Dog Lover's Companion to New England The Inside Scoop on Where to Take Your Dog

Inu and George consider taking care of their owners, Chris Lau and JoAnna Downey, to be a very serious, full-time job. It's their duty to wake them up and ensure they get plenty of exercise, see the world in a different way, and make new friends. They decided that writing this book was a way to accomplish all these tasks with one big swat of the paw. George is a "cannardly" dog (which means you can hardly tell what kind of dog he is), but people who insist on more limiting categories claim he must be a bearded collie, a Tibetan terrier, a puli, or a Portuguese water dog-in other words, a cannardly. For the most part, George shuns these labels and just considers himself a Canis familiaris (commonly known as a "dog"). While residing at Buddy Dog, an animal shelter, he picked JoAnna out of the multitudes, decided she looked like the perfect meal ticket, and hitched a ride home. When he's not out sniffing trails and gathering information for his budding writing career, George likes to chase squirrels and bark at weird people. Inu is proud of his heritage and carries his golden retriever lineage with style. Although an enormously social animal, Inu loves the solitude of the Great Outdoors-a taste he developed while living in the Berkshires for the first three years of his life. Then, needing a home and deciding city life would provide the attention he so dearly loves, he traveled to Boston and adopted Chris Lau. Although Inu loves calling the streets of Beacon Hill his own, he still heeds the call of the wild and is ready to travel at a moment's notice. When not out swimming or riding the surf, Inu can be found on the Boston Common working the crowd and looking for free pats, food, and adulation. JoAnna and Chris have been friends ever since George and Inu introduced them on the Boston Common more than eight years ago. When they aren't arguing about the demise of baseball and whether or not the Red Sox will ever win a World Series, JoAnna is a playwright/screenwriter who contributes the monthly Canine Traveler column to Dog Fancy magazine, and Chris works as a systems analyst. They are also the authors of The Dog Lover's Companion to Boston and The Dog Lover's Companion to New York City.Downey, JoAnna is the author of 'Dog Lover's Companion to New England The Inside Scoop on Where to Take Your Dog', published 0009 under ISBN 9781566915410 and ISBN 1566915414.