Risky Dishes for Rescue Dogs

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Risky Dishes for Rescue Dogs

You ever feel like this just isn’t your planet anymore?

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Hitch
8 years ago

Well, I’ll be the crash-test dummy. I stupidly actually went to the Amazon page (in the category of: “hunh?”) and I STILL DO NOT KNOW what the frack this “book” is about. I think it’s about 30, maybe 50 pages long; I got to what seems to be an intro, and that was the end of the LITB. Read what was there, and STILL don’t know. I mean, HELLO? Authors? Get out much?

Sorry, it’s just so damned irksome. You have, right there, in front of you, a massive FREE asset. Amazon itself. MILLIONS of books. All perfectly free to browse. You can even teach yourself to write, if you want, with a TEENY investment (say, 10 of the best books, from Swain to Brown and a few newer ones, like Ingermanson). For, let’s say, under $100.00. It’s not a CW101 class, but…it’s better than nothing. And time after time after time, it’s as though NONE of these folks have ever even SEEN a book or a cover, or front-matter. It’s boggling to me. BOGGLING.

And this cover is bad, too. What slays me is that for about $5.00, he could have licensed dog art from some of the terrific freelance illos guys that put their stuff on iStock or Fotolia, etc. That would have worked, FABULOUSLY, with a nice simple serif title. Right? Right. BUT Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. {stomps off in a fit of pique.}

Waffles
Waffles
8 years ago

Disclaimer: don’t serve a dog a big plate of chocolate.

ss7
ss7
8 years ago

Scruff MacGruff is rolling in his chocolate-induced coma somewhere…

Grackle
Grackle
8 years ago

I’ll say it: I love this cover. Maybe it’s the goofy, eager grin on that dog (who I have to assume is Howie ‘Homeboy’ MacScruff himself) or his giant baseball cap (thanks, Homeboy, I think I will ‘GO FOR IT!’); maybe it’s the twenty pieces of painstakingly cut-and-pasted junk food. I don’t know. It isn’t a good cover, but I think it’s a wonderful one anyway.

Viergacht
Viergacht
8 years ago
Reply to  Grackle

That is a cute doggie, I’ll give them that.

Nick
8 years ago

No om-nom-nom? You’re slipping, Nathan 😛

Rob
Rob
8 years ago
Reply to  Nick

Yeah, was just wondering that myself.

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
8 years ago

None of this is funny to me. People sicken or kill their pets by insisting on giving them people food treats because they (the people) like the treats and think it’s cute to share that way.

Amazon blurb includes: “Garlic, onions, chocolate, a cocktail here or there? Who says they’re gonna kill you? Not Howie.” Look Inside subtitle: “Gourmet Recipes for Dogs & Dog Lovers” and the free read part apparently advocates forbidden foods. Search the subject “Foods Forbidden For Dogs”.

(I am beginning to suspect “Howie” is a secret agent of the Legion of Evil Cats. “Vodka, crack, heroin, a weekend megashark movie marathon now and then? Who says they’re gonna kill you? Not Meowie *cough, shem* Howie.”)

Viergacht
Viergacht
8 years ago
Reply to  Naaman Brown

When I was a kid, the family dog ate all the candy from my Easter basket and he was perfectly fine (although I wanted to kill him) – but yeah, this is an exceptionally terrible book.

red
red
8 years ago

Posre: A naked babe from PETA should show up any minute now.

john e. . .
8 years ago
Reply to  red

I’d buy that for a dollar.