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Is your dog enjoying more than physical exercise when you walk him?

Brian Sewell, who has owned 17 canines, tells of his strange habits in Sleeping with Dogs

19 October 2013

9:00 AM

19 October 2013

9:00 AM

Sleeping with Dogs Brian Sewell

Quartet, pp.134, £12.50, ISBN: 9780704373259

Skip this book if you dislike dogs, or even if you are indifferent to them, or echo an acquaintance of Brian Sewell’s who told him: ‘We expected better of you than such silly, sentimental anthropomorphism.’ If you are such a person, you will be horrified by Sewell’s habits — starting with the one of the title (sometimes he sleeps with four dogs together).

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