And, oh my - homoeroticism much??? (the cover, the cover!) :) Quite!

I suppose I was being a bit careless with Connie Willis and dogs, as I kind of include the other dog-like animals in the category with the dogs... By 'dog-like', I probably mean only not-cats, as good spec-fic cats are hardly worthy of mention. The fire monkeys in Promised Land are very lovable and the horse in Lincoln's Dreams... I was reading that when my mother's last dog was put down -- well, you can imagine.