The Dangerous Book for Dogs
A Parody
By Joe Garden, Janet Ginsberg, Chris Pauls, Anita Serwacki and Scott Sherman
Review By Lauren and Jonathon Parrish

  Editors Note: This issue of Boys Behavior features a couple of guest book reviewers. We purchased The Dangerous Book for Dogs because we enjoyed The Dangerous Book for Boys so much we were hopeful that we would get a good laugh out of the book. While the book has some redeeming qualities, as you will read below, it also contains a number of unacceptable humor (unfortunately the crude type that can be appealing to boys) that ruins the book. The book is written as a parody of The Dangerous Book For Boys and is written from the point of view of a dog, or in this case Rex and Sparky. The book spans 193 pages and 55 chapters covering a number of topics, most meant to be humorous with some useful information. Without further ado, here are the two reviews.

The Dangerous Book For Dogs.
Reviewed By Jonathon Parrish

This book is a very poor parody of the Dangerous Book for Boys. This book is written from a dog's point of view, and covers such subjects as Begging, cats, and what's edible, as well as numerous other subjects. The reason I gave this book a bad review is because of discussion of indecent subjects such as, pooping, creative pee stains and leg humping. The chapters "How to make your owner look like an Idiot" and" How to Ruin the Perfect Dinner Party" are the most inappropriate chapters, as those two chapters talk about all of the worst subjects. The best chapters in the book are "the Epic walks." They cover such subjects as the land bridge between the US and Asia, the story of the Argo and of Chicago. The funniest chapter is definitely "Making Toys out of Household items", it tell how to make toys out of things like socks, chairs, action figures, shower curtains, candles, rugs and sheets/blankets. This book has some funny parts as well as well as some really crude parts. I would most definitely not recommend this book!

 

The Dangerous Book for Dogs (A parody)
By: Rex and Sparky
Reviewed by: Lauren Parrish

I bought this book hoping it would be as good as this companies other books (The Dangerous Book for Boys, The Daring Book for Girls, etc) , but I was vastly disappointed. At the best this book could be said to be mildly funny in some areas. This book is a parody on The Dangerous Book for Boys and has 57 short chapters covering a wide range of subjects all important for a dog to know. I thought it would be funny and entertaining. It was entertaining but had a high content of crude and crass humor. The chapters on begging and training your human were clean and humorous. But then you would turn the page to read about B***hes (the proper name for female dogs), and how to embarrass your human (including vomiting, passing gas, and “humping “a visitor’s leg.) A dog’s tendency to mate with anything in sight is often mentioned. If these topics could be removed the book would be worth reading. The chapters on “A connoisseur’s guide to shoes” or “Things you can chase” are very funny. Historical dogs are covered including Balto and “Peg Leg Petey, The Pirate Dog” and topics such as literature from a dog’s view, and constellations. If this book could lose the crude humor and gross topics it would be an entertaining read. Sadly, I would not recommend this book to anyone.