The Dog Who Wouldn't Be
by Farley Mowat
2020-12-30 14:22:44
The heartwarming, classic true story of a dog who didnât understand heâs a dogâand the imaginative boy who loved him. Funny and poignant, The Dog Who Wouldnât Be is a lively portrait of an unorthodox childhood and an unforgettable...
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The heartwarming, classic true story of a dog who didnât understand heâs a dogâand the imaginative boy who loved him. Funny and poignant, The Dog Who Wouldnât Be is a lively portrait of an unorthodox childhood and an unforgettable friendship. Growing up in on the frontier of Saskatoon, Canada, the legendary adventurer and naturalist, Farley Mowat, received a gift from his mom: a dog she bought for four cents. Farley quickly named him âMutt.â Mutt displayed skills at hunting and retrieving that were either pure genius or just plain crazyâonce going so far as to retrieve a plucked and trussed ruffed grouse from the grocer. Mutt also loved riding passenger in an open car wearing goggles and climbing both trees and ladders â the perfect companion for a child with a love for animals and misadventures. Originally published for young people, this is a memoir by the author Never Cry Wolf that will delight dog lovers of all ages. âThe Dog Who Wouldnât Be was, and will forever remain, one of my first and deepest literary loves. When I first read it as a child, it became my âgateway bookâ to Farley Mowatâs other great works, books which inspired me throughout my life. Re-reading it as an adult . . . I fell in love all over again with the eccentric and talented Mutt, with Farleyâs boyhood adventures, with the wild Saskatoon prairie. This classic remains one of the best biographies of an animal ever writtenâa masterful tribute to the bond between an extraordinary boy and an extraordinary dog.â âSy Montgomery, author of Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind
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