This book will make you laugh at all the stupid things we do for dogs and with dogs, while it treats us to some of the crazy things that dogs themselves do.

FORBES: What's Almost As Good As A New Puppy?

New York is a great town for independence, he says, but the isolation also creates conditions for quirky community: "You have more people here who will read your stupid posting while walking their dogs, and take time to write your number down and respond, than anywhere else, " he says.

WSJ: Couplets for Low Rents

The blacksmith felt his organs clench as the first of the dogs, the bravely stupid, half-blind shepherd, reached the tiger and immediately went end over end as the big cat lashed at and then pinned him with all its enormous weight.

NEWYORKER: The Tiger��s Wife