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by Gwynneth Mary Lovas (Author)
"... amusing, intelligent, and entertaining..." (Andrea Koschade, Editor, Capital Shepherd News, Ottawa, Mar/Apr 2017) Lucy Olsen, GSD, the precocious German Shepherd Dog featured in The Retirement Diaries(R), has taken it upon herself to write the world's first German Shepherd Dog "self-help" book. SPECIAL FEATURE: Includes the lyrics to "The German Shepherd Dog Song"! Full of hilarious advice on everything from choosing an appropriate name for yourself when your Master has named you "Cupcake" or "Bubbles", to farting etiquette and table manners. Lucy just wants to help every German Shepherd Dog understand how to be a good German Shepherd Dog, and live up to the intended design of their creator, Max von Stephanitz: "Remarkable in his unswerving loyalty to his master, irrepressible in his high spirits, never idle, always in motion, good-natured but not a flatterer, a constant pleasure to the eye..." Her solution? In How To Be A Good German Shepherd Dog, Lucy provides guidance to her fellow GSDs on all matters related to general social conduct and establishes a four-part Code of Conduct for those GSDs seeking to be enrolled in her new organization, the International Order of German Shepherd Dogs. Also includes excepts from "Dear Lucy", Lucy's advice column for German Shepherd Dogs. If you love the unique personality of German Shepherd Dogs, you will want this on your book shelf.
Author Biography
Gwynneth Mary Lovas is the author of Canadian Military Law: Morale and Welfare Operations (Carswell, 2013) and The Retirement Diaries(R) (2016). She has been a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 1982, and spent the last twelve years of her legal career as a Department of Justice Senior Counsel providing advice to the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces. She currently works as a writer, lecturer and consultant, and owns and operates theretirementfairy.com, a web site dedicated to providing humorous retirement cards and gifts, and theretirementdiaries.com, a web site dedicated to humorous retirement stories based on her novel The Retirement Diaries(R) and on Lucy's advice column for German Shepherd Dogs.
