Joint Custody

Cute quick read about Gatz the border collie, who is trying to get his owners back together again after they split due to seemingly irreconcilable differences, resulting in the titular joint custody. The plot doesn't quite go where you expect it, but the human characters have as much depth as Roger and Anita from [b:The 101 Dalmations 33382441 The 101 Dalmations Walt Disney Company https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1481670950l/33382441.SX50.jpg 1211506]. And I know you have to just abandon any semblance of reality when your book uses a first-person canine narrator, but I couldn't quite get over the fact that Gatz has read F. Scott Fitzgerald and can develop a complex plan to get his owners in the same room, but he refers to them as The Man and The Woman instead of by name (yes, he says he wasn't paying attention when they introduced themselves. He didn't hear either of them use their names in the 3+ years that the story covers?). There's a sequel in the works, but what I'd really like is the same story told by a cat: My owners broke up. Is someone still planning to feed me? Great, no problem. (please don't @ me, I'm a long time cat lover, but you know it's true.)