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Bad Dog: A Love Story
Written by Martin Kihn
Narrated by David Drummond
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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Meet Hola. She#8217;s a nightmare, but it#8217;s not her fault if she tackles strangers and chews on furniture, or if she runs after buses and fried chicken containers and drug dealers. No one ever told her not to. Worse yet, she scares her family. Hola may be the most beautiful Bernese mountain dog in the world, but she#8217;s never been trained-at least, not by anyone who knew what he was doing.#160;#160;Hola#8217;s supposed master, Marty, is a high-functioning alcoholic. A TV writer turned management consultant, Marty#8217;s in debt and out of shape; he#8217;s about to lose his job, and one day he emerges from a haze of peach-flavored vodka to find he#8217;s on the verge of losing his wife, Gloria, too, if he can#8217;t get his life-and his dog-under control. #160;#160;Desperately trying to save his marriage, Marty throws himself headlong into the world of competitive dog training. Unfortunately, he knows even less than Hola, the only dog ever to be expelled from her puppy preschool twice. Somehow, together, they need to get through the American Kennel Club#8217;s rigorous Canine Good Citizen test. Of course, Hola first needs to learn how to sit. It won#8217;t be easy. It certainly won#8217;t be pretty. But maybe, just maybe, there will be cheesecake.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/53.5 stars (rating shown may vary depending on site).This book was one I picked up at a book sale when I needed a few more to fill the bag. It was more interesting than I thought but also contained a few more twists than I'd realized--most of those related to the humans.I was glad there was a happy ending.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Have you seen the TV shows about how training dogs helps prisoners gain a sense of self-worth, responsibility and joy? This book, Bad Dog by Martin Kihn shows how developing a routine of training and unconditional love have helped him pull away from the abyss of alcoholism. It is not so much a story about Hola, a Bernese Mountain dog as a man’s struggle with alcoholism,the destruction of a marriage and the difficult road back. Dog training can become an obsession, in this case, a good obsession.Martin’s wife had wanted a dog,she didn’t even recognize at the time what she really wanted was for Martin to stop drinking and so that they could rebuild their marriage. She thought a dog would make her happy. They picked a dog from a breeder and named the dog Hola. Hola was not the typical Bernese Mountain Dog. She was unusually intelligent, gorgeous, exuberantly affectionate and extremely active. Because Hola was different from others of this breed, it made the task of training Hola much more difficult. Marti had never trained a dog before. I really liked this book. I am a sucker for books about dogs but this definitely had a twist to it. There is a lot of humor and hope in this book as the author goes on his journey away from alcoholism and towards better human relationships and loving dog relationship. Since I was curious about the AKA, this breed and different kinds of training I enjoyed it even more but some may not. I was hooked early in the book and it was difficult to lay it down.