doubt of this theory by suggesting many possibilities for who "you" is. This book does not attempt to replicate the way dogs actually think; it is the author's humorous reprisentation of what a very human-like dog might think; "you" is very personified. The library of congress classified this book non-fiction, but I'm not sure why. This book's essays are clumped by subject, but they might be more enjoyable read in a more random order. Some black and white(charcoal?) illustrations accompany the essays in this book.
Happy reading.
