Weekends With Daisy

Locations
Call Number: 636.708 Lu
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	636.708 Lu	4-week checkout	On Shelf

A volunteer service dog trainer discusses her relationships with an endearing yellow Labrador puppy and its felon partner in the Prison PUP program, describing coming to terms with the inmate's past and the program's requirement to release the dog after training.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

good topic, meh writing submitted by 21621031390949 on June 19, 2017, 8:31pm I love dogs, have worked with therapy dogs and I'm a social worker, so this book looked great to me. What could be better than a story of training a service dog within a prison rehabilitation program? Well, a story with a little more insight and better writing would be better.

I found myself disliking the author after a while because of her self-deprecating and superficial musings about her family. Her husband and children weren't central to the story and they weren't developed as characters, so it felt like intrusions when they were brought into the story.

Still, I read the book to the end, and enjoyed it mostly. I learned something about dog training, and so I would recommend it - not as great literature, but as an interesting story.