Forget Kids – Get a Dog

By Alex Hallatt

Do you love dogs more than kids? Do you think that dogs are easier, cheaper, and more fun to raise than children? Do you enjoy the unconditional love, loyalty, and companionship that dogs offer? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you.

 

Forget Kids – Get a Dog is a hilarious and heartwarming collection of cartoons by Alex Hallatt, a British cartoonist and dog lover. In this book, she shares her observations and experiences of living with dogs, and compares them with the challenges and joys of parenting. She also pokes fun at the stereotypes and expectations that society has for dog owners and parents. Whether it's about training, feeding, grooming, playing, travelling, or socialising, she shows why dogs are better than kids in every way.

 

This book is a perfect gift for anyone who loves dogs, or anyone who needs a good laugh. It is also a great way to celebrate the bond between humans and their canine friends. Forget Kids – Get a Dog is a book that will make you smile, chuckle, and nod in agreement. It will also make you appreciate your dog even more.

 

Forget kids – get a dog.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Moontoon Publishing
• Release date: Apr 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393922964

Alex Hallatt

Alex Hallatt is a cartoonist and writer, who has lived in the UK, US, Australia, Spain and New Zealand (where she currently lives with her partner, Duncan). Her illustrated experiences of living in the coastal town of Hondarribia, Spain have been published in A Basque Diary. Being bullied at school is something Alex remembers vividly and she wouldn't want it to happen to anyone else. It inspired her first chapter book for 8-12 year olds: FAB (Friends Against Bullying) Club. FAB Club was a big hit with kids and the sequels: FAB Club 2 - Friends Against Cyberbullying and FAB Club 3 - The Big Match are out now. Alex is also the creator of Arctic Circle, a syndicated comic strip, distributed worldwide by King Features. It is about three penguins who have emigrated to the Arctic and has an underlying environmental theme. Her tongue-in-cheek single panel comic, Human Cull, appears on GoComics.com and the best of them are found in the bumper Book of Culls. Doodle Diary is another panel running on GoComics.com and includes Alex's New Zealand Diary and Reasons to Be Cheerful. Alex's preschool book, Hoover the Hungry Dog, features a greedy yellow dog who first appeared in a website about lunch. The website is no more, but Hoover was too fun a character to disappear with it. Alex also illustrates books for other publishers, including Walter Foster, Hachette Livre and Summersdale. More of her cartoons can be seen at www.alexhallatt.com, where you can sign up to her illustrated epistle to see what she is working on now.

Book preview

INTRODUCTION

Kids are great. When they are well-behaved and belong to other people. When you can play with them and their marble runs and hand them back before tears set in. When you can treat them to ice creams, but you don't have to pay for them to go to university. When you can read them a bedtime story, but don't have to go near them when they are hosting a mucus-borne, highly contagious disease.

Having children made sense in the days before social security, pensions and retirement homes. Children were slave labour on your farm or in your factory and it was worth having more than a couple, as few of them survived into adulthood. When you became too old to work for yourself, they took on more of the burden and looked after you, too. Now they are more likely to sell your house, put you in a home and visit you as little as their conscience allows. And you wouldn't expect or ask