At the start of each chapter is a small sketch of the dog being talked about by C.E. Mitchell. Although the sketches are cute, I’d prefer a photograph of them. My favourite story was about Caesar, the Great Dane.
Here are some of my favourite quotes from the book:
“ ’You have him with the sheep?’ I asked Olaf. He nodded. ‘Last Year I lost forty-three to coyotes,’ he said. ‘This year not a one. He likes to guard things, doesn’t he?’ I thought of Dirk chasing Happy down the street, and later spitting out bits of his pants and I smiled. ‘Yeah, he sure does.’” – pg 53
“And so this man brought Caesar, who looked more like a Tyrannosaurus Rex than a dog, into our small cottage.” – pg. 69
“…Caesar licked his face – an experience which I think could be duplicated by sticking your head in a car wash – but the effects were the same as if he’d attacked. The package went up in the air and crashed to the ground with a sound of breaking rockery…. The delivery man wet his pants and in a cloud of dog spit and dust clawed his way free, ran back to the truck and was gone before I knew exactly what had happened. Soon after, we received a polite note saying that that particular
company would no longer deliver packages to us.” – pg 84