Book details of 'Flawed Dogs: The Year End Leftovers at the Piddleton "Last Chance" Dog Pound'

Title	Flawed Dogs: The Year End Leftovers at the Piddleton "Last Chance" Dog Pound
Author(s)	Berkeley Breathed
ISBN	0316713597
Language	English
Published	October 2003
Publisher	Little Brown & Company

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Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and children's picture book author Berkeley Breathed crafts a remarkable, hilarious, and yes, even poignant celebration of "flawed dogs": "The bent and plain,/ The unbalanced bod,/ The imperfect people/ And differently pawed." At the core of this "2004 Catalogue of the Piddleton Dog Pound's Very Available Leftovers" is Heidy Strudelberg, "Garbo, Joan of Arc, and Mother Teresa of the nation's unwanted dogs: a reclusive warrior-saint of poundpups." Breathed reveals how Heidy was ousted from the high-falutin’ vanity dog breeding world when she awarded a muddy three-legged street mutt the Westminster Best in Show ribbon. Now, it seems, Heidy has retreated to the Vermont mountains to run the Last Chance Dog Pound, where defective dogs go for one more attempt at getting adopted. The bulk of Flawed Dogs, once you've laughed your way through the introductions and formalities, is a gallery of pathetic pups with accompanying verses. A picture of an extra-long Dachshund startling the dishes right out of her mistress's hands, is captioned thus: "Here’s Sal, it seems no one wants her./ Her ends will stroll off and wander./ A long doggie weenie/ Of noisy linguine/ Sal barks at her butt way down yonder." Dog lovers will be all in a tizzy to get their hands on this crazy, wonderful salute to blemished beagles and faulty foxhounds everywhere. (Ages 8 and older)
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Bipsie had been bought to replace The dearly departed SweetfaceA beauty in blues With some parts chartreuseShe clashed with the whole bloody place.Dog fans of all ages will love FLAWED DOGS, the annual publication of the fictional "Last Chance" Dog Pound, in the small town of Piddleton, Vermont. Pulitzer Prizewinning Berkeley Breathed, whose books for adults and children have sold a whopping eight million copies, is at the top of his form with his riotous depictions of these imperfect dogs and their original, dissatisfied owners. Berkeley Breathed is a Pulitzer Prizewinning editorial cartoonist. His comic strip, Bloom County, ran for years in newspapers worldwide.