Dog Spelled Backwards: Soulful Writing by Literary Dog Lovers

by Mordecai Siegal

"To err is human, to forgive canine."
--Anonymous

A classic collection of the best of canine literature celebrating the soulful nature of dogs

In Dog Spelled Backwards , author Mordecai Siegal presents a warm, wise, witty and wonderful collection of writing about the divine nature of dogs from the best of American and English literature and song. Siegal's choices for this compilation are rich and colorful, and contain some of the most knowing and astute writing about dogs ever published. Selections from both fiction and nonfiction, prose and poetry
--"Memoirs of a Yellow Dog" by O. Henry
--"My Buddy" by Murray Weinstock
--"Old Dog Tray" by Stephen Collins Foster
--"To Flush, My Dog" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
--"The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
--"The Power of the Dog" by Rudyard Kipling
--"Three's Company" by Steve Dale

A trusted and respected voice for three decades, Mordecai Siegal has given pet owners advice on selecting, training and caring for the animals in their lives in more than thirty books. Here Siegal has moved from the practical to the pleasurable, writing and compiling a tribute destined to become a classic.

Dog-lovers and literature-lovers alike will welcome Dog Spelled Backwards as a gift of a book to help them understand that sometimes dogs are like furry angels. All that's missing are the wings and the feathers.

304 pages, Hardcover

First published August 7, 2007

About the author

Mordecai Siegal authored numerous pet books and wrote pet columns for House Beautiful, Good Housekeeping, Women's World, and goodnewsforpets.com. Often the master of ceremonies at pet events, Mordecai was an entertaining public speaker as well as a writer.

Mr. Siegal had a caller-interview radio show, Vets and Pets, on WNYC.

He was a founding member of the Cat Writers' Association and president emeritus of the Dog Writers' Association of America (DWAA).