'A Pug's Guide to Etiquette' by Gemma Correll

As a pug owner of over five years now to sisters Violet and Daisy, I can honestly say that this book by Gemma Correll is the most honest portrayal of pug life of any I've ever seen.  A Pug's Guide to Etiquette had all of us laughing as we'd read a few pages, point at our pugs and then laugh again.  Seems that all pugs are alike, and truly are the funniest breed of dog.  No other dog that we've ever owned has seemed more like a human in dog form.   Her drawings are wonderful, very simple and clean.  And the expressions on her pug faces are spot on.  I love this book.

Yes, our dogs lick the air, stand between/on our feet, shed endlessly, have feet that smell of popcorn---though we think ours smelled a bit like tortilla chips as well.  

Correll takes from real life by using her own pugs as inspiration.  And really, that's the only way to do it since I had no idea pugs were so adorable and addictive until we got ours.  Pug owners truly are kindred spirits.  Nobody else can really get it.

Thank you Gemma Correll for telling the world how glorious pug ownership is.  After this book gets out in public we might just experience a pug shortage.  

More of Gemma's work can be found at her website at GemmaCorrell, and on her Facebook page.

A Pug's Guide to Etiquette by Gemma Correll is published by Dog 'n' Bone at £9.99 and is available from www.cicobooks.com

(i received this book free to review from CICObooks)