Customer Reviews

Bad Dog: 278 Outspoken, Indecent, and Overdressed Dogs

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I'm a diehard dog lover and I also love books of wit. I appreciate clever photos and good, snippy bogus captions. Nonetheless, I did not find "Bad Dog" to live up to its promise. I hate to say it but this book is no "Bad Cat."

This latter used the natural expressions of felines and some candid photography to really make a witty little coffee table and gift book. "Bad Dog" tries to do the same but ultimately fails. It fails because it relies mainly on staged photos of dogs in silly costumes instead of on the natural expressiveness of canine faces and the wide varitey of breeds, not to mention the interesting places dogs end up.

Yes, there are some cute costumes and some witty captions here, but on the whole, the book is only mildly amusing. I am afraid that I cannot recommend "Bad Dog" as a gift or even for one's own light perusal. If there comes a third volume in this series, we can hope it will be titled "Bad Editor!"

I really enjoyed reading this book in Borders, but I did notice it has more sexual- and body function-related humor than BAD CAT, its predecessor. I'm not offended by that kind of humor (although I don't usually find bathroom humor all that amusing), but it left me feeling the book didn't belong in the same class as BAD CAT.

I was glad to see BAD DOG, being a dog lover, but I wish it had been as funny as BAD CAT. I can see where some parents wouldn't want their kids to read this book. Still, there are some funny photos and pages, so it's worth a peek for the adults or older kids.

If it's true that humans and canines have been hanging out together for 14,000 years, then this book is looooong overdue. These dogs have been wearing our pajamas, our bunny ears, our glasses, and French cuffs, our wigs and our sweaters, our jeans and our muffs for fourteen doggone centuries now, and it's high time that we chronicle their impertinence, their clumsy attempts to assimilate, and even impersonate us, so that their treachery can be seen for what it is. I mean, for dog's sake, these things are even thinking our thoughts, now. They're shop-lifting. They're wife-swapping. They're reading Eudora Welty. They seem to know no bounds and it has got to stop!! We must be very clear about who is still the Boss on this planet, once and for all. Rosen, Pritchett, and Battles have done a great service for humanity because one look at this book will convince you that deep down, these dogs are just bad to the bone.

I agree with the other reviewers that this book is not in the same league as Jim Edgar's BAD CAT, but you gotta admit the dogs are adorable ... doo-doo and drool or not!

I recommend that parents check it out to see if any of the "bath-room humor" is too offensive for their children.

My children are all grown, so I bought it for myself ... I enjoy a good laugh, and the doggie photos made me laugh out loud.

Heaven for dog people; sweet revenge for cat people. The photos are over the top and the captions are way dry and witty. Every time I laughed out loud, our Wheaten Terrier jumped on my lap. Must have happened 30 times. Funny, funny stuff.

Okay, I work with animals on a daily basis and being in the field I am you need a twisted sense of humor when it comes to dogs. I laughed so hard reading this book that people in the adjoining areas had to keep coming over to see what was so funny. This book may offend some people who do not have dark sense of humors but if you do and you love dogs then this is the the book for you.

Sooner or later, every dog owner utters the words, 'Bad dog!'" the authors say.

With 244 pages of dogs in various stages of "dress" or doing things that your dog did and you always wished you had taken a picture, but didn't, dog owners will relate. I know I did, did you just hear me say, "Bo, no, bad dog, stop that!"

The authors have written funny captions for each picture and below is the dog's name, age and "hobby.

It could be the dog on page 147, a cute bischon dressed in a neck bandana and huge red sunglasses. Lara Bar is 3 and her hobby is President of Welcome Wagon. Lara's quote is "This community started to go downhill as soon as they allowed cats in."

Personally I've never been into "pet dressing" -- except for a sweater on a cold Minnesota walk, but enjoyed the creative words and dog staging. A dressed-as-a-clown terrier says it for me: "I'm getting too old for this _ _ _ _."

Armchair Interviews says this is a cute gift book for any adult dog lover.

I will agree, these dogs were definitely overdressed. Almost every dog has on an outfit. 95% of the pages were either bathroom or sex jokes. These just weren't funny. There's even a picture of a dog peeing. Wow, hilarious. Glad I didn't buy this, I read it in the store. The captions aren't funny, the pictures aren't funny. It would be an insult to purchase this for a dog-lover. Unfortunately, since the size and format are the same, it leads one to believe that it's by the same author as Bad Cat, which was hilarious and worth multiple readings. This book is NOT by the same author.

I disagree with the poor reviews, but I feel a person's own sense of humor has a lot to do with how the book is perceived.
I will actually be gifting 8 or so copies of this item to a few dog-owning friends and family members who are dog-lovers and have a good sense of humor. I will not be giving it to children or anyone else who may find the material objectionable. But it says in the title "Outspoken, Indecent, and Overdressed" so I think it is pretty obvious that there may be some crude jokes and costuming....but they are funny captions that many of my friends and family will enjoy. (one aunt in particular, I know will laugh herself right out of her chair and probably rip pages out for her refrigerator!!!) But we are not a super-uptight family. The costuming on the dogs is quite funny too...I'm also going to get an extra copy for myself that I can rip apart for my favorite pages.

First of all I have to say the book is defiently worth the money. It dosent have a ton of funny parts but the parts it does have are enough to make you and/or a friend crack up. The only problems are that it dosent have many hilarious pages and its not as good as bad cat. If youre looking for book that will make you laugh then get bad dog and bad cat but if you have to decide which one get bad cat, although bad dog is good enough to buy.