6/1/2023 0 Comments Docxtor dog![]() The dogs’ primary tool for these medical feats? Their astonishingly sensitive noses, which can sniff in parts per trillion, as well as in 3-D, and their brains are well equipped to make sense of scents. In Doctor Dogs: How Our Best Friends Are Becoming Our Best Medicine (Dutton - Penguin Random House), now in paperback, New York Times bestselling author Maria Goodavage reveals the fascinating ways dogs are saving lives every day in their emerging roles as “doctor dogs” and-in new, exclusive pages- how these dogs are training to detect COVID-19 to slow or stop the spread of the pandemic. Most of the work being done now is to teach them the scent and determine their accuracy, but two countries are already successfully using dogs to screen incoming passengers at airports. They’re behind the scenes, working for treats and toys, as they sniff out the scent of the pandemic all over the world: the United States, England, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Australia, Chile, Spain, Finland, the UAE, Bahrain, Lebanon, and more. Good for: modern thriller readers who like rollercoaster momentum and fast-paced escapades fans of Sedaris-like, Colbert-ish and other intelligent and ironic comedy lovers of classics with lush language, by authors like Dickens and Shakespeare and, of course, people who like their boats and the sea.At this minute, somewhere in the world, enthusiastic dogs are detecting COVID-19. ![]() I really did laugh out loud and I've kept it on my shelf through one move already, so it's one I can recommend. Or be more restrained than I was - it's also a book you can dip into now and then and not lose the thread of the over-arching theme or characters. Although doing that can sometimes reveal a sameness in a short story writer's tongue, so I generally pace myself when reading collections, this was like eating a superlative candy.you know you should pace yourself but each one tastes pretty much as good as the last. Some stories are better than others, of course, but you don't need to have caution when reading them in quick succession. After awhile you stop questioning where he finds the inventiveness and just go along for the ride. The stories launch with the improbable and just get zanier from there. What you wouldn't give to be in that pub by the end of this book. Hall never falters in capturing the cadences and deadpan humor of his narrator, making Doctor Dogsbody's voice one you long to hear in your ear not just read on the page. There's such witty storytelling and indelible characters in these short stories - it reads like a nautically-themed David Sedaris. Then I couldn't put it down.ĭoctor Dogbody's Leg was the kind of book that makes you read passages out loud to your long-suffering spouse, haplessly trying to play a war game on his Wii, just so you have someone to laugh with. But someone in my neighborhood put it out in a box of other books and the front cover was well-designed enough (I judge by covers, so sue me) to halt me in my speed-walk to the subway, so I picked it up. ![]() Not a real high-seas-lark reader typically. ![]() This is not the type of book I would normally look for or respond to if I simply saw its blurb on a back cover or website. Can I please call this "a ripping yarn"? Pleeease? I've wanted to use that term ever since reading pirate stories as a kid and am delighted to find a book that actually merits it.
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