The Domestic Dog

A book of wildly varying quality with a huge amount of repetition (one could easily cut out 1/3rd of the book without losing any content). It's a collection of independent chapters about about half of which are good.

Chapter 13 by Lynette A. Hart and Mariko Yamamoto was notably so bad I wanted to throw out the book and give it 1 star. It's a mixture of infantile observations – like the fact that dogs are good companions because they can't speak so they can't offer opinions, how deep! – and ablist views of people with disabilities.