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|title=The Great Dog Disaster

|sort=Great Dog Disaster

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=9781847385987

|pages=208

|publisher=Simon and Schuster

|date=June 2012

|summary=An inferior choice in what is normally a bouquet of riches from this author, as a family and friendship are hit by the least-successfully canine dog imaginable.

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Suzanne's dad is shouting again, loud enough to be heard through the kitchen walls into the house next door, where Anna lives. He must think he sounds like a stuck record, saying for the umpteenth time they can't and won't have a dog as a pet. But what if it's left Suzanne in a will? Unfortunately, what gets delivered is nothing like the dreamt-of Cheetah or Bullet, but the most lumpen, lazy, poo-smelly attempt at a dog ever. And unfortunately, the attempts to train and exercise it involves Anna in lots of poo-smelly-bit shoving, and so much time and effort it could even break their friendship...

A non-fiction guide to the reality behind pet-owning of various sorts, for this audience, is [[Humphrey's World of Pets by Betty G Birney]].

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