Tails Don't Lie 2: A Pack of Dog Cartoons

by Adrian Raeside (Illustrator)

A dog's tail is incredibly versatile. They use them to communicate everything from the furious, full-body wiggling "I'm so happy to see you I could burst!" to the tucked-under-the-bum "N-O-O-O! Is that the vet's office we're pulling up to?" They also keep noses warm on cold nights and conveniently sweep food off coffee tables.


Tails Don't Lie 2 is Adrian Raeside's hilarious follow-up to the bestselling Tails Don't Lie (Harbour Publishing, 2013), collecting even more of his favourite cartoons featuring our four-legged hairy scroungers. This new volume explores important canine traits like why dogs covet the driver's seat, what would happen if dogs went on space missions (do aliens have dogs?), the humiliation of tail docking, the immense importance of trees to a dog, and the eternal question of why squirrel-chasing isn't included in dog agility courses.


Containing 340 full-colour cartoons, Tails Don't Lie 2 offers a unique window into the mind of the family pet that will have readers howling.

128 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 2017

Reviews

[Hákon Gunnarsson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked this book. The comics in it aren’t all laugh out loud funny, there are some that are too focused on telling the reader to adopt a dog to be really funny, but even there I find the message so right that I don’t mind it. I’ve had four dog by now, and one of them was a rescue, a little dog that had had four or five homes by the time I got him, but I couldn’t have asked for a more loving dog. Back to the book. It is funny most of the time, and it is very much a dog owner humor, stuff that the dogs do that dog owners are familiar with, like the eternal sniffing during walks. But there is also humor based on fantasy rather than reality, like two dog talking about a mystery novel, The Case of the Missing Biscuit, one is reading. Just a lovely book for dog people. I’m definitely reading more of Adrian Raeside’s work.

[Dawn Kravagna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Comic strip collection sure to delight dog lovers. Laugh out loud funny. I like how the cartoonist has several different dog owners and companions, rather than focusing on only one owner and pet. Lots of fun.

A nice surprise that all of the comic strips colored, even though the weekly strips are printed in the newspapers (here in the USA, anyway) in black-and-white.