jjares reviewed on 2/10/2020 + 3292 more book reviews

The first surprise in this book was learning that David Rosenfelt was not born dog-crazy but married someone that way. It didn't seem to take long for both members of the new family to throw away all sense and become dog-crazier. However, when two semi-normal people decide to move from the beauty of Southern California to the hinterlands of frozen Maine, the reader is convinced that the author and his wife are full-blooded loopy.

The frightening thing throughout this book is that the author keeps asking others for suggestions on how to move from California to Maine with 25 large fur-balls. For some reason, people made suggestions (instead of offering free lodging in an asylum). Not to worry; David gets it together and off go 36 live beings down the road of happiness.

The fun part of this book is that it tells Rosenfelt's backstory. It tells how the Rosenfelts started the TARA Foundation and started absorbing Golden Retrievers and other savable pets. Rosenfelt keeps Tara's memory alive by mentioning her in each of his novels (although she died years ago).

Between tales about individual pets, Rosenfelt shares the wild-and-wooly trip they all took in 2011.
Rosenfelt also tells amusing facts about the Andy Carpenter series, like the fact that the publisher put a golden retriever on the cover of (what was supposed to be) the last Andy Carpenter novel. However, with the dog picture, the sales of the books went wild. Rosenfelt assures us that there will always be dogs on every cover, from now on. This is a charming story about dog-crazy individuals meeting more of the same and having a wild adventure.

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