@bright.ton42 wrote:Yes my Rudi always came when he was called. I'd stand out in the backyard feeling like a dill yelling Rudi Rudi and he
would eventually appear. He knew his name. Now my dogs - there are 3 here at the moment (minding one) and I will call one and they all come running lol.
Dogs are such loyal and loving creatures, Bright.
I'm reading a good book at the moment, The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle", it's an absolutely gripping story set around a family specialising in dog breeding etc. The author spends a lot of time on dog love, obedience and loyalty.
Review by Stephen King:
"I flat-out loved The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Dog-lovers in particular will be riveted by this story, because the canine world has never been explored with such imagination or emotional resonance. Yet in the end, this isn't a novel about dogs or heartland America — although it is a deeply American work of literature. It's a novel about the human heart, and the mysteries that live there, understood but impossible to articulate. Yet in the person of Edgar Sawtelle, a mute boy who takes three of his dogs on a brave and dangerous odyssey, Wroblewski does articulate them, and splendidly. I closed the book with that regret readers feel only after experiencing the best stories: It's over, you think, and I won't read another one this good for a long, long time.
In truth, there has never been a book quite like The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. I thought of Hamlet when I was reading it (of course... and in this version, Ophelia turns out to be a dog named Almondine), and Watership Down, and The Night of the Hunter, and The Life of Pi — but halfway through, I put all comparisons aside and let it just be itself.
I'm pretty sure this book is going to be a bestseller, but unlike some, it deserves to be. It's also going to be the subject of a great many reading groups, and when the members take up Edgar, I think they will be apt to stick to the book and forget the neighborhood gossip.
Wonderful, mysterious, long and satisfying: readers who pick up this novel are going to enter a richer world. I envy them the trip. I don't reread many books, because life is too short. I will be rereading this one."
Somehow, doesn't seem appropriate in a Cat Rules Thread, in fact a cat is only mentioned once in the whole book! 
But cats can't have it all, can they?
