How dogs live, captured with humor and joy

When sporting events were put on hold in March 2020, BBC commentator Andrew Cotter shifted to working from home. The one-on-one competitors? His two Labrador retrievers, Olive and Mabel. In the videos that ensued, the dogs engage in various contests, from bone-snatching and breakfast-eating to crushing it on the dog walk, while Cotter narrates to hilarious effect.

Filled with stories about how Cotter fell in love with his dogs, his passion for hiking with them through the glens and over the peaks of his native Scotland, and the “competitive fire” lit between Olive and Mabel during quarantine, the memoir is by turns side-splittingly funny and thoughtfully tender. It’s sure to resonate with all dog lovers.

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